Dr. Behzad Pourgharib Assistant Professor of English English Department Golestan University, Golestan, Iran Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I’ve found: but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. (The Blind Assassin 508). It may seem paradoxical that with all Margaret Atwood’s sex experiments with different narrative genres and her emphasis…
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Hope and Despair: A Carnivalesque Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Dr. A.R.Hanuman Assistant Professor of English, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. The main concern of Vonnegut’s novels is to attack a set of beliefs that men surrender themselves to, thereby, causing misery to themselves. The significance man attaches to artificial constructs like race, nationality, even national dogma,…
They and Us Killed Us, A Review of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
Title: The Healers Author: Ayi Kwei Armah Genre: Novel Publisher: Per Ankh Pages: 351 ISBN: 2-911928-04-0 Year of Publication: 1978 (this edition 2000) Country: Ghana; Africa Reviewer: Nana Fredua-Agyeman Authors write for different reasons. To some writing has a therapeutic effect. Some write to express a personal opinion, some write toward an idea whereas others…
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Excerpt from Novel -The One Percent
Clutter
The Cookie Man
An. Ray Norsworthy Boise, USA Because the sun kills the improvident, and the cookie man is nothing if not provident, he always comes into town about an hour before dusk, his elongated shadow preceding him down Main Street. The only sound is the wind whistling the day’s last fevered breath. No dog scampers out to…
Snapshot
Mitanjeli Tischler Kansas, USA The Separation Everything is arranged. The lights are on, and the groceries sit on the counter. The coffee pot is clean, the tea boxes stacked on the shelf. Yellow peppers and green bananas remain in their plastic bags on the floor. The man and the woman argue at the front door,…