Dr. Leena Pundir Assistant Professor, GRD Girls’ Degree College, Dehra Dun, India. Atwood’s novels deal with women characters struggling to define their identities in an environment that is either hostile to, or at least not in harmony with their sensibility. Her heroines can be categorized into certain stages of depending upon their personality traits and…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Leema Dhar 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 yourself and your family. LD: Well…I’ll start with the famous saying…
The Glass Screen
Laura Solomon Nelson, New Zealand In dire need of money, I took the job stripping behind the glass screen. My boyfriend Karl was very much against it. He thought that I was lowering myself by taking up that sort of work. I was an extra-mural student, studying psychology at Massey University, living in London, struggling…
Transnational Feminism in Post-Apartheid Africa: A Study of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Kusumika Sarkar Research Scholar, A.M.U Department of English, Aligarh 202002, India Transnational feminism attempts to create a common bond among women of different countries with a deep consideration about their respective society as well as their respective cultural background. The norm that categorizes human beings by making one group the majority, the group which is…
Decolonizing the Stage: An Evaluation of Karnad’s Contribution
Dr. Krishna Singh, Assistant Professor of English, Govt. P.G. College Shahdol, M.P. Girish Karnad, a cultural administrator and renaissance figure contributed immensely to decolonize Indian English Drama. Thematic contents, use of Indian myths, legends, history, folk tales and contemporary issues, characters rooted in cultural soil of India, Indianised English and use of folk theatre conventions…
Angelina Weld Grimke’s Selected Poems: An Ecocritical Reading
Shubhanku Kohcar Assistant Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi Since Renaissance, man has been exploring the world around him. Stimulated by curiosity, he has penetrated almost every corner of the planet. In the earlier phase, the curiosity was to know more and more about the unknown areas which was later accompanied by desire to…
Women Writers: In an Odd Place
Kelsey Hoff 2323 Hayes Ave Racine, WI 53405 In this paper, I contend that women were still dealing with oppression in academic circles throughout the 20th century, and the position of the progressive woman writer has received a great deal of scholarly attention lately because of women’s odd place in history and culture. I use…
The Sublime Truth
Jyoti Taneja The water, the land, and the beautiful sky Songs immortal sing birds soaring high Lovable praises and prayers day and night Reflecting in the river is the paradise bright! Mirror the moon and the sun gleams Shimmering plain water of the streams The waves kneel to the heavens above As a mortal on…
Crazy
Jeff Dupuis Toronto, Canada. So not only was Jay schizophrenic, and being paid a grand a month by the government to be that way, he started a business coaching others how to be schizophrenic too. They sent him 250 dollars via PayPal and he told them how to fake his illness and collect monthly cheques…
T.S. Eliot’s Quest for the Meaning on Spiritual Wasteland after the First World War
Jaspal Singh Head, Department of English, G.G.D.S.D. College, Hariana (Hoshiarpur), Punjab, India. Pin-144208 The First World War that broke out in 1914 shook the foundations of the human civilisation as it had no parallels in death, destruction and suffering. Humanity had never witnessed such a massacre in such a short span of time. The war…