Twentieth Century Literature:Emerging Trends

Details of Book: Twentieth Century Literature:Emerging Trends

Book: Twentieth Century literature:Emerging Trends
Author:  Sunita Sinha 
ISBN: 978-81-269-1880-5
Binding: Hardcover 
Publishing Date: 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (p) Ltd. 
Number of Pages: 229

Price: Rs. 795

About the book 

The literary canon of twentieth century illustrates an aesthetic shift marked by a tendency of literature to turn more experimental, more anxious, and more self-questioning. The “two World Wars, the social and political upheavals, the consolidation and expansion of multinational capitalism, the emergence of the information age, the struggle of postcolonial voices after the end of the British Empire, and the changing configuration of a new multicultural population”, have led to a refashioning in the arena of literary studies. 
Encompassing an array of diverse aesthetics, styles and approaches, the essays in Twentieth Century Literature: Emerging Trends aim to discuss the new developments in twentieth century literature, both by embracing new critical paradigms and by re-examining the relationship between the transnational/ cultural, the global and the postcolonial in a rapidly evolving field. The anthology seeks to take up the challenges in twentieth-century literary tradition which have been explored by various writers, interrogating the cultural implications of generic boundaries; by feminist writers rereading gender in conjunction with other categories such as race and class; and by multicultural writers whose work emanates from and approaches the postcolonial situation and reveals new insights into the politics of literary canon formation. It will undoubtedly prove valuable to the teachers and students of English Literature and researchers in this field.