Raja Ambethkar M K Jaya Raj Asst. Professor of English Lecturer in English Freshmen Engineering Department Govt. Degree College K L University Vinukonda, Guntur District, A P. Vaddeswaram Guntur District, A P. Introduction: Divided into two broad sections: “The Ebb: Bhata” and “The Tide: Jowar,” The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago…
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Author and Text: Reading Michel Foucault’s What is an Author
P. Prayer Elmo Raj Assistant Professor of English, Karunya University, Coimbatore Roland Barthes, following the New Critics and T.S. Eliot, with his much debated The Death of the Author, renewed the contested relationship between the author and the text. Barthes rejects the Romantic concept of “Author-God” and advocates a structuralist/poststructuralist point of view that it…
“Dreaming Identity”: Re-reading Jack Davis’s The Dreamers and Kim Scott’s True Country
Prasenjit Das Research Scholar, Dept of English, Ranchi University, India. In my paper I propose to highlight how the essences of Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’ or Spirituality has been employed as resistive tools of appropriation, subversion and identity creation in Aboriginal Australian writings like Jack Davis’s The Dreamers and Kim Scott’s True Country. But, before I move…
William Golding’s Allegorical World Played through Binaries
Prakash Bhadury William Golding explores the rational and the spiritual experience in a moment of crisis in a fabulous setting through the protagonists who are posed as binary opposites. He was concerned with larger, more fundamental and abstract issues that may be called metaphysical and theological. The theme he found of his first novel is…
An Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Langston Hughes Selected Poems
A.Poongodi, Assistant Professor (O.G), Department of English SRM University, Kattankulathur, Chennai James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902 -1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist. He is one of the great Harlemite and spokesman of the black consciousness. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new- literary art form jazz poetry…
Interpreting the Dialectics of Duality in Anita Desai’s
Clear Light of Day Narinder K. Sharma Assistant Professor in English DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology Jalandhar-144008 (Punjab) Anita Desai is a writer who does not believe in weaving the plots of her novel merely on a figment of imagination. As one delves in the world of Desai, one feels that though a work…
W.H. Auden and the Underground Man
Omila Thounaojam Ph.D Research Scholar Assam University, Silchar With the horizon of literary studies expanding continuously, the familiar concepts pertaining to the relationship between man and his society; the question of individual space and freedom of choice; the role of a writer in assessing the collage of voices in conflict and negotiation and many more,…
Women as the Oppressed In The God of Small Things
Silima Nanda Deputy Director, International Division Indira Gandhi National Open University Orissa Arundhati Roy is an acclaimed post-colonial Indian novelist to have bagged the Booker prize for her seminal work ‘The God of Small Things” which was published in 1997. In this novel she beautifully studies the predicament of Indian women against the setting of…
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Subaltern Study.
Nabarun Ghosh Research Scholar Department of English Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India The term ‘subaltern’ was first coined by the Italian Marxist critic Antonio Gramsci to refer to the marginalised classes in a society. He has also opined that the term is not restricted to the economically subversive subjects of the society; rather…
Islam and the West: History of Misconceptions
Morsal Shaif Haidarah Yemeni Ph.D Research scholar in English University of Madras Chennai, India. Introduction There is a continual discursive struggle for hegemony as social groups attempt to articulate their particular vision of the nation as general, taken for granted, natural, and universalized reality for all through the media. (Gavrilos 431) The above quotation indicates…