South Asian Literature in Focus

This book series, South Asian Literature in Focus, offers a powerful repository of perspectives on the existent and emergent contours of South Asian socio-cultural, historical, and literary landscapes. This book series aims to examine, in a detailed and categorical way, the literary responses to various diversified issues in South Asia, including the complex history of colonialization, ethnic conflicts, communal clashes, armed conflicts, and forced migrations. This series seeks to explore and identify how critics and scholars can rethink and reimagine South Asia through the theoretical perspectives of interconnectedness, interconnection, and conversations integrating all South Asian countries and cultures, as well as their geographical and political attributes. This series also devotes intellectual attention to the undiscovered and less addressed literatures of South Asia, exploring those in the context of South Asian historiography and scholarship. The series examines both the historical and aesthetic aspects of literature and provides interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to emerging and prevalent themes in South Asian literature, including gender, memory and trauma, climate crisis, sexual orientation, nationalism, religion, and politics, among others.

The series also features works written in South Asian vernacular languages and English, originating from both the subcontinent and the diaspora. The series examines both the historical and aesthetic aspects of literature and provides interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to emerging and prevalent themes in South Asian literature, including gender, memory and trauma, climate crisis, sexual orientation, nationalism, religion, and politics, among others.

The series simultaneously publishes the books in UK/US, India, and e-book formats. The series welcomes submissions from both established scholars in the field and recent graduates/doctoral candidates interested in publishing their first monograph under the guidance of our professional editorial team.

To discuss the aims and scope of your proposed book (authored and edited), and to obtain the complete proposal form, please contact the editors of the series at the following email addresses: Goutam Karmakar (GoutamK@dut.ac.za; goutamkrmkr@gmail.com), Puspa Damai (damai@marshall.edu), Payel Pal (payel.pal@lnmiit.ac.in), and Deimantas Valančiūnas (deimantasval@gmail.com).