Nandita Dutta Mumbai (India) Yet another morning when I jostle my way into the second class ladies compartment of the Churchgate local. Amid swear words, jutting elbows and the stench of fresh sweat mixed with talcum powder. I settle down and an elderly woman tugs at my shoulder to make room for her. I squeeze…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood as a Mirror of the African Revolution
Akinwumi Olutola Federal University Oye, Ekiti State, Nigeria Abstract The paper focuses on African revolution through Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood. It analyses the revolutionary temper over the years especially in the contemporary African novels. Many African writers and some intellectuals have been preoccupied with social and political circumstances of their societies. These writers…
A Comparative Analysis of Touchstone and Deconstruction Theory
Dr. Naushad Umarsharif Shaikh Department of English Language and Translation Faculty of Science and Arts- Khulais, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the basic set of rules of the critical theories; touchstone and deconstruction theory. It exemplifies the different concepts in the respective theories. It also takes note…
Cosmo- Vision of the Odishan Tribal: A Study of Gopinath Mohanty’s The Ancestor
Narayan Jena Research Scholar, Department of Liberal Arts IIT Hyderabad, Yeddumailaram, Meddak Andhra Pradesh, India. & Pramod Kumar Das Research Scholar, Department of English Literature, English and Foreign Languages Studies, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, India. Abstract This paper attempts to highlight the importance of the traditional beliefs, practices and specific system of knowledge in the life…
A Cry against Religious Orthodoxy in Imtiaz Dharker’s Poetry
Naziyah Nabi Research Scholar Dept of English University Of Kashmir Imtiaz Dharker (b.1954), a poet-cum-artist, has published five books of poetry. Accompanied by an exhibition of drawings her poetry confronted the theme of suppression of women by societal forces–cultural, religious and political. Having both literal and metaphorical connotations, her poetry captures the heart of every…
Jayanta Mahapatra: An Innovative Approach to Poetic Idiom
Mukul Kumar Sharma Research Scholar, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. & Sanjit Mishra Assistant Professor of English, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India Jayanta Mahapatra seems to show a desire to acclimatize an indigenous tradition to English language, and create a new Indian English idiom; he shares some of the concerns of the well-known Indian…
Black Feminist Consciousness: Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
Dr. T. Jeevan Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College (M), Anantapur – 515 001. Andhra Pradesh. India. Though women constitute more than half of the world’s total population today they have been relegated to a secondary note and men have been considered superior. In fact to be a woman is a curse in…
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus : The Post-Renaissance English Tragedy
Janesh Kapoor Dept. of English Govt. College, Shimla-171004 (Affiliated to H.P. University, Shimla) This paper is foregrounded in the premise that Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, one of the towering tragic protagonists in English Drama over the ages, is a singular character who embodies in his being the spirit of inquiry and revolt with the purpose…
Ingress
Dr Kathryn Hummel University of South Australia Australia I pretend this mirror grants wishes and look back on myself as Alice, with brown hair mussed prettily by insomnia. I wish not to be the reflection, You, holding your boar bristle brush like a potential punishment with your look, somehow, of quality like a closed-heel shoe….
Kamala Das’s My Story: An Embodiment of Marginalized Voices
Hemanta Rajbanshi Assistant Professor, Department of English, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati, Assam. Kamala Das’s autobiography, “My Story”, displays the writer’s various perspectives regarding the subjugation of women. Here, we see her rage against the male dominated patriarchal society, which is expressed through various voices, the voices of an Indian woman, a mother, a child, a lover,…