Rajeev Sinha Research Scholar & Senior Lecturer in Comm. Skills Patel College of Engineering Bhopal MP 462003 INDIA We all have an idea of what grammar means though the concept is shrouded in a vague wrong headed notion and ill founded associations not only this we use the word “grammar “rather in a generalized sense…
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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…
Farther from the Original: Reading Mirza Ghalib in English Translations
Abstract Khursheed Ahmad Qazi The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any written language except that in which it was originally written – Johnson The origin of philosophy is translation or the thesis of translatability – Derrida A line will take us hours may be Yet, if it does not seem a moment’s thought,…
Poetry of Protest and Confession: A Study of Kamala Das
Purnima Bali Research scholar, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. India. English Poetry started with Henry Loius Vivian Derozio, when he published his collection of poems in 1827. The study of Indian English poetry is incomplete without the study of women poets. After 1960, women poets’ poetry was focused on feminism. It is the ‘new literature’ which…
The Central Theme of Education in Shaw’s Pygmalion
Dr. D. Prasad Assistant Professor of English, Jeppiaar Engineering College, The Central Theme of Education The contribution on Bernard Shaw to the modern English drama is significant. He discusses a serious problem of the contemporary society as intensely as he can. Therefore the readers call his plays ‘Comedies of Purpose’ In writing plays, Shaw had…
Narrativizing the Margins: Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Pradip Mondal India Tony Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987) depicts a world in which a slave woman who is told that she can not be a mother, indeed, can not legally own her own body, assumes rights of motherhood, in spite of such legalities. Seethe kills her baby daughter Beloved from being remanded to slavery. Set…
The Dumb Dancer: A Quest for Identity
Dr. Phani Kiran Assistant Professor Department of English Al-Jouf University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract The Dumb Dancer is a story of a Kathakali (an Indian classical dance that has highly stylized gesture language) dancer Bhima, who plays the mythological role of Bhima and over identifies himself with the role to the extent of forgetting…
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Culture and Identity Crises in Anurag Mathur’s The Inscrutable Americans
Patil Ganpatrao Baburao UGC Teacher Fellow( Ph. D.), Departmnt of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The Best selling author, Anurag Mathur wrote four novels. As an immigrant, he experiences a sense of detachment that arises out of physical and emotional alienation experienced by all people living away from their native cultures and have tried assimilating into…
Investigating the Role of Short-Stories in Overcoming the Problems Faced by the Libyan EFL Learners in Reading Comprehension Skill
Mustafa Mubarak Pathan & Zamzam Emhemmad Mar’ei Al-Dersi Department of Linguistics and Translation studies, Faculty of Arts, the University of Sebha, Sebha, Libya Abstract: Reading comprehension skill forms the central place in any foreign language teaching and learning processes. It is considered to be a very important channel for getting the required exposure of the…