Anila Chandran Research Scholar, Department of English, Sree Sankara University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. Revision is a feminist strategy of subverting patriarchal values. It can be a re-interpretation of the andocentric myths from the feminist angle. Women writers redefine women from the feminist perspective. They review the image of women which the patriarchy has popularized….
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Diagnosing Oral Efficiency of L2 Learners of Engineering Students
L. Amutha Part Time Scholar Department of Linguistics Bharathiyar University Coimbatore 641046 & Dr. P. Selvakumar Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Bharathiyar university Coimbatore 641046 Abstract The case study is experimented to diagnose how the use of L2, as the medium of instruction in engineering colleges, has affected the learners’ oral proficiency. The study is…
Politics and Translation
Aditya Kumar Panda academic Consultant National Translation Mission Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore,India To study the political forces behind the translation and its process has been one of the thrust areas in the field of Translation Studies .There is always a motivation behind a translation and its construction of meaning. This motivation may be…
Dooars Tea Tribals’ Diasporic Identity
Abu Siddik Assistant Professor Department of English Falakata College, Falakata, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. Pin: 735211 The term ‘Diaspora’ has a catastrophic origin. It derives from a Greek word meaning dispersion and it presumes that there exists a homeland to which the diaspora will eventually return (Tatla xviii).1 And the term is often used by historians…
Racial Conflict between Black and White Communities in Richard Wright’s Native Son
Dr. Yameen Khan Assistant Professor of English SRM University, NCR Campus Modinagar Ghaziabad, UP, India One of the most excellent writers of African-American literature, Richard Wright was born on 4 September, 1908, on a ranch in Mississippi. He was the first baby of Nathan Wright, an illiterate sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher. His…
Sylvia Plath: of Post-Colonial Time, Space and ‘other’
Yajnaseni Mukherjee Assistant Professor School of Humanities Schools of Technology KIIT University Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751024. The poetry of Sylvia Plath has often been labeled as ‘confessional’. Slapped with this label, the critics have not deigned to look beyond the obvious. A series of quotations and explanations at the beginning of the paper will justify the statement….
A Study of Communication with Reference to Male and Female Approaches and Perceptions
Prof. Vinita Mohindra HOD Department of Humanities& Social Sciences Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal Dr. Samina Azhar Assistant Professor Department of Humanities& Social Sciences Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal & Dr. Vikas Jaoolkar HOD Department of English, Department of English, Government Hamidia Arts and Commerce College Bhopal Communication plays a very…
Communication Breakdown : A Pragmatics Problem
Meenakshi Harraw Verma “Communication works for those who work for it.” John Powell. The statement suggests that communication, in spite of being a natural activity, encompass a lot to be learnt. It is rightly said that it takes only two years to learn how to ‘speak’ but a lifetime to learn ‘what to speak’. Communication…
Hybridity, Marginalization and the Politics of Transgression in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Vandita Liddle Research Scholar University of Allahabad ‘The God Of Small Things’, is written in the postcolonial Anglophone by Arundhati Roy. The adjective ‘postcolonial’, signifies the fact that the novel or any other genre of writing, transcends the peripheries of locality, region and nation, to emerge in the global scenario, proceeding the aftermath of colonization….
Western Aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Criticism
Dr. K. Ujjwala Associate Prof of English K. L. University, Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh, India The western aesthetics was developed in ancient Greece in relation to drama and transposed to other literary categories. This is the earliest or Hellenic phase of criticism which was soon followed by Graeco-Roman phase. The poetic mind of Greece and Rome…