Revolving Around India(s): Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives

Product Description
This book highlights a variety of approaches to the study of contemporary India and offers a transnational, gender and social research perspective on the concepts of Indian tradition, the representation of the Indian diaspora and the emergent political activisms in India. The contributions suggest questions and answers about the various temporal and spatial loci inherent to India and its gender and ethnic differences. The volume analyses different cultural texts, and explores how they refer to equality and interculturality or promote discourses of fear and racism. The multiple viewpoints and analyses found in this volume will broaden and stimulate both upcoming outcomes and studies on the future of India.
About the Author
Juan Ignacio Oliva-Cruz is Professor of Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures at the University of La Laguna, Spain. He has edited The Painful Chrysalis. Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity (2011) and Realidad y simbología de la montaña (2012). Antonia Navarro-Tejero teaches Cultural Studies and South Asian Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain, where she chairs the Permanent Seminar on India Studies. She is currently President of the Spanish Association of Interdisciplinary Studies about India (AEEII). Jorge Diego Sánchez teaches at the University of Salamanca, Spain. His research focuses on postcolonial, gender and cultural studies in India and its diaspora. He has published articles about Sarojini Naidu, Rokeya Hossain, Mira Nair, Aravind Adiga and Jhumpa Lahiri.