South Asian Literature in Focus
About the Book Series
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 ([email protected]; [email protected]), Puspa Damai ([email protected]), Payel Pal ([email protected]), and Deimantas Valančiūnas ([email protected]).
Seeing Indian Women: Comics, Graphic Novels and Transmedia Illustrations
1st Edition
By Nilakshi Goswami
July 24, 2026
Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized. Drawing on a decade of ...
Queer Intersectionality: Voices, Struggles, and Identities in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Nizara Hazarika, Namrata Pathak
July 20, 2026
Queer Intersectionality is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and diversities of the queer communities and their lived experiences in South Asia. By focusing on the intersectional lenses of gender, caste, class, religion, and regional identity, it presents a nuanced understanding of ...
Spectre of Scarcity and Hunger: Indian Literature and the Idea of Famine
1st Edition
Edited
By Shubhanku Kochar, Shehnaz Kabir
July 10, 2026
This book explores Indian English writing and English translations of Indian works through the framework of the famine. It examines literary representations of famine across time from ancient and medieval India to colonial and contemporary times. The essays in the volume contribute to the ...
Nation and Nationalism in South Asian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Goutam Karmakar, Nukhbah Taj Langah
July 03, 2026
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and secularism in South Asia is frequently determined ...
The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Edited
By Somasree Sarkar, Agnibha Maity
September 30, 2025
This book initiates a dialogue between two discursive fields of study: the Anthropocene and the Subaltern Studies. It highlights communities that bear the brunt of climate precarity and planetary crises and examines critiques of the Anthropocene discourse for grossly overlooking the subaltern ...
River Fiction of India: Intersectional Flows of Narratives, Geographies, and Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Subhadeep Ray
March 31, 2025
This book establishes river fiction as an identifiable genre-fiction. It argues that rivers and riverbeds—through myths and legends, ecological and environmental concerns, geographical and historical realities, politics and economics around them—can provide an underlying framework to understand ...