Dr.K.Subapriya Assistant Professor Department of English Jaya College of Arts and Science Thiruninravur, Thiruvallur District-602024 Tamil Nadu, India. In contemporary era Native American Literature has gained a vast significance in the sphere of Marginalized literature. Different texts are widely chosen and dealt with various perspectives. This paper focuses on Reservation Blues written by a well-known…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Concept of Space and Time in The Shadow Lines
Bhasha Shukla Sharma Head, Department of Humanities UIT, RGPV, Bhopal. Abstract: Amitav Ghosh in his novels seems to be in search of (cultural) spaces in the dark smeared lines across cultures or is he trying to find out space between cultures? Is this darkness of the lines across cultures caused by the black or the…
The Scarf
Barnali Saha You are as light as a thin strand of white hair, as invisible as a common face. The back seat of the Honda where you rest is hardly perturbed by your weight. The wind smelling of rain- soaked frondescence sets you adrift in a procellous stone-strewn water body with perilous waves. You are…
Cultural Encounters in Anita Desai’s Bye, Bye Black Bird
Baljit Kaur Dhaliwal Asstt. Professor Baba Shri Chand Ji Govt. College, Sardargarh, Bathinda Anita Desai’s novel Bye, Bye Black Bird (1971) is an authentic study of man-woman relationships bedevilled by cultural encounters. Of all the novels of Desai this is the most intimately related to her own experience. She said in an interview “of all…
Illumination of Elizabeth Hunter: A Study of Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm
Mrs. B.Siva Priya Assistant Professor of English The Standard Fireworks Rajaratnam College for Women, Sivakasi- 626123 Virudhunagar District Tamil Nadu, INDIA Patrick White (May 28, 1912- September 30, 1990) was an Australian author who is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. He is the first Australian to receive the…
Susheel Kumar Sharma,The Door is Half Open New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers Distributors. 2012. ISBN: 978-81-8435-341-9. pages 141,150.00/ US $ 10.00 /UK £ 15.00
Dr. Shubha Dwivedi* The anthology under review is a collection of fifty-two poems on diverse topics assembled under a suggestive title “The Door is Half Open”. The anthology could very well be seen as a poetic itinerary which culminates in the poet’s realization of his poetic and spiritual self. What strikes most about the collection…
Manifestation of Caste and Class in Anna Bhau Sathe’s Fakira and Baburao Bagul’s Jenvha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti
Dr. B. N. Gaikwad Head, Dept. of English N. G. Acharya & D. K. Marathe College Chembur Mumbai Dalit literature, a social-literary phenomenon has been far diverse from that of the main stream literature in Maharshtra. It is the literature of those oppressed by cunning system, voiceless, speechless and exploited groups for centuries together. It…
Bridges to Breakthroughs: Tracing the Genealogy of the Indian Science Fiction and Fantasy Genre in English
Shradha Kabra Established genres of the West are constantly being modified, adapted and evolved for the consumption of other nations. Science Fiction and Fantasy (SFF) is one such genre that enjoys unsurpassed popularity prominently because it is a cross-over genre which fuses the impulses and techniques of both science fiction (Sf) and fantasy. Over the…
Listening : An Important Skill and Its Various Aspects
Babita Tyagi Dept.of Professional Comm., RKGIT, GZB Abstract Listening skill is key to receiving messages effectively. It is a combination of hearing what another person says and psychological involvement with the person who is talking. Listening is a skill of Language. It requires a desire to understand another human being, an attitude of respect and…
Indian Diasporic Sensibility: The Pull of Home
Shivangi Srivastava Research Scholar Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow– 226007 India Community of a particular nation or region living outside its own country and sharing some common bonds that give them an ethnic and consequent bonding are referred to as Diaspora or Expatriate. Etymologically ‘Diaspora’ was used for the…