Contents of Volume IV Number i (January 2019)

Transcultural Literature, Nationalism and its Adequacy in World Literatures: Pedagogical Requirements

Keshav Nath <[email protected]>, Manipal University

North Indian Classical Music and the West: The Journey from the Realm of Multicultural to Transcultural

Soumya Goswamy <[email protected]>, Chandernagore College 

Interrogating the Representation of ‘Transculturality’ in Gurinder Chadha’s It’s a Wonderful Afterlife

Jayati Ganguly <[email protected]>, Bidhan Chandra College 

The Precarious Balance: Cultural Dilemma of Acculturation in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag

Rituparna Das <[email protected]>, Jadavpur University 

Diversity in Hybridity: A Quest for (Re)Locating the Self in Kaushik Barua’s Windhorse

Priyanka Chakraborty <[email protected]>, Banaras Hindu University 

The Archive as a Transcultural Contact Zone in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome

Rahul Basu <[email protected]>, The University of Burdwan 

Shrabanti Kundu <[email protected]>, Central University of Gujarat 

Transnational Organized Crime, Islamophobia and Globalization in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Contentions and Contestations

Abhisek Ghosal <[email protected]>, The University of Burdwan 

The Manifestation of Cultural Identity and Transculturation in D.H. Lawrence’s Mornings in Mexico

Soumitra Mukherjee <[email protected]>, Seacom Skills University 

Transnational Women in India

A Review of Indian Videshinis: European Women in India

Dr Ian H. Magedera

Review by

Swati Dasgupta <[email protected]>, University of Delhi

Distinguished Guest Article

Transnationalism and Diaspora: ‘Awkward Dance Partners’?

Himadri Lahiri

Professor of English, Netaji Subhas Open University

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The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation’s Friend: The Turkish Reception of Pierre Loti

Can Bahadır Yüce

Butler University

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The Political Reverberations of Gulf: Reading the Insistence of Arab Spring on Gulf Nationalism

Jithin Joseph

Central University of Tamil Nadu

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Transnationalism in Diasporic Context: African Woman in Gwendolen by Buchi Emecheta

Dr Sujarani Mathew

K E College, Mannanam

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Transculturalism and Culinary Fiesta in Adeola Osunkojo’s The Life of a Nigerian Couple

Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah & Damilare Ogunmekan

University of Ilorin

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Tiddaism: Negotiating Aboriginality and the Experiences of the Australian Aboriginal Woman in a Cross-Cultural Context

Payel Paul

Kulti College

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Negotiating ‘Space’ and ‘Belonging’:  Reconstructing Transnational Discourse of the Refugees through Graphic Narrative in Over Under Sideways Down by Karrie Fransman

Modhura Bandyopadhyay

Jamini Mazumder Memorial College

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Travel and Travel Writing in a Globalized World: A Reading of Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul

Subarna Bhattacharya

Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce

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Testing the Boundaries of Provincialism: IPL’s Transnational Spectacles and Pure Play

Puspa Damai

Marshall University

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Food, Memory and Everyday Transnationalism in Chitrita Banerji’s Culinary Memoirs

Sucharita Sarkar

D.T.S.S College of Commerce

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Majma‘-ul-Baḥrain: Transcending Cultural Boundaries in the Quest for “Truth of Truths”

Gargi Bhattacharya

Visva-Bharati

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“Tipu Sultan: the most famous Indian in Paris before Gandhi and Tagore…”: A Transnational Critique of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ in Twenty-First Century World Heritage Site Discourse using French Drama on Tipu and the Fortress of Srirangapatna from 1788 to 1949

Ian H. Magedera

University of Liverpool

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Interview

“Cosmopolitan Sensibility… the Best Way to Describe Me”: An Interview with Kunal Basu

Interview by

Sanchari Mitra & Jati Sankar Mondal

Sidho Kanho Birsha University 

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Book Review

A Review of The Strength to Say No: One Girl’s Fight against Forced Marriage

Mouhssine Ennaimi with Rekha Kalindi; New Delhi: Vikings by Penguin Books India; 2015; ISBN: 978-0-670-08854-6

Review by

Divya. P

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit

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