In Godzilla’s® Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
 Introduction  (Shweta Rao Garg, Deepti Gupta)....Pages 1-5
 Comparative Literature in India in the Twenty-first Century  (Avadhesh Kumar Singh)....Pages 7-30
 Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said  (Fakrul Alam)....Pages 31-47
 Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing  (Somdatta Mandal)....Pages 49-71
 Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the Sociocultural Milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English  (Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry)....Pages 73-89
 Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil Identity  (G. J. V. Prasad)....Pages 91-100
 Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider  (Shormishtha Panja)....Pages 101-109
 Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of South Kamrup  (Jaiwanti Dimri)....Pages 111-124
 Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors  (Suraj Gunwant, Rashmi Gaur)....Pages 125-138
 Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers  (Nilanjana Ghosal, Srirupa Chatterjee)....Pages 139-151
 Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry  (M. L. Raina)....Pages 153-165
 Critique of Normality in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree  (Sanjoy C K, Gurumurthy Neelakantan)....Pages 167-183
 The Personal Is Political: Slavery, Trauma, and the White Man’s Legacy  (Lekha Roy)....Pages 185-196
 Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the No-Man’s Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni  (Deepti Gupta, Sumeet Brar)....Pages 197-204
 Food Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women Writers  (Shweta Rao Garg)....Pages 205-213
 Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in Jack Davis’s No Sugar  (Hem Raj Bansal)....Pages 215-232
 Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin  (Urjani Chakravarty)....Pages 233-241
 Institutional Discourses, Technology-Mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective  (Atanu Bhattacharya, Preet Hiradhar)....Pages 243-263
 Building Reputational Bridges Over Crises Situations  (Asha Kaul, Avani Desai)....Pages 265-284
 Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata  (B. N. Patnaik)....Pages 285-292
Back Matter ....Pages 293-317