Mohamed Hamoud Kassim Al-Mahfedi Attempting to explore Said’s concept of “imaginative geographies,” this paper presents Said’s theoretical understanding of imaginative geographies, by probing his writings on Orientalism, and pointing to the ways in which his theoretical work relates to current geographical accounts. In maintaining that, I make brief stops in the fields of postcolonial, postmodern…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
R.K. Narayan’s The Guide : A Socio-Economic Discourse
Leena Sarkar The article examines the socio-economic problem of the novel The Guide by R.K.Narayan. The characters are situated against the backdrop of Post-Independence economic theories of India and analysed in the light of those theories. There is also a discussion of the impact of westernization and modernization and how the new culture, new ideologies,…
Emancipation of the Woman: A Study of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
A.KUMARAN & Dr.R.GANESAN Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. Mathew Arnold defines literature as a criticism of life. It means…
Detective Techniques Used In Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo And Reckless Eyeballing
Dr. R. Krishnaveni In viewing the peripheral world of wild and black folk culture as a passive spectator of a thematic that does not touch the modernity, rather than as a constitutive moment of modernity. African American writer views the crises of modernity and the subsequent post modern critique solely within the white European –…
Girish Karnad: A Man and Artist—Evolution of His Dramatic Genius
Dr. Krishna Singh Girish Raghunath Karnad is a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, translator and cultural administrator all rolled into one. He has been rightly called the “renaissance man” (Kalidas & Merchant.”Renaissance Man”); whose celebrity is based on decades of prolific and consistent output on native soil. He belongs to a generation that has produced…
The Themes of Love and Sex in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das
Love as a Synaesthetic Experience in R. Parthasarathy’s Rough Passage
Joyanta Dangar ‘Synaesthesia’ is supposed to be the most complex but effective form of what is called ‘sensuousness’ in art and literature. Besides, synaesthesia is a medical condition, and it has nothing to do with I. A. Richards’s concept of “synthesis”, nor with the processes of perception explored in Gestalt psychology. Rajagopal Parthasarathy (b. 1934)…
De Constructing Family and Gender Stereotypes in the Selected Novels of Anita Desai
Dr.M.Gouri Family, as an indispensible social institution has always been a matter of contention and concern for the literary artist. In this new world of the modern and the postmodern, where every conventional idea and concept undergoes change, even the ideas of family, gender roles and the politics of power within the family undergo a…
You Say Utopia; I Say Dystopia: From Idealism to Nihilism in Utopias
Carlos Hiraldo The article argues for a return to a philosophical and political understanding of utopias that includes intentional visions of the better future and for a move away from understanding the term, like some contemporary academics do, as nothing more than a critique of present social conditions and a vague hope for a better…
Daughters of Mothers, Mothers of Daughters: The Heritage of Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine
Basudhara Roy The present paper seeks to explore Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine in terms of its intricate web of mother-daughter relationships that constitute the fabric of the novel’s structure. What does being a mother’s daughter and a daughter’s mother imply in a hegemonic man’s world is the question that Deshpande attempts to articulate through…