Includes bibliographical references and index.

Textualizing social discourse. Science and Literature: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore's Music / Partha S Ghose ; Rabindranath Tagore's Philosophy of Art and Literature / Goutam Biswas ; The New Comparative Literature 'To Come' as a Critique of Cosmopolitanism / Sourav Kargupta ; Islam and Theodicy: A Critique of Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood's Theological Approach to Evil / Mohammad Maroof Shah ; Suturing of Selves Past: The Body in Revolution / Anirban Das ; Literature, Society and the Calling of Creative Public Spheres: Beyond Adaptation and Meditative Verbs of Transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri. -- II: Textuality and representations. Enugula Veeraswamy's Journal: A Study / Mohan G Ramanan ; Kafka : Literature, Law and language / Franson Davis Manjali ; Understanding Tribal World View: A Painter's Perspective / Sujata Miri ; Reiterating Stereotypes: Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra / Somdatta Mandal ; The Reinterpretation of Historical Trauma: Three Films about Partition / M K Raghavendra ; Identity and Politics in the Songs of Contemporary African American Women / Ellerine Diengdoh. -- III: Societies, literature and the ethnic life-world. Society and Literature in Northeast India: Articulating Marginality / Kailash C Baral ; Transcribing Orality: A Study of Ki Jingsneng Tymmen / Esther Syiem ; The Interface of Mizo Society and Literature / Margaret Ch Zama ; Folklore and Folk Traditions as a Cohesive in Nepali Community in India / Utpala Ghaley Sewa ; Singing The Nation: Pratima Pandey Barua, The Princess of the Lost Lores / Jyotirmoy Prodhani ; The Revenant in Some Urban Legends of Shillong / Desmond L Kharmawphlang ; Inter-Community Relations in Medieval Bengal As Reflected in Contemporary Bengali Vernacular Literature / Muhammad Shah Noorur Rahman.