RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Nilak Datta. " A River Sutra." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka and Tej. N. Dhar. (Routledge-Taylor and Francis: New York, 2024) 361-362. ISBN 978-1-032-24557-7 3.
• Nilak Datta. "English August: An Indian Story." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka and Tej. N. Dhar. (Routledge-Taylor and Francis: New York, 2024) 136-137. . ISBN 978-1-032-24557-7 4.
• Nilak Datta. "Gita Mehta." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka and Tej. N. Dhar. (Routledge-Taylor and Francis: New York, 2024) 261-262. . ISBN 978-1-032-24557-7 5.
• Nilak Datta. "Upamanyu Chatterjee ." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka and Tej. N. Dhar. (Routledge-Taylor and Francis: New York, 2024) 54-56. . ISBN 978-1-032-24557-7 6.
• 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
• 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-
• 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 Pp. 10-29.

• 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.

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

• 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. 69-73. ISBN: B08GLW992P. ASIN: B08GKZPYTR.

• 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.

• Nilak Datta, (2019) “The Harlem Renaissance and Its New ” 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.

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

• 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]

• Nilak (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.

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

• Nilak (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.

• 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 Pencraft: Delhi, 2015, 196-206.

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

• 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, 2 (2014): 393- 396. DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2014.0030 [SCOPUS]

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

• Nilak Datta (2012) "The Ethics of " Book Review of Dean MacCannell's The Ethicsof Sightseeing. Annals of Tourism Research. 39 (2012): 1268-1270. [SCOPUS]

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

PUBLICATIONS (Forthcoming in 2024)

• Nilak Datta. “Jhumpa Lahiri” Springer Handbook of Diasporic Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka.

• Nilak Datta. “The Lowland.” Springer Handbook of Diasporic Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka.

• Nilak Datta. “The Namesake.” Springer Handbook of Diasporic Indian Writing in English. Ed. Manju Jaidka.

EDITORIAL

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