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This book tries to critically examine the changing dimensions and criticality of Postcolonial theory and praxis in Indian novels in English, written in the 21st century. In the changing world order and systems, the issues of environment, Diaspora, refugee crisis, individual loneliness and alienation at the political and individual levels are the major issues which Postcolonial theory examines now. The book looks at four majorauthors of the 21st century from India writing novels in English – Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy. They are very different authors in their own rights, and yet they reach a point of singularity where the question of existence and identity coalesce through different parameters of social, political and ideological constructs. The book looks at the issues of environmental crisis, identity crisis, issues of dislocation and alienation and gender trouble as represented in the novels selected for study in this critical collection.

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Nilanjan Chakraborty is currently employed as an Assistant Professor in English in Panchla Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India, affiliated to the University of Calcutta. He also works as a Visiting Faculty in the Post Graduate Department of English in Women's College and Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta. His major publications include: Myth Formation in the Fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh; The Radical, the bourgeois, and the alienated in the city in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others; 'She came home running back to the mothering blackness': Race, Identity and Re-bordering of self in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah; 'How can I stop the life I lead within myself?' Conformity in identity in the short stories of Manoj Das; Myth, History, Identity and the Postcolonial narrative in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God; ""A fool alone will contest the precedence of ancestors and gods"": Anxiety and identity in the use of supernatural through myths in the trilogy of Chinua Achebe.

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