Dr. Pradipta Sengupta Department of English(U.G.& P.G.) M.U.C.Women’s College B.C.Road, Burdwan-713104 In an interview 1 with Prof. Sukhbir Singh (Osmania University, Hyderabad) John Updike explained what he called his “Hawthorne novels”. Updike’s three later novels – A Month of Sundays (1975), Roger’s Version (1986) and S (1988) – comprise his “Hawthorne novels”. Each of these…
Author: Madhuri Bite
Diasporic (Non) Identities of Chinese Women in The Harmony Silk Factory: Snow Soong as the Anti-Stereotype?
Janet Tay Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From the Empress Dowager to Suzie Wong, East Asian women are no strangers to being stereotyped by Western media as either the ‘dragon lady’ or more commonly, the bashful Oriental courtesan who is exotic and subservient, often to a white, dominant man. In the film based on the book by…
Marginal Existence: A Study of Sindi’s Search for Identity in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
– Dr. Arvind M. Nawale, Head, Dept. of English Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Udgir, Dist: Latur (M.S.) Over the past two decades, the term ‘marginality’ and ‘identity’ have received much critical attention from the scholars in various disciplines. Marginality refers to something that pertains to the edge, border or boundary. Something that is on margin or close…
The Location of Culture: Homi K. Bhabha’s New Methodology of Cultural Analysis
Mr. Ramesh Tibile Gadhinglaj, India Introduction: Homi Bhabha was born into the Parsi community of Bombay in 1949 and grew up in the shade of Fire-Temple. He is an alumnus of St. Mary’s High school, Mazagaon, Mumbai. He received his B. A. from Bombay University and his M.A., D. Phil. from Christ Church, Oxford University….
Identity Crisis in Girish Karnad’s “A Heap of Broken Images”
-Rukhaya.M.K Kasaragod, India MA,M.Phil. Featured Arts and Entertainment Contributor, AssociatedContent.com rukhaya_mk@rediffmail.com The theme of identity crisis, as prevalent as it is in the plays of Girish Karnad, is the most pronounced in this play as it is titular – A Heap of Broken Images. The play starts off from T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland”: A heap of…