Indian Literature and the World

Rossella Ciocca is Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Naples l'Orientale, Italy. She has worked on early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, colonial and post-colonial history and literature. Her recent works include essays on the Partition of India, Mumbai novels and Tribal literature. She has co-edited Indiascapes: Images and Words from Globalised India (2008) and Parole e culture in movimento La città e le tecnologie mobili della comunicazione (2014). She is currently co-editing a new project with Sanjukta Das Gupta, titled Out of Hidden India: Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visualities and Performances.Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the co-editor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2008). She has published widely on contemporary Indian literature, Frantz Fanon, and anti-colonial cinema. She is completing a book on the cultural history of Italian imperialism and transnational anti-colonial networks. Between 2008 and 2011, she coordinated an international collaboration funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia.