Alexander Mathew Harris 118 North Howard Street Apartment 223 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 (410) 622-0865 The summons from Main Jye had been sudden and curious. The sun was near second place, and the breeze couldn’t move Ralo’s kilt. Distracted, he chewed his lip while walking through Pempamsie’s Central Market, dodging shoppers and kora players and stall…
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DOWRY
Hamza Hassan Sheikh, Pakistan She was much happy after purchasing a new braid for hairs. It became routine that whenever the hawker used to visit their village, she used to buy any hair-band, hair-clip, lipstick, or any beauty cream to beautify herself. The day on which she bought anything that day was a memorable for…
The Labyrinthine Quest for Identity in Doris Lessing’s children of Violence
Hajer Elarem PhD Student at University of Franche Comté, France Department of English Literature and Gender Studies CRIT Center (Centre Interdisciplinaire et Transculturel de Besançon, France)/ Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Studies Center of Besançon, France Abstract: If the bildungsroman has traditionally been considered as an androcentric1 literary genre−a linear narrative that describes the progress of a…
The Retrieval of Relegated Identity of Bertha Mason in Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Dr. B.J. Geetha Assistant Professor, Department of English, Periyar University, Salem – 11 Abstract: Wide Sargasso Sea is a post-colonial parallel novel by Dominican author Jean Rhys. It is inspired by and acts as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The novel is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s….
BRAHMACHARYA
Durlabh Singh “ Brahmacharya or spotless chastity is the best of all penances; a celibate of such spotless chastity is not a human being, but a god indeed…” People are always looking for cures to their physical, emotional and spiritual ailments and if the self-effort is lacking, they will run to such authority or a…
Sex in Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Dilip Kumar Sen Assistant Professor & Head Department of English, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. D H Lawrence has been the subject of so many studies now that he has began to seem more of an academic industry than a writer. What the critics have not done for him he has done for himself,…
The Irula Language and Literature
Dr. Pauline Das Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Karunya University Coimbatore India There are no primitive languages. Every language that has developed naturally in human society serves admirably as a means of communication in that particular society. Every language is a trial, an essay. And different linguistic communities literally inhabit and traverse different landscapes of…
Voicing the De-Voiced: A Review of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Avishek Chaudhury Assistant Teacher in English, Midnapore Collegiate School , Midnapore, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. In the recent post-modern Indian English fiction there are radical changes in the writers’ outlook on socio-cultural matters. Radical changes have been seen in almost all the areas of literature challenging the basic foundations and beliefs and bringing under merciless…
A Painful Past: Depiction of Stolen Generation in Aboriginal Life Writing
Arzu Naqvi The forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families is one of the darkest chapters of Australian history. Snatching children from their families was the most ravaging practice. A recent national report on the policies found that there was not a single Indigenous family that did not have a child taken away. The…
The Popular and the Nation: The Kalighat Patas
Arunima Bhattacharya Research Scholar and J.R.F., Department of English, Jadavpur University. Abstract: This paper aims to study the idea of Nation as a visual space/place. Locating the politics of representation in the social, intellectual, economic and religious corpus of a place and studying how the re-presentation of the space is creating new dimensions of viewing…