NILAK DATTA

PUBLICATIONS

1.      Nilak Datta (October 2022). “Post-Truth Live: A Case Study of Peepli Live (2010).” In Post-Truth: Phenomenon, Impact, Consequences. Ed. M. Asaduddin. Pencraft International. Pp. 178-195. ISBN 978-93-82178-41-5

2.      Nilak Datta and Neha Yadav ( February 2022). “Pandemic Woes, Undead Foes: A Case Study of the CDC’s Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel” MEJO: The Melow Journal of World Literature. Illness, Healing and the Literary Imagination. Vol 6. ISSN: 2581-5768. DOI: 10.21659/mejo22.v8n3. pp. 196- 206.

3.      Nilak Datta (July 2021). “The American Frontier, Masculine Nationalism and Tourist Imaginaries: Sight-Marking Literature on Daniel Boone in the Long Nineteenth-Century”. Revue Française d’études américaines. Special Issue. Tourist Imaginaries and Practices: Issues in Identity and Memory. Vol 3. Issue 168. Pp. 10-29. Impact factor: 0.044; Rank: 26806

4.      Nilak Datta (2021). “Tourist vs. Traveler: The Legacy of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad (1869).” 58-63. Essays on American Literature: Signposts and Landmarks. Ed. Manju Jaidka, Purnima Bali, Neeraj Pizar, Sakshi Sundaram. New Era Books, 2021.

5.      Nilak Datta and Manju Jaidka (Edited & Compiled) (Sep 2020) Covid’s Metamorphosis: Stories of our Corona Times. Manju Jaidka (Publisher) Kindle. ASIN : B08HQR3W85

6.      Nilak Datta (Aug 2020) “Teaching George Orwell’s ‘Doublethink’ as Post-Industrial Post-Truth.” The Twentieth-Century: Literary Signposts and Watersheds: An Anthology of Essays. Edited Purnima Bali and Neeraj Pizar. Manju Jaidka (Publisher) Kindle. Pp. 69-73. ISBN: B08GLW992P. ASIN: B08GKZPYTR.

7.      Nilak Datta (Feb 2020) “Habitable Utopias and Their Preservation: The Case Study of Daniel Boone.” MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature. ISSUE: Sunny Pleasure Domes and Caves of Ice: Utopias and Dystopias in World Literature ISSN: 2581-5768. Vol 4, Feb 2020.

8.      Nilak Datta, (2019) “The Harlem Renaissance and Its New Avatars.” Review of Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in honour of Amritjit Singh, edited by Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shehnaz. Fortell, Issue 39, pp.129- 132. ISSN (print): 2229-6557.

9.      Nilak Datta. (2019) “Afterword.” In Babitha Marina Justin. I Cook my Own Feast. New Delhi: RedRiver, 2019. pp. 75-77.

10. Nilak Datta (2018) "The Museum as West and West as Museum: The Micro-Politics of Museum Display in George Catlin's Vanishing American Indians." Western American Literature, vol. 53 no. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 311-338. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/wal.2018.0056 [SCOPUS] Impact Factor: 0.21; Rank: 19326

11. Nilak Datta. (2018) “Stereotype Print and Contemporary Affective Nationalism: Making India in the Age of Globalisation.” Media, Culture and Ethics. Ed. Sangeeta Sharma, Sushila Shekahawat, Anupam Yadav. Macmillan,  pp. 85-90.

12. Nilak Datta. (2016). “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique Nixon”. Callaloo, vol. 39, no. 4, 2016, pp. 942-945. Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2017.0030 [SCOPUS]; Impact Factor: NA; Rank: 25469

13. Nilak Datta. (2016) “The Literature of Resistance: Dalit Literatures in India.” The IACLALS Journal: Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2016. vol 2, pp. 113-115.

14. Nilak Datta. (2015) "Under Western Eyes: Tourist Gazes in recent Postcolonial Indian Fictions" Presented in The Annual IACLALS Conference (co-hosted by Panjab University, Chandigarh, India). Date Conf. Held: Feb 2014. Published in The IACLALS Journal: Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2015. Eds. Meenakshi Bharat and Angelie Multani, Vol 1. Pencraft: Delhi, 2015, 196-206.

15. Nilak Datta (December 2015.)"Postmodern Exhibitive Space and Touristic Social Identity in Don DeLillo's White Noise (1985). Published in Research Chronicler. Research Chronicler. University of Mumbai. Vol 3. Issue IX-I. 2015, 1-13.

16. Nilak Datta (2014). Book review of Sarika Chandra's Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalizationand the Remobilizing of Americanism. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 60. 2 (2014): 393- 396. DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2014.0030 [SCOPUS]. Impact Factor: 0.14; Rank: 22184

17. Nilak Datta (2012) “Colonial Trains, Postcolonial Tracks: Book Review of Marian Aguiar’s Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility. Reviews in Cultural Theory. 3.2 (2012): 14-18. http://reviewsinculture.com/?r=93. Web. [NON SCOPUS] ISSN: 1918-9710

18. Nilak Datta (2012) "The Ethics of Sightseeing." Book Review of Dean MacCannell's The Ethicsof Sightseeing. Annals of Tourism Research. 39 (2012): 1268-1270. [SCOPUS]; Impact Factor: 9.011; Rank: 546

19. Nilak Datta (2002) "History and his-story in Train to Pakistan." (Chapter 5) The Fictional World of Khushwant Singh. Ed. Indira Bhatt. Creative Books.

PUBLICATIONS ACCEPTED (Forthcoming in 2023)

1.      Nilak Datta  “Upamanyu Chatterjee.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writers in English.

2.      Nilak Datta  “Gita Mehta.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writers in English

3.         Nilak Datta  “English August.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writers in English

4.         Nilak Datta “River Sutra. ” Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writers in English

5.         Nilak Datta  “Mundane Monumentalism and Standardized Touristic Pleasure: A Case Study of Haussmannian Paris.” Modernism/modernity  (Johns Hopkins) [SCOPUS]

6.         Nilak Datta “Reverse Settler City: The Case Study of Chicago’s 1893 ‘White City.’” Revue d’histoire urbaine. [SCOPUS]

EDITORIAL

1.      IACLALS Newsletter. Editorial “Literary Agencies, Taste, and the Reading Public.” Issue 4 (June 2016). <http://www.iaclals.com/e-newsletter/archives/07-2016>