Praggnaparamita Biswas Ph.D. Research Scholar Dept. of English, BHU Varanasi, India Abstract: In Indian socio-economical milieu, the incident of ‘bride burning’ as well as ‘dowry death’ is a vicious violence which degrades the position of Indian daughterhood into a perilous situation. Dowry is a transfer of property from bride’s family to that of the bridegroom,…
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Imaging Women: Resisting Boundaries of Gender in Women’s Theatre in India
Dr. Suranjana Bhadra Assistant Professor of English, M.U.C Women’s College, Burdwan, (Affiliated to The University of Burdwan)West Bengal. India. Caught in the gyres of cultural politics, woman in the realm of theatre is the “gendered subaltern,” (Ashcroft 8) produced in the social discourse by and for men but mercilessly castigated from the domain of cultural…
Different Religions Having One Voice: Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharker and Eunice De Souza
Purnima Bali Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla H.P. India Abstract: The women poets are the first to create a sacred zone for the female subject. Indian women poets have come a long way from the earlier different days when it was a taboo for them to speak of their inner self….
Women in the Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya
B. Bala Nagendra Prasad Assistant Professor of English Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences (Autonomous) Rajampet, AP, 516126 Bhabani Bhattacharya is well-known among Indian writers in English for his use of art as a medium for achieving social reform. His novels have commended themselves for a study by virtue of the arresting quality of his…
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…
Capitalistic Discourse and Individual: A Social Study of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Aswathi M.P Assistant Professor Department of English K.A.H.M. Unity Women’s College, Manjeri, Kerala, India Abstract Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a well recognized work for its anti capitalistic inclination. This popular reading arises out of the tendency to put forth the notion that the play is a propagandistic piece of writing. Through this…
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…
Dislocated Self as Reflected in Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road
Archana Hooda Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College Bahadurgarh(Haryana). & Ms. Shikha Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, MKJK College Rohtak(Haryana) India. The term ‘Diaspora’ which was originally used for the Jewish dispersion from their native land has connotations of expatriates, exiles, immigrants, political refugees etc. This phenomena of migration and dispersion is not new…
Mirror with a Memory
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko 6 rue Cesar Franck 75015, Paris, France Light enters me from both directions; I cannot look the other way– my eyes—two flashing cameras—are everywhere. Fish float on them; birds and butterflies swim deep in their reflection. The moon flickers under their fixed lens. Now, she is two. Memories ooze from burnt out…