Mohammad Shaukat Ansari Associate Professor of English M.L.S.M. College (L.N. Mithila University), Darbhanga, Bihar, INDIA Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the…
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Myth and Puranas: Decolonisation of Indian English Drama
Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas: A Universal Myth of Primitivism
Mrs.V.Navaneethamani, India(Tamilnadu) Arun Joshi is an Indian English novelist who has attempted to grapple with the predicament of modern man. He has created an enviable space for himself in the community of Indian novelist. His main thrust is on the individual psyche of the protagonists imbued with an instinctive urge to define their identity. His…
The Lost Homeland of Kashmiri Migrant Pandits
Dr Tasleem A War Assistant Professor Dept of English University of Kashmir & Naadiya Yaqoob Mir Research Scholar Dept of English University of Kashmir All of us know that since 1989, the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has been in the grip of what has been either called a freedom struggle movement or…
‘For–itself’ with ‘in-itself’: Moorings on the Facticity of Existence in A.K. Ramanujam’s A River
Anitha Antony H S A English Govt. Higher Secondary School Muthalamada, Palakkad Kerala ‘When the God-forsaken worldliness of earthly life shuts itself in complacency, the confined air develops poison, the moment gets stuck and stands still, the prospect is lost, a need is felt for a refreshing, enlivening breeze to cleanse the air and dispel…
Color and Poverty in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Pavithra Satheeshkumar Department of Studies in English University of Mysore Mysore 500 046, India. In this paper, we attempt to gain some insight into the problems faced by the African-Americans before they attained equal rights in American society. The exploitation of Afro-Americans started as soon as they stepped on the land of America in 1607…
The Philosophical Roots of Postmodernism: A Critical Discussion
Mufti Mudasir “Postmodernism”, says Hans Bertens, “is an exasperating term” (1995:1). Berten’s remark has been testified by many other theorists and critics of postmodernism. The reason behind the difficulty in defining the term is its enormous complexity and the daunting multiplicity of views about its meaning, scope and implications. Ihab Hassan states that, “postmodernism suffers…
Understanding Hybridity in Derek Walcott’s In a Green Night
Omila Thounaojam Ph.D Research Scholar Assam University, Silchar Many contemporary classic discussions on post-colonial literary theory and practice such as The Empire Writes Back (1989) by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin; The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K Bhabha and others have offered dynamic perspectives pertaining to the post-colonial question of identity…
In Pursuit of Identity: A Study through Selected South Asian Novels
Ananya Roy Assistant Professor of English, NM Institute of Engineering and Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha Homi K. Bhabha in his ‘Introduction’ to The Location of Culture (1994) writes: What is theoretically innovative and politically crucial, is the need to think beyond narratives of originary and initial subjectivities and to focus on those moments or process that…
The Realistic Nature of Robert Frost’s Poetry
Dr. Neena Sharma Asst. Professor of English (AS & H) Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology Ghaziabad (UP), India Robert Frost is one of few poets in English literature who shall never become outdated because poetry is an echo of every sensitive man’s experiences and his limitations. The main theme of his poetry is the…