Dr. Julia Devardhi & Dr. Deepika Nelson School of Foreign Language Studies Haramaya University Ethiopia-251 Achebe: Let every people bring their gifts to the great festival of the worlds’ cultural harvest and mankind will all be richer for the variety and distinctiveness of the offerings. Introduction Chinua Achebe’s early novels have been popularly received for…
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Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: An Articulation of Gay Identity Crisis
Jaspal Singh Mahesh Dattani, the Sahitya Academy Award winner playwright gives the homosexuals of India a voice to articulate, probably for the very first time in the Indian theatre in his plays like On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Do the Needful and Bravely Fought the Queen. He spotlights the crisis that gays face as…
Quest through Memory: The Gunny Sack
Itty Sharma M.G. Vassanji is a diasporic Canadian writer who depicts the double migration of his South Asian Characters. His characters are mainly Indian Muslims of the esoteric ‘Ismaili’ faith (referred to fictionally as the Shamsi Sect), who made their first voyage to East Africa in the late nineteenth century as part of the labour…
Postmodernist Problematics in Jerzy Kosinski’s Pinball
Irfan Mohammad Malik Research Scholar Department of English University of Kashmir Jerzy Kosinski was one of the promising novelists of the twentieth century America who achieved the status of a celebrity with his three successful hits The Painted Bird (1965), Steps (1968) and Being there (1971) but his suicide was taken as an act of…
Importance, Problems, Perspectives and Drawbacks of Translation Studies
S. Gokhila Research scholar Anna University of Technology Coimbatore Dr. V. Thiyagarajan Professor & Head Department of English Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Sathyamangalam Tamil Nadu Introduction The Art of Translation has become essential. All over the globe in all walks of life, ’translation’ plays a vital role. There is no rule that a single…
Francis Deng’s Political Novels and the Claim of One Sudanese Identity
Ezzeldin Abdelgadir Ahmed Elmadda Introduction Francis Deng’s novels try to bridge the gap between the people of then called Sudan before the split of the country into two Sudans: North and South. In introducing his novel Seed of Redemption Deng asserts that” The book stems from the profound conviction that what divides the Sudanese people…
Illusion and Reality: A Psychological Exploration of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet and Hughie
L.D.Easter Raj Densingh Assistant Professor of English, H.H.The Rajah’s College (Autonomous), Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, India “The only force that keeps man going,” said O’Neill, “is the dream and the illusion and the pursuit of the unattainable.” Illusions serve as defense mechanism to characters to deceive themselves thinking that they have already achieved their desires and also…
Sex in Lawrence
Dilip Kumar Sen Assistant Professor & Head of the Department of English, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata. D H Lawrence above all other writers excited and still excites love and scorn of equal intensity. And the fuel of this excitement has always been the very mode of his shattering the veil of reticence hiding the…
Crisis of Classification: An Overview of Julian Barnes’ Mainstream Novels
Digambar S.Kulkarni Hon.Shri Annasaheb Dange A.C.S. College, Hatkanangale Introduction Julian Barnes was born on 19 January 1946. Being a son of French language teachers, he had a chance to learn about French language and culture in his school days. From the early age of his life, he developed his interest in France, French authors and…
The Hunger Motif: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
– P. Prasanna Devi Assistant Professor of English, SFR College for Women, Sivakasi – 626 189. Tamil Nadu. Literary depictions of hunger had been a powerful motif in the writings of many writers across the world. Because the act of eating takes such an essential place in the day-to-day life of the humans as well…