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Impressions of The Agonised Women in Padma Sachdev’s “Caretaker”
Get PDFRegional short stories in translation have always been a pasture of research in the field of English literature. It opens a vista of information, debate and discussion on the cultural and social crisis faced by the people lying hidden in the smaller pockets of our country. Jammu region is embedded with a rich heritage of Dogri language with an idiosyncratic regional flavour of its folk-tales and short-stories. Translation of Dogri works into other languages has helped the readers in the country and across borders, to peruse the social and cultural milieu of Jammu region. This paper critically examines the Dogri short story “Caretaker” by Padma Sachdev which reveals the agony, insecurities and position of Dogra women in the male-dominated society.
In the earlier Dogra society, women suffered at the hands of complex social‑cultural norms, rituals and patriarchal models of suppression. They were often forced into ill‑matched marriages and dohri (reciprocal marriages). Further, they were expected to become obedient wives to their husbands while their own identity got submerged under the burden of family responsibilities, catering to husband needs and rearing children. They often longed for a “home” of their own blessed with love and respect. However, the marital home failed to provide them this blessed home and the parental home became alien to them after marriage. The relationship between husband and wife seems like that of an orient and the occident as man becomes the agent of power, domination and male-centric prejudices against woman. On the other hand, woman acts as an orient who suffers from the societal prejudices for misinterpreted identity and enslavement for her social-cultural representation. As Simone de Beauvoir in her book, The Second Sex analyzes that man fundamentally tries to oppress women by characterizing them as the ‘Other’. Men impose his will on the other and women are cursed with the feelings of inwardness and suppressed voices. “[Man] attaches himself to woman -not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.” Hence, Padma Sachdev tries to echo a critical view of the patriarchal social institutions, which subjugate women’s identity for the gains of male supremacy. She also focuses on an unsaid bonding between women as they can sense the misery of each other. They may get corrupted by the feeling of insecurity at some point of time but soon they reconcile as they realise the pain of the other
Gayatri Devi - \u27A Princess Remembers\u27: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur
No full textIn A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi narrates her life story and allows her readers to get glimpses of her life of excess and extravagance, how she was raised in a lavish palace which staffed over 500 servants, and shot her first panther when she was just twelve.
This book provides an incisive look into the extraordinary life of one of the world\u27s most fascinating women and an informal history of the princely states of India. Her life story is a blend of courage, romance, devotion, losses and elegance. It also depicts the condition of women in royal class. There is dichotomy in higher class women’s position, where women were victims of polygamy, veil system and other evil customs of society. It also presents the seeds of Marxism, the polarity of class in Indian society. On the one hand, there are aristocrats, leading a life of luxury; on the other hand there are poor who can’t survive
A Psychoanalytical Study of ‘Klaus Mikaelson\u27 in the Trilogy The Originals
Get PDFKlaus Mikaelson is a character who always leaves you spellbound. He is actually one of his kind. A hybrid and an original vampire. Moreover, vampires have always been a source of attraction to readers interested in gothic literature. The purpose of this study is to psychoanalytically elucidate the character Klaus Mikaleson in the Trilogy The Originals by Julie Plec. Using psychoanalysis theory, this study analyzed the character more closely and provided us with an even clearer picture of his personality. Klaus Mikaelson’s personality changes based on the situation and exposure to varied characters. His personality shifts from a heartless, highly conniving, and cruel character to one who feels remorse and guilt
The Question of Humanism: A Radical Humanist Reading of The Select Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Get PDFCormac McCarthy has often been hailed as a writer’s writer. His writings are difficult to classify as they evoke a complex perspective. A recurring problem in his novels is the ambiguous nature of virtue and violence. It is my aim to look into their dynamics in the context of radical humanism. It will shed light on human nature as presented by McCarthy, with its aspects of virtue and violence. In a world increasingly suffering from violence, where individuals strive for freedom it is important to address the question of radical humanism and its interaction with primal human nature, virtue and violence. A common thread is represented by various questions regarding human nature, free will, pure evil, nature of God, level of morality, language and meaning. The characters have little or no capacity of mind or consciousness and their encounter with the world is not mediated by laws of morality, politics or religion. In other words, the world we are facing “is void of moral meaning”, it is a world that gravitates around a nihilistic core, a “morally nihilistic world.
Feminization or Homoeroticism: The Double Standard of Male Body
Get PDFThe representation of human body in popular culture has always been a matter of controversy. This controversy applied and still applies in women\u27s body, particularly in commercials. The feminist critics accuse that women are objectified in the popular culture. The feminist movement of 1960’s did not only raise the issues of female rights upon their own body; however, it brought change in the meaning of men\u27s body as well. The meaning of men\u27s body came in equal manner in-line with female body in social landscape. The objectification of male body in popular culture remains crucial. The male\u27s body has become a matter of gaze, which is not only a female gaze but voyeuristic gaze of males themselves. The sexually overloaded images of males in fashion magazines, newspapers, commercials have changed the way we see the males\u27 body as brave, strong, and tough. The male\u27s body, however, has been feminized as an erotic body along with masculine adjectives in Paco Rabanne\u27s perfume commercials
An Analysis of Cultural Alienation and Trauma in Neel Mukherjee’s A Life Apart
Get PDFThe significant role of Trauma theory in literature lights the psyche of an individual precisely. The twenty first century paves the gateway to contemplate the struggles and the conflicts of inner self. Sigmund Freud is the pioneer to set forth the psycho-analytical theory in distinctive aspects in the late twentieth century. He is the root for all other contemporary writers to follow suit. Neel Mukherjee is one of the foremost novelists in English literature, who depicts the protagonist’s distress in an alienated land. Memories play a vital role in which the protagonist connects the past memories with that of the present. The protagonist finds the way to escape from his bitter life by becoming a homosexual. This paper aims to project the traumatic condition of the protagonist in Neel Mukherjee’s A Life Apart.
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A Study of Cross-Culturalism in Derek Walcott’s “Ti-Jean and His Brothers”
Get PDFThe verifiable disengagement of the Caribbean Islands has suggestions for the social orders that have risen. The unplanned method of the "disclosure" of the spot and the fierce way of occupation by the colonizing powers have offered ascend to what a few researchers allude to as an indistinct society. Except for the indigenous Indian populace which was to a great extent quickly annihilated, the occupants of the Caribbean either moved or were persuasively shipped there. With this combination of individuals of various races and strict convictions and with various thought processes of being in the Caribbean, it was hard to make a typical Caribbean ethos, particularly, given the major disparities made by the organization of subjection. The target of this paper is to look at the suggestions these chronicled real factors have on the Caribbean social framework and at last on its writing, especially regarding the sensational structures. The technique is to initially investigate the essential content - TiJean and his Brothers - and afterward have response to important basic materials trying to additionally explain regarding the matter. At long last, it is discovered that these recorded predecessors have offered ascend to the making of a plural society with various arrangements of social qualities existing next to each other the other. This social assorted variety as reflected in Derek Walcott\u27s play, Ti-Jean and His Brothers is talked about in this paper
Improving Attributes of Teacher Education: An Analysis
Get PDFTeacher education has been a cause of serious concern. Despite several commission and committees the state of affairs in these schools and colleges of education remains pretty much the same as it used to be three or even four decades ago. The paper analyses the new practices, policies and procedures in the area of teacher education that affect the quality of teacher education and accordingly the education and the nation. The attempt here is to describe several innovations that have been introduced in this field for instance NCTE, continuing Education and its centres, correspondence Education, experiments, Technology, Microteaching, UGC Panel on Teacher Education and population Education etc. These methods are indicative that the role and responsibility of the teacher is vital for the individual personality and socio-scientific as well as socio-cultural progress of society and humanity.
 
Eco-critical Elements in the Selected Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra
Get PDFJayanta Mahapatra is a well-known, distinguished, Indo-Anglican writer whose poems and short stories are acknowledged worldwide. He was awarded the Sahithya Akademi Award for his work Relationship in 1981, which enabled him to gain the name of one of the doyens of Indian English Poetry. His major themes are all linked with his native place Orissa. His poems mentions Puri, Konarka, Chilika lake, Bhubaneswar recurrently and each of them are pictured in detail. An Ecocritical study on his poems is worth probing as it deserves more attention and consideration in the current state of environmental crisis. His sole inspiration is his interaction with the nature and his intimate relationship to it. As ecocriticism rightly perceives it as the study of the relationship between human and nature, deserves a detailed study with his poems. River daya in his poem takes the role of a bearer of history and is the memory of the past valor and glory of Orissa. The study here focuses on the elements of ecocriticism in his selected poems
Deplorable Condition of Women and Patriarchal Domination in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride
Get PDFParsi writers have contributed a lot to Indian English Literature. The Indian Parsi novelists express their feelings in the form of art. The novelists reflect the psychological dilemma of the minority community and its identity crisis through their works. Being a Parsi writer, Bapsi Sidhwa sees a kind of mental migration when she hybrids from her native land, and pours her feelings and thoughts in to her novels. She is known for her exploration of women’s inner psyche who aspire to live in modernity, inept to break traditional quality intrinsic in them. Most of her writings contain a pinch of migration and male dominance taste when one chews them. The expatriate writers face multi-cultural situation which merges with their personal anguish due to prejudice. They project the cultural confusion and confrontation of a multi-racial society. The quest for identity, aspiration for belongingness and love for native land is found as a part of non-erasable conscious in all expatriate writers. This paper reveals the socio-cultural background and the authoritative patriarchal Pakistani society in the novel The Pakistani Bride The novel portrays how the institution of marriage and patriarchy deplores and represses an orphaned girl’s self-identity. It also pinpoints the problems of a little girl Zaitoon as an alien in an alien land or culture. It enforces deportation as a pathway to sculpt for belongingness of her ‘self’. At the end, Zaitoon succeeds by rejecting the alien culture and tradition