Literature and Cinema

Description

This book on Literature and Cinema offers insight into the complexities that attend any understanding of the relationship between literary and cinematic narratives. The essays explore yet underexplored areas in the field of cinematic adaptation of literary texts. The essays examine how gender, caste, and queer politics inform and shape literary texts and how films serve as crucial and pertinent tools of social discourse and interpellation. Using theoretical frameworks from the discipline of cinematic studies, these essays facilitate bringing to the foreground into popular culture the literary texts that have remained marginalised for various socio-political reasons.

Rosy Sinha is an Associate Professor in English at ARSD College, University of Delhi. She completed her Ph.D. from Magadh University, Bodhgaya. Her area of specialisation is diasporic literature. She has published papers on topics closely associate with her research like Rootlessness in V.S. Naipaul’s works, Exploration of Self, Agony of Repatriation etc. Her article on ‘Partitioned Selves’ was recently published in the journal ‘Cafe Dissensus’.

Kamayani Kumar is an Associate Professor of Literature at the Department of English, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi. Her PhD from Department of Humanities of Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, was on children as victims of Partition and transgenerational transmission of trauma. Her area of interest includes partition studies, childhood studies, film studies, trauma studies, and visual narratives on partition. She has published two volumes on childhood trauma, war and disability with Routledge and has many journal articles, book chapters to her credit.