Mapping Literature
Essays on Identity, Conflict, and the Human Condition
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- Author
- Shaleen Kumar Singh
- Publisher
- Akhand Publishing House
- Categories
- Literature
- ISBN
- 9788119098460
- Edition
- 2025
- Format
- Hard Bound
- Size
- Demy
- Pages
- 192
Description
The volume assembles scholarly essays that interrogate literature as a conduit for exploring identity, conflict, and the human condition across diverse cultural and historical contexts. It examines the intimate lyricism of Ocean Vuong, the political urgency of Cheran’s Tamil verse, and the gendered representations of Indian women in male poetry, while also addressing the spiritual geocentrism of indigenous narratives. The collection discusses the notion of a “third theatre” in India, the cultural hues of Hindustan in Justice S. Mohan’s poetry, and the interplay of personal and political in Herta Müller’s prose. It traces the evolution of literary canons through Coetzee’s meditations on the classic, Auden’s musings on love, and the stark realities of conflict and inequality in Aravind Adiga’s fiction. The essays further engage with the cultural trauma of partition in Chaman Nahal’s *Azadi* and the empiricist visions in R. C. Shukla’s poetry, offering a dialogic analysis that bridges the personal and the universal, the historical and the contemporary.