Shubhanku Kochar Research Scholar MDU Rohtak Before a detailed analysis of Tanvir’s play Charandas Chor as a study in paradox is undertaken, it will be in place to explain the meaning of the term, paradox. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines it as, “a statement containing two opposite ideas that make it seem impossible or unlikely,…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Romantic Elements in Claude McKay’s Poetry
Dr. S.T.Waghmode Associate Professor, Department of English, P. V .P. Mahavidyalaya, Kavathe Mahankal, Dist sangli, Maharashtra, India. & Mr. Somnath Kisan Khatal Editor, Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, ISSN2249-9598. Introduction Emergence of the ‘New Negro’ is the special feature of the early 20th century American Literature. In the second decade, all the African-Americans, who had…
The Quest for Authenticity and Cultural Identity: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Mahboobeh Khaleghi Ph.D Research Scholar University of Mysore Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon presents a family’s history, which invariably reflects the collective history of the Afro-Americans. This sequential story revolves around Milkman Dead and his unwitting spiritual and physical journey to his ancestral home. Marc C. Conner points out that finding home is not, as…
An Endeavor for Identity in Mudrooroo’s “Wild Cat Falling”- A Critical Study
Janaiah Saggurthi Asst.Prof. of English K.L.University Vaddeswaram, Guntur Andhra Pradesh- India Pin-522502 I need the clefts and crevasses of, well, of a city about me. Surrounded by man-made rock, I am at home and can hide away from all that I must hide away from; but, but, I drag the world in after me, and…
Conflation of Victorian Binaries and Creation of Dangerous Womanhood in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret
Oindrila Ghosh Assistant Professor Head, Department of English Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya In the heart of the Victorian age, the 1860s, flourished the sensation novel. Its initiation was in the hands of Wilkie Collins, who’s famous The Woman in White (1860) started the trend that was to be adopted by many of his contemporaries like Charles…
A Meeting of Streams: Bapsi Sidhwa as a Folk Historian and Myth Maker
Dr. G.A. Ghanshyam Iyengar Professor of English Govt. M.L. S. College, Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) 495 555 “Preserver of the collective tradition, a folk historian and myth maker.” M. G. Vassanji Vassanji has rightly laid out the crucial role of a postcolonial writer in the above line. A postcolonial writer plays dual roles of a preserver…
Promoting Multiculturalism in R.Ramanathan’s Who is Kalam?
A.Edwin Jeevaraj Professor & Head, Department of English Adhiyamaan College of Engineering Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India. A general definition of Multiculturalism is, the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. A common policy to…
The Treatment of Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Name Sake
D.Ebina Cordelia Assistant Professor in English Holy Cross College,Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu. Indian writing in English is one of the voices in which India speaks. It spreads the traditional and cultural heritage of India within India and also introduces it to the whole world. It is Indian in sensibility, thought, feeling and emotion and experience but submits…
Feminist Perspectives in the novel Yajnaseni of Pratibha Rai
Daxa Thakor Department of English, Shah N.H.Commerce College, Valsad. Gujarat. Among the contemporary fiction writings from Orissa, ‘Yajnaseni’- the story of Draupadi, is perhaps the best known woman’s voice. Endowed with a reformist mindset its writer is a passionate crusader against social evils prevailing in the society. This work reveals the social injustice done to…
Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Tennyson’s In Memoriam: An Anatomy of Lament
Bibhudutt Dash Lecturer in English, SCS College, Puri, Orissa. It is clear that the most “compelling cause” of lament for Tennyson in In Memoriam (1850) is the loss of Hallam in that the poem is characterized by the depth of grief where the great grief is known to, is shared by, is consoled by, and…