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The Speaking Body: Corporeal Symbolism in Arya Gopi\u27s Poetry
No full textPoetry is an amalgam of both melancholy and bliss for Dr. Arya Gopi. She is an Indian bilingual writer who handles a wide variety of themes, the analysis of which would perhaps be a herculean task for a scholar. Her poetry contains everything. It speaks of inner and outer conflicts. It addresses intricacies of human psyche; confronts with life and death alike. Seldom do her words wither to be of a particular theme; instead it embraces everything general. Gopi\u27s collection of poems, Sob of Strings (2016) reveals her keen observation and unique poetic techniques. Her poetry can perhaps be considered synonymous with several of the confessional poems of Sylvia Plath, Emile Dickinson and Kamala Das. Basic human emotions, life, death, nature and the like never really are redshirts here. Another significant aspect of Gopi\u27s poetry must be the vitality of corporeal imagery made use of in Sob of Strings. Body can best used in theatre rather than literature, however, systematic development of bodily symbolism can make a work of literature complete. Body plays a vital role in meaning-making, which is a complex process. Plath and Emile Dickinson have constantly made use of several body centred symbols in order to depict intricacies of the human psyche. So does the author of Sob of Strings. Her poetry thus is a celebration of versatile themes, to justify which the author, without deliberate interruption, uses a handful of corporeal symbols
Alice Walker’s Everyday Use: Decoding Cultural Inheritance and Identity
Get PDFThe complex notion of cultural heritage can be ascribed different connotations in the context of inheritance and identity. Cultural assets can be construed as valuable gifts handed down through generations which sustain as historic souvenirs of an ever-changing ethnic identity. This paper deliberates upon the intricacies of African-American cultural inheritance and identity in Alice Walker’s Everyday Use
Representation of Feminism in African American and Dalit Literature
Get PDFMainstream feminism has remained an elitist concept in India with much less attention and significance in comparison to the feminism conception in western countries. The Indian feminist movement failed to represent the perspectives of the Dalit women that have been subjected in the Indian society since ages. Subsequently, the Dalit women were forced to initiate a separate movement to gain sustenance and representation in the mainstream social conduct. The theoretical representations of the Dalit women could also be drawn from American and African literature that shares experiences of Dalit feminism and subjection on a broader scale. Further, the research reflects Dalit feminism in terms of inclusive feminism that confronts domination of female community in India and elsewhere. Considering the Dalit woman’s writing, the glimpses can be found in the Indian vernaculars in the form of short stories. It is present in the form of Telugu Dalit writing that have been translated into English to reflect the perceptions of the Dalit women and their experiences in Indian discourse
An Analysis of The Intriguing Murder Mystery in Stephen King’s The Outsider
Get PDFThere is no such thing as a perfect crime. In every case, sooner or later the culprit will be found and he or she shall face the law. Even in a case that can be seen as a perfect crime there will be some piece of information left by the criminal. The solving of the case depends upon the ability of the investigator to find out that hint and put it into investigation. But what happens when the crime is not done by an ordinary human and the police officials have arrested an innocent man? Stephen King’s The Outsider is all about such an inhuman being who has done several crimes especially the Raping and Murdering of innocent children. We can’t even think about a situation when we are blamed or even arrested for another man’s crime. But what happens when one experiences a scenario where the innocent is also guilty? This contradiction is portrayed in The Outsider as it follows the story of a detective whose search for the absolute truth leads him to discover evil in its pure form.
Detective Ralph Anderson is all set for arresting Terry Maitland who is an esteemed sports trainer and high school educator for the killing and confrontation of an eleven year old boy, Frank Peterson. All the clues are against Terry Maitland. Ralph Anderson commands to arrest him at a local baseball game in front of his household and the whole horde. But Maitland had a mighty justification, he was in the company of some educators hundreds of miles away and there is video authentication to confirm it. His fingerprints are also there on a book where he claimed to be. How can he be at two places at the same time? However the Intriguing murder mystery is solved at last by the brave efforts of Ralph Anderson and his teammates
The Unaccounted Voice of Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u27s Purple Hibiscus
Get PDFIn our society, values of life is neither constant nor equal to all. Apart from economic conditions, the importance of women in under developing countries still suffers from blind gender disparity. Their voices are always suppressed in family as well as in society. The only solution to raise their importance is at the hand of law. The liberation of women in under developing countries is moving slow like a snail’s journey. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u27s Purple Hibiscus realistically portrays the suppressed voices of African women through the characters Beatrice Achike-the Mama, Aunty Ifeoma, and Kambili Achike. Dissent is never entertained and taken on the right spirit by any government in the world. And therefore, the emotions and the desires of African women are taken unaccounted. This perhaps is the effect of poor literacy, lack of awareness found in under developing territories of Africa. This theme of the unaccounted voice of women is to be discussed in this research paper
Migration and Fusion: Tracing the Roots of Chutney Music, A Journey from Bihar to Trinidad
Get PDFHistorians try to discern the reason for large scale population movement and the effects of those changes. In general, we can divide all the forces into two, pushing and pulling forces, that affect people’s migration. Political turmoil, a lack of employment opportunities or congestion could work as pushing factors. Pulling factors include better life style, job opportunities or having relatives who have already moved. Different ethenic groups encounter one another and the hosting land works as a melting pot in which process of cultural amalgamation happens to create a new form. Chutney Music is the resultant of this very process in which Bhojpuri and Indian folk music are amalgamated with Caribbean calypso and Soca music. This is a fusion of Dhantal and Dholak from Indian continent, Soca beats and Tasha drums from Caribbean island. In this paper we map out the journey of Chutney music from north India to Caribbean island and how it evolved
Globalization and Industrialization: A Menace to Nature and Woman in Usha K.R’s Monkey-Man
Get PDFThe novel Monkey-Man symbolizes the transformation of a peaceful, hustle-less city which was considered as a ‘Pensioner’s Paradise’ into a modernized, IT-hub now aspirationally called as ‘Silicon Valley’. The novelist, Usha, K.R. plots this story in her own native place, Bangalore - the city whose features have been severely tainted in the past two decades. She portrays the transformation of this city from being a blustery town of gardens, a pensioner’s ecstasy and a resident’s paradise into one of the most prominent information technology hubs of India. Presently, it’s an extremely materialistic city, one of the leading metropolis of India with blooming property prices, fanatical traffic and a maddening rush.
 
Analysis of Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve under the arena of Ecofeminism
Get PDFKamala Markandaya is a prominent woman writer and her novels include the element of subjugation that originates from the exploitation due to poverty, caste system and the conflict among values of the people of the East and the West. She has trenchantly presented the issues of women in relation to the environment in her marvelous work Nectar in a Sieve. The manner in which women are sidelined in a male dominated society has been illustrated by her. She identifies nature with the body of a woman and guides the readers to believe that nature, in the same way as woman, is marauded by societies governed by male oriented ideology. In such societies, nature and women, both are treated in an inferior way contrasting the fact that both have an ability to give birth and nourish. This mistreatment has made women conscious of the callousness of the male dominated world towards nature. So, women have come together against this exploitation of nature from time to time as they can relate to nature’s agony.
 
The Voiceless Women: A Study in Shivani’s Bhairavi: The Runaway
Get PDFThe term ‘subaltern’ incorporates the entire people that are subordinates in terms of class, caste, gender and rank, or in any other way. When it operates in terms of class, gender and caste, it is more psychological than physical. Antonio Gramsci coined the term subaltern to identify the cultural hegemony (According to Merriam Webster the word hegemony means the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group).
This paper endeavors to highlight the voiceless Marginalized women in Shivani’s Bhairavi: The Runaway (a translation from the original Hindi text, Bhairavi rendered in English by Priyanka Sarkar). Shivani aka Gaura Pant was a very prolific and voluminous writer, she has many novels, short stories and essays to her credit. The English translation of her works give an insight into the deeper psychological understanding of women. Shivani’s purpose is to give voice to the marginalized women in the society and to explore the discrimination order of caste, gender and class
Dissidence in Nawal El Saadawi’s Two Women in One
Get PDFEgyptian-born physician, psychiatrist, and writer Nawal El Saadawi identifies herself as a historical socialist feminist. In her life that spanned over eighty-nine years, she has fought aggressively for the emancipation of women and men from oppressive structures. El Saadawi’s writings are a mirror that showcases her feelings on various issues plaguing the world. She is a dissident through and through and her novels have women who are equally dissident. As El Saadawi professes dissidence is a necessary tool to fight injustice