M. S. Veena Dr. P.V. Ramanathan Assistant Professor, Department of English Professor, N.S.S. College, Rajakumari, Idukki, Kerala; Department of English Research Scholar, Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India Kollam, Kerala, India Orientalism is a much discussed and debated term in postcolonial studies. It has acquired many shades of meaning through centuries. Starting off as…
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The Trauma of Torn Individuality in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter
Dr. Arjun Dubey Associate Professor (English) & Head Ph.D(English) Department of Applied Science & Humanities Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur 273010 & Dr. Shradha Srivastava Faculty(English) Ph.D(English) Department of Applied Science & Humanities Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur 273010 Introduction A cross-cultural writer Bharati Mukherjee is one of the lively and illuminating stars…
Manohar Shetty’s Animal Poems: A Critical Study
Shahaji Mastud In the present research paper an attempt is made to explore the animal world depicted in the poems of Manohar Shetty’s three collections : A Guarded Space, Borrowed Time and Domestic Creatures. This critical appraisal of his poems will unfold the deeper meaning of the animal world steeped in Shetty’s psyche. Poetry from…
Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature ; Life Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe Philadelphia
Reviewed by Pramod Kumar Das Ph.D Scholar, Department of English Literature The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. & Narayan Jena Ph.D Scholar, Department of Liberal Arts IIT Hyderabad, India. In recent years there has been a steady increase in the popularity of cricket, soccer and other sports as different forms of entertainment. Right…
Water, the Cry of Women and the Ganges (From Ecofeministic Perspective)
Madhavi A. Moharil Dept. of English Rajkumar Kewalramani Kanya M.V., Nagpur. A sensitive mind possesses a capacity to feel the pains in the society. Literature is the mirror image of the social set up. Literary Theories and Criticism are the results of the continuous speculation of the talented and matured minds. A man is the…
Transgressing Territories: Depiction of Lesbianism in Literature
Dr. Maneeta Kahlon Assistant Professor English Shanti Devi Arya Mahila College Dinanagar, Distt -Gurdaspur Punjab Literature has been rather conservative in exploring lesbianism. No doubt Ismat Chugtai’s Lihaaf (1941) set the trend but it was written long back and should have set the trend for writing and bringing into the open more lesbian novels, stories…
Shakespeare’s Othello : Pro Colonial? Anti-Colonial?
Diler Singh Associate Lecturer Jaypee University of Information and Technology Waknaghat, Solan. Himachal Pradesh, India. Pin Code 173234 Abstract: Othello, the Moor of Venice finds a place among Shakespeare’s four sublime tragedies. Othello, however, is different from the other Shakespearean tragic heroes in being a man of colour. Also, he has risen to his present…
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…
Identity Crisis and the Impact of Violence in Kwame Kwei Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen
Dr. P. Bagavathy Rajan Assistant Professor (SS), Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology,Pollachi. Tamilnadu, India 642 003 Literature is an imitation of life. Among the literary genres, drama has a distinctive feature. In drama, the purpose of literature is arrived at even by those who cannot read and write. They get entertained and educated…
Women and Society in Twenty First Century Literature
K. Karthikeyan Asst. Professor Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur-621212. Exploring the role of women during the twentieth century means considering the evolution of feminism, a loaded word that implies a variety of ideas and arouses conflicting reactions. Feminism suggests a practical determination to alter unjust laws, whether about divorce, property, or voting rights. But it…