Dr. Vivek Dube Assistant Professor, Humanities Jawaharlal Institute of Technology, Borawan, District Khargone (M.P.) Kamla Das is regarded as one of the most prominent writers of Feminine sensibility. As a singer of feminine sensibility she started writing poetry on the themes of love and lust. This theme persists from one poem to another due to…
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Subalternity Revisited: unhu/ubuntu/Existentialist Intersubjectivity and Ancestral Silence in Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda
Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo This paper theoretically rereads pre-colonial Shonas’ subalternity in Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993) in the context of a critique of postcolonial theory and the rise of African studies. It argues that contrary to conventional theories of subalternity, in Vera’s novel however, subalternity does not only arise from racial or class difference. Instead, as…
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Dissent and Resistance in Dalit Literature: A Study of Om Prakash Valmiki’s Selected Short Stories
Dr. Vinod K. Chopra Lecturer in English, GGSSS Hamirpur, (H.P.) India 177 001 In Indian society caste system is still deep rooted even after more than sixty-five years of independence. Caste system in India is not only the age-old and depth oriented socio-cultural phenomenon but it has also been working, since time immemorial, as the…
Ideological Import of Names in Lineage Panegyrics in Yoruba Films
Ogunkunle Victoria Oluwamayowa Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye- Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. ABSTRACT It is well known that language use in cultural productions is not ideologically free. This is especially true of Yoruba language usage. The Yoruba people as a group believe in encoding their experiences, values, customs and so on…
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Lacan’s Metonymic Displacement and its Relevance to Post-Structuralism
Bornali Nath Dowerah Guest Lecturer, Dept. of English, DHSK College, Dibrugarh. Abstract The concept of metonymic displacement is not new which Jacques Lacan has introduced in his essay “Insistence of Letter in the Unconscious” (Lacan 1966). It has originated much before when Saussure asserted the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in language. A similar line of…
New Orientalism in Literature: A Critical Overview
M. S. Veena Dr. P.V. Ramanathan Assistant Professor, Department of English Professor, N.S.S. College, Rajakumari, Idukki, Kerala; Department of English Research Scholar, Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India Kollam, Kerala, India Orientalism is a much discussed and debated term in postcolonial studies. It has acquired many shades of meaning through centuries. Starting off as…
War, Violence and the Poetry of Ted Hughes: A Reflection
Binda Sah Assisstant Professor Department of English North Lakhimpur College North Lakhimpur, Assam (India). Abstract: The two devastating wars account for the streak of violence and animality in Hughes’ poetry . The absolute intellectual deadness and loss of human values caused by World War –I, further aggravated by World – II, altered man’s attitude towards…
Movies are Literature Reborn: A Metamorphosis of an Author’s Imagination
Natana Vasuki U. Ph D Scholar, SASTRA University, Thanjavur , Tamil Nadu, India There is no story sans plot, there is no literature sans story and there is no movie sans literature. Literature and movies go hand in hand since the dawn of movies around the turn of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century,…