Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature

1. Introduction: Viewing Colonialism and Modernity through Indian Literature
Satya P. Mohanty

Part I. Views from Below: Comparing Literary Perspectives

2. Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Jennifer Harford Vargas

3. Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir Mohan Senapati
Paul L. Sawyer

4. Two Classic Tales of Village India: The Realist Epistemology of Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan

Himansu S. Mohapatra

5. The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and Assamese Literatures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua
Tilottoma Misra

6. The Indigenous Modernity of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir Mohan Senapati
Velcheru Narayana Rao

7. “Why Don’t You Speak?”: The Narrative Politics of Silence in Senapati, Premchand, and Monica Ali
Ulka Anjaria

Part II. The Many Contexts of Six Acres and a Third

8. The Representation of Women and Gender Relations in Six Acres and a Third
Claire Horan

9. Rediscovering Ramachandra Mangaraj and Historicizing Senapati’s Critique of Colonialism
Gaganendra Nath Dash

10. The Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third

Debendra K. Dash, Dipti R. Pattanaik

Keywords: Social Sciences, Ethnicity Studies, Area Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism