A Study of Curfewed Night and The Collaborator Tasleem Ahmad War Since 2008, the English literature of Kashmir has gone through a process of resurgence and this offers a glimpse of hope in the dark clouds of Kashmiris. The good news is that their grey clouds have plentiful silver lining. This gets verified by the…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
A Sense of Ignominy in The God Of Small Things
R.A. Vats (Research Scholar, Mewar University, Rajasthan) (Assistant Professor, Accurate Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida) Rakhi Sharma (Research Scholar, Mewar University, Rajasthan) (Assistant Professor, I.T.S. Engineering College, Greater Noida) “The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we…
Religious Training and Byronic Psychology
Umesh G. Tayade Asst. Professor and Head, Department of English At Arts, Science and Commerce College, Chikhaldara, Distt. Amravati – 444807 (M.S.) Despite Byron’s consequent aversion to traditional observances, he was always acutely sensitive about religious beliefs. At the age of nineteen Byron had finished reading Hugh Blair, A Scottish Presbyterian divine and popular writer…
Malayali – English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to the Impact of Spelling
C.V. Thomas Associate Professor, St. Stephen’s College, Uzhavoor, Kottayam, Kerala. Introduction There are more than thirty major languages in the Indian social milieu. The educated sections of the speakers of India’s ‘national languages’ constitute the Indian English bilinguals who use English as their so called second language (L2). When one learns a second language after…
Aboriginal Woman Autobiography and the Problematics of Identity in Sally Morgan’s My Place
Dr Arnab Kumar Sinha Assistant Professor in English The University of Burdwan Burdwan, West Bengal. In her autobiographical novel My Place (1987) Sally Morgan makes an attempt to trace her family history by matrilineal descent. Sally comes to know about her Aboriginal past when one day her grandmother Nan in a mood of despair reveals…
Archaism: Survival of Heritage Of The Past
Dr.N R Sawant Associate Professor and Head Dept.Of English Shivraj College Gadhinglaj Member Board of Studies In English Shivaji University Kolhapur Classical or ancient culture has its own dignity. So archaism also has its own dignity or grandeur. Archaism can be considered as the survival of ancient ethical values and culture. Archaism:- Archaism means the…
Dalit Autobiography and Education: An Analytical Study
Prof. S.D. Sargar Head, Post Graduate Dept. of English, Mahatma Phule College, Panvel. (India) The history of the evolution of mankind shows that from the ancient times, human beings have preferred to live in groups for one or the other reason. This attachment to one’s group made it possible and easier for the members to…
Transforming Realities vis-à-vis Postmodern Indian English Fiction
Dr. Sanjiv Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of English, Central University of Haryana The towering figures of Indian English Fiction like Raja Rao, Mulkraj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Kamala Markandaya had a strong commitment to expose the harsh realities of life to effect the desired transformation in society. Nationalism, partition, poverty, peasantry, subjugated women, rural-urban divide,…
The Handmaid’s Tale : The Carving Out of Feminist Space in Margaret Atwood’s Novel
Dr. P.Madhurima Reddy Asst.Professor in English Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad-500075. Andhrapradesh. Introduction In Canada the modern feminist movement started in the early 1970s. It was an outgrowth of the women’s liberation movement of America of the late sixties. The women’s liberation movement in Canada showed women as a severely oppressed group. This…
Elusiveness is Resistance in J. M. Coetzee’s Life; Times of Michael K
K. Narasimha Rao Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore (A. P.) J.M. Coetzee in Life & Times of Michael K portrays a tragic fable of colonialism that surpassed the boundaries of his native South Africa. The novel is written in response to a particular political and constitutional debate in South Africa in…