Dr. E. Raja Rao

Professor, English.

Email:  prof_rajarao@rediffmail.com

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JOURNAL PAPERS/SEMINARS :

  1. Beyond Protest: A Critical Examination of Contemporary African American Fiction. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 1993.

  2. Ed. Indo-Canadian Relations: Future Perspectives (Proceedings of the National Seminar). Berhampur: Centre for Canadian Studies, 1993.

  3. Ed. The India-Canada Transactions: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature, Politics, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, Gender Issues and Trade Relations (Proceedings of the National Seminar). Berhampur: Centre for Canadian Studies, 1995.

  4. Ed. Sons and Lovers. Sage Publications, 2008 (Under Press).

RESEARCH ARTICLES PUBLISHED :

  1. “The Prophetic Myth of Ishmael Reed,” Journal of Literary Studies (UtkalUniv.) 3, 1 (June 1980).

  2. “Absurdity in Cyrus Colter’s World,” B.J.B. Review 1, 1 (1981-82).

  3. “The Black Aesthetic Tradition: A Study of Contemporary Black American Fiction,” B.J.B. Review 1, 2 (1984).

  4. “The Pussy Under the Veil: A Feminist Study of Upendra Bhanja’s Chaupadi “What Manliness you Manage, My Love!” Bhanja Smaranika 21 (1990).

  5. “The Moral Frontiers in American Literature,” Journal of Literary Studies 14, 2 (1990).

  6. “New Perspectives in Black Feminist Criticism” Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies 8 (1990-91).

  7. “The Black Black Humor and Charles Wright’s The Wig,” The Journal of Literature and Criticism 1 (1991-92).

  8. “Upendra Bhanja’s chaupadis and the Male Gaze,” Bhanja Smaranika 23 (1993).

  9. “Audrey Thomas’s Latakia and Kamala Das’s My Story: A Feminist Analysis,” Proceedings of the National Seminar on Indo-Canadian Relations: Future Perspectives, 1993.

  10. “African-American Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Marginality with special Reference to Toni Morrison,” Indian Journal of American Studies 23, 2 (Sum. 1993).

  11. “The Story Tells (Writes) Itself: An Interview with Saros Cowasjee,” Literature and Criticism 2, 1&2 (1992-93).

  12. “The Indian Diaspora in Saros Cowasjee’s Fiction” Journal of Literary Studies 18, 1&2 (1993).

  13. “Susan Musgrave’s Charcoal Burners: A Parody of Feminism,” Proceedings of the National Seminar-cum-Workshop on Canada and India (The India-Canada Transactions) (1996).

  14. “ ‘Live Sparrow’ vs. ‘Stuffed Eagle’: A Study of the Problematics of Translation in Upendra Bhanja’s Chaupadis,” Bhanja Smaranika 28 (1997).

  15. “The Problems of Language,” Festschrift in honour of Prof. Mohit K. Ray, Former Professor of English, Burdwan University (2005).

  16. “Indo-Canadian Families: Challenges and Opportunities in the Pluralistic Societies of Canada and India,” Family in the 20th Century: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Indo-Canadian Families, Centre for Canadian Studies, Berhampur University (2008).