Re-Interpreting Alienation in Modern American Literature

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About the book

Since literature is a mirror of society, it is directly or indirectly engaged with contemporary social, political and economic realities. Alienation is a theme that finds its expression in works of literature since time immemorial. In the 21st century, the theme acquires a greater relevance due to various factors that impact human life and lead to crises in an individual. Hence this study has been undertaken to study the concept of alienation as developed by Melvin Seamen. The book focuses how alienation shapes the life and destiny of an individual and how the individual faces and resolves/reconciles himself/herself to his/her predicament. The present book “Re-interpreting Alienation in Modern American Literature” is a re-production of my thesis “Exploring Alienation in the Select Works of Salinger, Lee, Lerner and Saunders”. The research analyzed the following works: The Cathcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951), To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (1960), Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner (2011) and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017). The novels selected for this research have been published in the 1950s and after.

About the author

Dr. Deepa Sehrawat has been a gold medalist at the postgraduate level, a doctoral student of English literature at Banasthali Vidyapith; an avid reader, writer and an Assistant Professor by profession. Her interests include drawing, reading, writing, and blogging. She has been contributing blogs, articles, stories and poems in various journals, magazines and other online platforms since her teens. She has published around 17 research papers and chapters in national and international journals and books. She has also been appointed as a Global Ambassador by Black Avait Publishing House. She is an editor at Journal of Linguistics, Languages and Literary Studies, LC International Journal of STEM, The Creative Launcher, and Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences and Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kenya. She also works as a Grammar and Language Expert at Brainaura; freelancer content writer at Jamboree and IELTS Trainer at eMaster.She has authored “Reminiscence” in 2021 and co-authored “Printed Dreamscape” and “Whisper of Hearts” in 2020 & 2019. She is a regular columnist at Crime Spark Magazine for Women, contributed blogs for Economic Policy Group (Registered under MHRD, Govt of India). She is certified in “Rhetorics: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking” from Harvard University (through EDX), in “Creative Writing” from Internshala and in “Trauma and Literature” from SWAYAM.She is also involved in delivering online lectures on research and social issues and conducted workshops for the underprivileged section of society at NGOs.|| Geetha Yadav has been working as an Associate Professor at Banasthali Vidyapith in the Department of English & Modern European Languages since 2005. She has an experience of 23 years of teaching at UG and PG level including five years of M.Phil(ELT). She is also guiding research scholars for Ph.D. She has attended and presented several papers at various national and international seminars and conferences. She has delivered invited lectures at various institutions and has been a member of the Board of Studies of some institutions. She has published 10 papers in various anthologies. Her field of interest and research include Narratology, Indian Writing in English, Translation Studies.