Synopsis Indian Response to American Literature comprises twenty-two essays presented by member-delegates at XXXIV annual congress of the Indian Association for American Studies held at Annamalai University during December, 2001. These essays selected out of fortysix presentations, attempt to review and evaluate American Literature in the twentieth century and the new millennium, and specially focus upon the trends, tendencies and various strains in the evolution of American novel in terms of its thematic concerns and modes of narration. Likewise, Afro-American women poets, the metaphysical and human concerns as reflected in American drama, the diasporic writings of Ramanujan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Diwakaruni and India’s response to literary theories have been critically analysed. As the essays focus on various facets of American Literature, the present anthology will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and students of American Literature.