Dr Sukriti Ghosal Principal MUC Women’s College Burdwan, West Bengal India In his essay the ‘The Imagination’ I. A. Richards points out that in a poem impulses are organized by a poet in two ways — by exclusion and by inclusion. In the structure of poems where impulses are organized by inclusion one comes across…
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“The Other” In the Life of Pi
Sugandha S Singh Asstt. Professor, Deptt. of English S.M.P. Govt. Girls’ P.G. College, Meerut Yann Martel was awarded the 2002 Booker Prize for his novel “Life of Pi”. It was his third book , the earlier ones being “The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios” (1993) and “Self” (1996). Yann Martel was born in Canada in…
Reframing the Land and the Native Self: Interdisciplinary Observations in Contemporary Postcolonial Texts
Dr. K.N. Shoba Assistant Professor, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India. Rob Nixon, a postcolonial ecocritic, poses a critically crucial question: “What would it mean to bring environmentalism into dialogue with postcolonialism?” (233). The paper makes a modest attempt to address a few issues that would in turn help answering the question. Environmentalism or ecocriticism, which…
Ruth: Harold Pinter’s Voice of Postmodernist Politics
Reflective Practice through Journal Writing- A Case Study
Dr. B. Samrajya Lakshmi Associate Professor of English Department of Science and Humanities, Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, Krishna (Dt.), Andhra Pradesh, India Introduction Diary/Journal Writing A teaching journal/diary is an ongoing written account of observations, reflections, and other thoughts about teaching, usually in the form of a notebook, or electronic mode, which serves…
Nativism, Love and Sorrow in Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion
Md. Sahidul Islam Research Scholar Department of English Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh-202002, U.P. India. Nativism is a “term for desire to return to indigenous practices and cultural forms as they existed in pre-colonial society” (Ashcroft 159). This radical concept of nativism, which was commonly found in the Indian writings during the pre-colonial India, in fact,…
The Wretched of India: The Socio-cultural Space for the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Dr. Safiul Islam M.A., B.Ed., PGDL, Ph.D. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, INDIA. Like racism which is the fundamental factor in dividing people in European history, the caste system, a deep-rooted factor hindering the integration of people in India, affects the socio- economic and socio-cultural system of Indian society. The most unwanted and exploited ones are…
Twins’ Estrangement in The God of Small Things
Ram Avtar Vats Research Scholar of Mewar University, Rajasthan (Associate Professor, English) Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities IIMT, College of Engineering, Greater Noida Rakhi Sharma Research Scholar of Mewar University, Rajasthan (Assistant Professor, English) Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities ITS, Engineering College, Greater Noida The time comes, the father falls sick of cradling…
Hiding in the Light: R. K. Narayan as a Feminist Novelist
Rajendra Kumar Dash, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. & Namita Panda, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The fictions of R.K. Narayan (1907-2001), especially his novels, can be regarded as more or less a socio-historical chronicle of India…