Rana Nayar is Professor and Chairperson at the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. The recipient of a Sahitya Akademi prize for translation and a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, Nayar’s main areas of interest include theatre, translation studies, and literary and cultural theory. He has translated several modern classics of Punjabi literature into English, and has acted in and directed over twenty theatre productions. Among his other publications are Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relationships and Breathing Spaces, a collection of poems.

Preface
Author’s Acknowledgements

Prologue: Notes towards the History/Theory of Genres
Reading Indian and Indian English Literatures
1. Locating/Dis-locating Indian Literatures: A Metacritical Narrative
2. Re-contextualising the Post-1980s Indian Novel in English
3. Emerging Trends in Post-Independence Indian English Drama
Punjabi Literature: Some Contexts and Texts
4. Punjabi Literature through the Prism of History
5. The Novel as a Site of Cultural Memory: Gurdial Singh’s Parsa
6. Atamjit Singh’s Kamloops Dian Macchian: Polyphonic Discourse and Dramatic Art
7. Narratives of Dispersal: Reading Raghbir Dhand’s Stories
8. Postcolonial Katha: Continuities and Ruptures in Videshi Punjabi Short Fiction
Reading Translation(s)
9. Author as Translator: Paradigms and Possibilities in the Indian Context
10. Punjabi and English: Mediating the History of Language, Literature and Translation
11. Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas: Multiple Historical Perspectives and Literary Art
12. Mahasweta Devi’s Hajar Churashir Ma: A Narrative of Healing
Power, Hegemony and Mass Media: Case Studies in Popular Consciousness
13. Of Language, Consciousness and Mass Media
14. Of Influence, Power and Empowerment
15. Of Little Magazines in Punjabi: A Historical Overview
16. Class, Ideology and Politics of Globalisation: A Case Study of Aravind Adiga
Epilogue: Rediscovering Humanities in Life and Literature