Mirrors and Lamps: Global Perspectives
Published by
Department of English
Osmania University
Hyderabad
Under SAP DRS-1
ISBN:978 98 83038 15 2, 2014
Paperback Rs. 350
Mirrors and Lamps: Global Perspectives, edited by Nibir K. Ghosh and A. Karunaker, brings together writers, academics and scholars from various parts of the world to discuss and deliberate on issues and concerns central to the human predicament through different times and climes. Be it the sphere of the racial dilemma, diasporic ambivalence or a simple but determined effort to negotiate domestic space, one cannot miss the resonant voice of change that emphatically articulates how “poetry” can and does make everything happen! The creative and critical renderings that appear in this collection may mirror the stark reality of calamities, conflicts and apocalypses but they also inspire us to believe that lamps of compassion, peace, harmony and brotherhood will ultimately dispel the darkness that surrounds us on all sides.
The book is undeniably enriched by Sandeep K. Arora’s elegant cover graphics.
CONTENTS
Mirrors and Lamps – Nibir K. Ghosh
The Enduring Kinship of Literature and Philosophy – Charles Johnson
Trust the Tale; Trust the Body: D.H. Lawrence Revisited – Jonah Raskin
Richard Wright: Beyond the Harlem Renaissance – Amritjit Singh
History, Morality, Characterization, and the Draft Riots: Peter Quinn’s Banished Children of Eve – James R. Giles
A Novel Advance in Morality: Rorty and Steinbeck – Richard E. Hart
Explaining the Ineffable – David Ray
Of Hyacinths and Biscuits: Reflections on Poetry – Shanta Acharya
Give to the World the Best You Have: Conversation with
Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui – Sunita Rani & Nibir K. Ghosh
Yvor Winters: An Appreciation – Wanda H. Giles
Decentring the Centre: Narrative Strategies in Mehr Nigar Masroor’s Shadows of Time and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers – Seema Malik
“The Color Line: An Enduring Arbiter of Human Worth”: Conversation with Joseph Jordan – Nibir K. Ghosh
Creativity and Politics of Representation: Tribal Literature in Northeast India – Sukalpa Bhattacharjee
Partition:A Permanent Scar – Shekhar Varma
The Awakening: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – Sohrab Sharma
“Why Are You Crying We Are Sisters”: Women Redefined – Seema Shekhar
Print Medium and Language: A Review of Learning Skills – Raichel M. Sylus
Moving Left to the Autobahn Blues (Short Story) – Michael Boylan
La Otra (Short Story) – Kathleen Alcalá
The Gifts (Poem) – Judy Ray
A Lie that Tells the Truth (Review Essay) – Sushil Gupta