Of Centres And Margins Issues And Conflicts

The Book Concentrates On Postcolonial And Gender Studies From The Perspective Of Centre-Margin Conflict. Post The Grand Political Design Of Colonialism, Europe Positioned Itself As The Centre Of Art, Culture, Science And Intellect. This Political Stance Wanted To Create The Image Of Europe As The Standard In The Process Of Knowledge Production. The Postcolonial Studies Questioned This Centering Politics Of European Knowledge Production And Putting The Colonised To The Margins. Similarly, Feminists Questioned The Aesthetic And Political Representations That Put The Male At The Centre. The Marxists Interrogated The Centering Of The Bourgeois And Class Politics To Put The Subalterns At The Margins. The Book Looks Into These Issues By Applying Various Literary And Cultural Theories On Literary Texts, Both Narrative And Visual, To Study The Issue Of The Centre-Margin Conflict. The Centre Itself Is A Contested Site In Postcolonial, Gender And Marxist Studies, Questioning The Centrality Of Race, Nation, Gender And Class. However, In Postmodern Praxis, The Centre-Margin Dialectics Move Towards A More Fluid Dynamics Where Both The Centre And The Margin Obfuscate Towards A Kinetics Of Plural Dimensions. The Deconstructionists Like Derrida Construct The Notion Of Infinite Deferment Of The Centre To The Point Where The Centre Moves Into Its Own Absolution. The Book Will Look Into These Issues Through Theoretical Lens Applied On Literary Texts, Ranging From Authors Like Chinua Achebe And Eavan Boland To William Shakespeare And Mahasweta Devi.