Aliye Mohammad Jafari Department of English Language, Anar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Anar, Iran & Fatemeh Pourjafari Department of English Language, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran Abstract The avant-garde Japanese novelist, Kobo Abe initiated a literary reformation and by deviating from the traditional style revolutionized Japanese literature both in form and content. Focusing…
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Class Stratification in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Iqra Shagufta Research Scholar (English) Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. & Noor-ul-Qamar Qasmi Lecturer in English GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Abstract: The White Tiger is the narration of a journey of the protagonist Balram from rags to riches amid fierce class war, exploitation, amorality and expanding globalization. Balram is crushed in a callously stratified society…
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….
Saussurean Concerns in the Writings of Adrienne Rich
Hina Gupta Assistant Professor ,Department of English Patel Memorial National College, Rajpura (Punjab) India & Research Scholar (English) Punjabi University, Patiala Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) took to writing as a key to social and political change. She surfaces through her remarkable poetry as a “pioneer” in poetry of empowerment (Gelpi xi). Her poetry consistently vouchsafes for…
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,…
Into The Fire
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…
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…