This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space for it to be accommodated in general. Therefore, an attempt to suggest alternate reading of not only the postcolonial texts, but also those of the English and American canon has been encouraged. This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space for it to be accommodated in general. Therefore, an attempt to suggest alternate reading of not only the postcolonial texts, but also those of the English and American canon has been encouraged.