Indu. B. C Ph.D Scholar International Centre for Kerala Studies Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Abstract This paper attempts to explain the cross cultural conflicts, trauma, isolation, aspirations and dilemmas of the Indian Women immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake , especially Aashima Ganguly, who find herself in between the native culture and host culture and her…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Portrayal of Black Survivors in Unjust and Racist White World in James Baldwin’s Selected Novels: If Beale Street Could Talk and Just Above My Head
J.Yogavinotha Assistant Professor of English S.F.R College, Sivakasi You can handcuff my wrists, and shackle my feet. You can bind me in chains; throw me in your deepest darkest dungeon… But you can’t enslave my thinking… for it is free like the wind. – Jaye Swift As Jaye Swift’s statement in his recent novel But…
Romanticizing the right to exploit: Speciesism in Jack London’s White Fang
Hasina Wahida India Since time immemorial, man has adjudged himself to be the supreme master. He conceives himself to be the best of all creations. Great men like Aristotle have considered man as the Maker or Creator. Even Sidney recalls the Romans and the Greeks, who had named poets as Vates or foreseers or prophets….
Rhyme and Image in Yeats’s A Man Young and Old
Wayne Arnold University of Louisiana at Lafayette Department of English P.O. Box 44691, Lafayette LA 70504 USA In W. B. Yeats’s work, rhyming has specific implications to the overall meaning of the poem. This paper examines Yeats’s “A Man Young and Old” focusing on the rhyming pattern and image selection as well as location while…
Mother Figure in the Short Stories of Jai Nimbkar
Dr.G.Hampamma Professor of English MITS, Madanapalle. The works of Indian women short story writers in English are stuffed with the psychological dilemmas, anxieties, and sufferings undergone by sensitive persons caught in a world of uncertain values of the society and culture. Their stories are primarily woman-centered. The search for self, self-analysis, and a probe into…
Doris Lessing’s Leap into Apocalyptic Fiction
Tasleem Ahmad War Doris Lessing is the writer who does not need much introduction as she has been in news for a long time and not for ordinary reasons. She has bagged number of awards starting from Somerset Maugham Award in 1954 and ending with Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. In addition to these…
Vihang A. Naik, Indian Poet in Conversation with Vishwanath Bite
Dr. Vishwanath Bite Assistant Prof. in English Govt. of Maharashtra Ismail Yusuf College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Jogeshwari (E), Mumbai Editor-In-Chief The Criterion: An International Journal in English www.the-criterion.com and Editor-In-Chief Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal www.galaxyimrj.com VB : Tell us a bit about your early family , life and education. VN : I…
Symbolism, Irony and Humour in Girish Karnad’s Play Tughlaq
Dr. Lakhwinder Singh Gill Associate Professor Post Graduate Dept. of English S. R. Govt. College for Women Amritsar (Punjab) Girish Karnad is a modern Indian playwright who draws the contours of contemporary reality upon the mythological canvas. Drawing the plots of his plays from Indian history, myths and legends, he presents them in such a…
Book: Musings of A Wanderer Author :Shreya Chatterjee ISBN: 978-81-8253-267-0
Binding: Paperback Publisher: Cyberwit.net Language: English Price: Rs. 200 Reviewed By: Dr. Vishwanath Bite Editor-In-Chief, The Criterion: An International Journal in English www.the-criterion.com Editor-In-Chief, Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal www.galaxyimrj.com Assistant Professor in English Government of Maharashtra Ismail Yusuf College of Arts Commerce and Science, Jogeshwari (E) Mumbai, 400060. Musings of A Wanderer is the…
Myth and History in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God
R. Geetha Lecturer in English, Sri Krishna Arts & Science College, Coimbatore & Dr. Pauline Das Associate Professor of English, Karunya University, Coimbatore Abstract: All African writers, though in their distinctive ways, have been concerned in their writings with African experience, African modes of consciousness, with traditional or historically transformed images, rituals and social structures…