The Criterion: An International Journal in English – Bi-Monthly, Peer-reviewed and Indexed Open Access eJournal ISSN: 0976-8165

The Criterion: An International Journal in English

Volume 17, Issue 3 · June 2026

ISSN 0976-8165 · Open Access · Peer Reviewed · DOI 10.66376/criterion

45 Articles · 21 Categories · Pages 1–754 · Published 30 June 2026

Research Articles

01
ELT

Trajectory of English Language Curriculum Design in Indian Higher Education: From Macaulay to NEP 2020

Garima Dalal, Gunjan Arora

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.1

Pages
1–15

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World Literature

The Lived Body in Seizure: Epilepsy as an Ontological Mode of Being in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot

Srividya S.

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.2

Pages
16–35

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Asian/South Asian Literature

Toxic Oceans and Ecological Emergencies: Exploring Slow Violence in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

Ayman Wani, Huma Yaqub

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.3

Pages
36–55

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Comparative Literature

Voices Against Silence: Patriarchal Critique and Female Resilience in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Ruksar Saifi

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.4

Pages
56–70

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American Literature

Identity, Migration, and Trauma in Georgia Douglas Johnson’s Poetry

Suchismita Sarkar

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.5

Pages
71–88

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World Literature

Crisis of Colonised Subjects and Colonial Modernity in A House for Mr Biswas and The Mimic Men

Saumitra Sahai, Mudita Agnihotri

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.6

Pages
89–101

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Cultural Studies

Changing Flavours: An Analysis of the Influence of Migration on the Flavours of Udupi Restaurant Food

Ayushi Dwivedi

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.7

Pages
102–113

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Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities

Posthuman Liminalities: Reimagining Food and Embodiment in The Windup Girl

Dr. Sambhu R

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.8

Pages
114–128

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British Literature

Validating the Status Quo or Valorising Rebelliousness: Analysing J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter

Dr Navjot Khosla

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.10

Pages
129–146

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Diaspora Studies

Diasporic Reality, Dislocation and Rebirth: A Critical Study of the Novel Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander

Mrs. Moumita Bera

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.11

Pages
147–162

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Cultural Studies

Social Critique and Subaltern Perspectives in Vijaydan Detha’s Folk Tales: A Marxist Analysis of Class, Power, and Resistance in Selected Tales

Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Dr. Seema Sharma

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.12

Pages
163–176

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Literary Theory & Criticism

The Making of the Byronic Soldier in Kevin Powers’ Iraq War Narrative The Yellow Birds

Ms. Gunjan Palariya

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.13

Pages
177–190

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13
Dalit & Subaltern Studies

Tribal Life and Culture in Poetry: A Reading of Flame of the Forest by Ignatius Soreng

Dr. Ajit Kumar Kullu

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.14

Pages
191–208

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14
British Literature

Cross-Cultural Identity in Doris Lessing’s The Grass in Singing

Ms.Arti Gupta

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.15

Pages
209–222

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British Literature

Desire, Christ and the Flesh: Reading The Wife’s Lament and The Dream of the Rood and Julian’s Revelations

Ms.Sreeja Chowdhury

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.16

Pages
223–245

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World Literature

Analyzing the Collective Trauma of Hazaras in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

Ms. Sneha Das

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.17

Pages
246–271

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Postcolonial Literature & Studies

A Writer’s People and A Metropolitan Postcolonial Man’s Ways of Looking and Feeling: A Critical Study

Prof. Kafeel Ahmed Choudhury

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.18

Pages
272–289

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Interdisciplinary / Other

Trans-Corporeal Intimacies: Eco-Crip Perspectives in Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Ms.Daniya Malik

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.19

Pages
290–307

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Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities

Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) and the Anthropocene: Literature in the Age of Climate Emergency

Dr Atima Singh

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.20

Pages
308–317

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20
American Literature

Shadow of Harlem: Black Visibility and Urban Survival in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle

Dr. B.R. Veeramani, Ms. D. Durgalakshmi

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.21

Pages
318–330

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21
Indian Writing in English

Language Identity and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: A Study with Reference to Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Ms. Saloni

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.22

Pages
331–342

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Gender Studies & Feminist Literature

From the Panopticon to Petrification: Shifting Paradigms of the Gaze and Moral Surveillance in Select Malayalam Short Stories

Dr. Sheniya Jose P.

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.23

Pages
343–353

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Gender Studies & Feminist Literature

Transgressions and Celebrations: A Reading of Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe

Dr Dhanya S

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.9

Pages
354–374

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24
British Literature

Reading Wrong: Misinterpretation and Narrative Deception in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Dr Manisha Mathur

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.24

Pages
375–390

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Gender Studies & Feminist Literature

Reclaiming the Self and Identity: Deconstructing the Devastating Effect of Silence and the Dehumanising Impact of Marriage in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence

Miss Twinkle Saha

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.25

Pages
391–407

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Indian Writing in English

Ecocide and Identity: Tribal Resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s Chotti Munda and His Arrow

Dr. Bosudha Bandyopadhyay

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.26

Pages
408–426

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Comparative Literature

Emotional Hierarchies in Love Triangles: Loud and Passive Lovers in The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Ms. Sonam

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.27

Pages
427–451

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Digital Humanities

Reconfiguring Authorship in the Age of Post-humanism and Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study of John Keats and ChatGPT-Generated Poems

Dr. Prithiviraj Singh Chauhan

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.28

Pages
452–477

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American Literature

Self-hating Blacks in Afro-American Literature: A Psycho-social Investigation into the Phenomenon of Black Self-hatred

Dr. Vikas Meshram

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.29

Pages
478–492

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Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities

Rivers of Memory, Mountains of Trauma: A Comparative Ecocritical Study of Mirza Waheed and Basharat Peer

Harshita Sharma

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.30

Pages
493–514

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Trauma & Partition Studies

Speech in Parentheses: Reading the Interplay of Silence in Habiburahman’s First, They Erased Our Name

Ms. Monideepa Raichaudhuri

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.31

Pages
515–527

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Cultural Studies

The Wounded King’s Accusation: Narrative Management of Ethical Instability in the Vali Episode across Ramayana Traditions

Ms Saishilpa Janamanchi, Prof. Y. L. Srinivas

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.32

Pages
528–547

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Gender Studies & Feminist Literature

Spatial Analysis of the Kitchen in Asako Yuzuki’s Butter

Ms Shilpa Uparkar

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.33

Pages
548–559

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South Asian Literature

Food, Kitchen and Healing in Banana Yoshimoto’s Novella Kitchen

Dr. Rajkumari Sujata Singha

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.34

Pages
560–572

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Indian Writing in English

Girish Karnad and the Folk Tradition: A Study of Ritual, Device, and Narrative in Hayavadana

Dr. Aratee Chaubey

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.35

Pages
573–589

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Interdisciplinary / Other

The Gambler’s Shadow: Addiction and Shadow Integration in The Pig Flip

Dr. Finitha Jose

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.36

Pages
590–604

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Gender Studies & Feminist Literature

Memory, Erasure, and Trauma: Deconstructing the Symbolism of the Violet Vein in “The Vein of Memory”

Ms. Drisya K.

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.37

Pages
605–619

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South Asian Literature

Bodies at the Edge of Law: Bare Life, Sovereign Abandonment, and Intimacy in Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage

Miss Ankita Boruah

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.38

Pages
620–632

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Postcolonial Literature & Studies

Locating the “uncanny” in Neel Mukherjee’s A Life Apart

Mr. Niku Chetia

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.39

Pages
633–646

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Interdisciplinary / Other

The Pen and the Gavel: Understanding the Interconnection of Law and Literature

Prof. Smita Bangal-Khirode, Mahesh Deshpande

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.40

Pages
647–666

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Indian Writing in English

Reimagining the Past: Queer Historiography in R. Raj Rao’s Mehmud and Ayaz

Ms. Rinku, Dr. Tripti Choudhary

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.41

Pages
667–679

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42
Translation Studies

Verses Across Borders: A Study of Vikram Seth’s Three Chinese Poets

Dr Divya Pradhan

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.42

Pages
680–708

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Indian Literature

Reclaiming Adivasi History Through Verse: A Study of Select Poems of Anuj Lugun

Preeti Maurya, Prof. Deepak Kumar Singh

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.43

Pages
709–726

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Critical Theory

Singing The Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Look at Bhojpuri Music

Jayant Kumar

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.44

Pages
727–739

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Diaspora Studies

Unveiling Diasporic Contrast in the Select Poetry of Derek Walcott, Satendra Nandan and Sujata Bhatt

Ms Radhika Dhasmana

10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.45

Pages
740–754

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