Edited by Banibrata Mahanta and Rajesh Babu Sharma
Publisher: Springer (Singapore, 2019). ISBN 978-981-13-1524—4
Reviewed by
Himadri Lahiri
Professor, Department of English, Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, India. Email: hlahiri@gmail.com
Volume 12, Number 4, July-September, 2020 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.22
In the context of the changing times and gradual evolution of what we know now as ‘New Humanities’, it is time for us to re-evaluate the role of English studies. As the hangover of colonial ideological control and the reigns of ‘universal truths’ waned and as new generations of students, teachers and academic administrators took control of the discipline, English studies began to face new ideological and pedagogical challenges. Moreover, the perception that the study of Humanities does not have much utilitarian values and hence government funds should be diverted to the study of science and technology has put English studies in a precarious condition. At a time when the academic fraternity is wrestling with discursive questions on textual-methodological orientations, pedagogical experimentations and innovative teaching-learning designs in order to sail through the adversity, the publication of the book under review is a welcome event…Full Text PDF>>