About the Author

Deepinderjeet Randhawa teaches is in Department of English at Khalsa College, Patiala. She received her M.A. (English), M.phil. (Anthropological Linguistics), Ph. D (English) from Punjabi University, Patiala.  Her chief interests are: Theory, Comparative Literature and Religion. She is the author of The Carnival of Difference: Imaginary of Semiotics of Dickens and Dostoyevsky and co-author of The Sikh Memory. Her papers on literature and religion have been published in Punjab University Arts Bulletin, Guru Nanak Dev University Journal of English Studies, Punjabi University Journal of Religious Studies, Perspectives on Guru Granth Sahib.

Importance of this monograph lies in conveying to the reader that Julia Kristeva’s theory that combines the poetic sign, the sacred, revolt, motherly semiotic-choric energies and the Symbolic, has been nearly practiced in the Punjabi texts.

The Monograph is certainly a contribution to inter-cultural dialogue and a welcome effort to locate the Punjabi literary identity in which even Kristeva is re-envisioned.

                                                                                            -Gurbhagat Singh

                                                                                     Former Prof. & Head,

                                                                                  Department of English, 

                                                                            Punjabi University Patiala.