K.B.Glory Asst.Professor of English K.L.University Vaddeswarm Guntur. There is a considerable body of fiction in English written by immigrant writers based on their personal experiences. “The exiled writer usually benefits from his or her uprooting” (Cynthia Vanden Driesen, ‘New Directions in Australian Studies’ p.201). What is left behind is seen more clearly from a distance…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Depiction of Women in Shashi Deshpande and Shobha De’s Works: A Contrastive Study
G.Gayathiri Devi Dr.S.N.Mahalakshmi Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, RMD Engineering College, Anna University of Technology Coimbatore, Kavaraipettai, Chennai. Jothipuram, Coimbatore. Abstract Shashi Deshpande depicts her women as an emergent woman of the modern industrial age, who wants to achieve individuation and authentic self- identity without changing the culture and tradition of the society. Shobha de has…
The Man-Woman Relationship in Mohan Rakesh’s The Great Swans of the Waves
Lingampalle Ganesh L. Asst. Prof. Dept. of English Vasantrao Naik College, Vasarni, Nanded. Modern Indian playwrights have gone back to tradition for their themes and techniques and also fuse with contemporary reality in the modern context. Mohan Rakesh’s The Great Swans of the Waves based on Ashvaghosha’s ‘Saundaranand’, it portrays the internal conflict of Nand…
An Ordered Life
Megs Gillespie Illinois, USA In the place of “I Do” two shots rang through the church. The Bride watched her fiancé slam against the front of the kneeler before falling away, unmoving. Silence echoed. At an unknown signal, everyone began whispering and yelling into phones as the bride shook her fiancé’s arm with no response….
In the Woods without an Anything
THE GIRL WHO WENT AWAY TO FAIRYLAND
Frederick Hilary Euboea, Greece Daniel Potts had once been a young poet of promise. His lyrics had brought him early fame, before the last embers of Romanticism were doused by the Moderns. The problem with Potts, his friends and fellow poets knew, was that he could not grow out of his dreams, nor lay his…
A Dream of Africa
Irena Nieslony Crete, Greece Evening was drawing in, and the sky was a flickering mixture of red, orange and blue. The girl sat alone listening to the sounds of the bush, and despite the closeness of the wild animals, she felt calm and unafraid. A hyena yelled before letting out a blood-curdling laugh, and in…
Feminist Reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices
D.Ebina Cordelia Assistant Professor in English Holy Cross College,Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu Feminism involves various movements, theories and philosophies which are concerned with the issue of gender difference, that advocate equality for women, and that campaign for women’s rights and interests. With the rise of feminism across the world, a new generation of Indian feminists has emerged….
The Self-Discovery of a Teacher in the Novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master
Divyarajan Bahuguna MA(English), MBA, B.Ed. Research Scholar (Ph.D. English) Singhania University. This is an autobiographical novel of Githa Hariharan. Human emotions are excellently expressed through the life of Vasu Master. After the retirement he starts jotting down observations, memories, and thoughts about teaching. He starts to teach Mani. This is a sort of self –discovery….
Time and the Wound in Tristram Shandy: the sense of a quest
Dr. Daniel Thomières. ABSTRACT. To what extent does The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy still make sense at the beginning of the 21st century? We certainly understand Laurence Sterne’s novel differently from his contemporaries. Two centuries and a half have elapsed. Our cultural heritage is different from theirs, as are our reading habits. Today…