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Mother-Daughter Inhibitions in the Lives of a British Prostitute and a Cambridge Graduate
Full text linkGeorge Bernard Shaw’s main purpose in writing Mrs. Warren’s Profession is to discuss another problem play “the problem of sexual prostitution and its economic roots.” His aim is to awaken the dormant conscience of the people by driving home to them the dreadful truth that it is not the woman but the society at large which is accountable for the social evil of prostitution. He makes this clear in his Preface to Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Shaw says, “Prostitution is caused, not by female depravity and male licentiousness, but simply by underpaying, undervaluing and over working women so shamefully that the poorest of them are forced to resort to prostitution to keep body and soul together.” The inefficacious and effeminate culture that grapples the society with infidelity sustains the growth of prostitutes in the world and grim with every sprite and draught of male dominance that prevails. Society at large mocks the gullible that adroitly breaches the lacuna of sanctity leading to prostitution.
 
Cohesion: its Types
Full text linkWhenever we read a passage or hear some conversation, we find certain resources which determine whether the passage/conversation is a unified whole or not, whether it is meaningful or not. These elements or resources which provide organization to the passage or the conversation not only make it meaningful but also coherent. Thus, the elements which help us to make out the meaning are called cohesive devices and their act of providing coherence is called cohesion
Ecology in African Literatures
Full text linkEcological concerns have been the content of literature since the beginning of man’s creativity. Ecology deals with the relations between nature and the natural. In literature, ecology illustrates the relation between nature and human nature. In ecological writing, nature has been granted the status of the great Mother by indigenous communities. Literature and nature are interlinked; nature is the outer world often portrayed in literature. Therefore it is obvious that literature and ecology are interrelated. Nature writing is self reflexive. It reveals at once the complexities of nature as well as the creative psyche. Eco factors are rarely practiced consciously in African literatures. African writers are in a “state of nature,” in perfect harmony with environment. Their literature has therefore a rural orientation on the one hand and a despise of urban background on the other. There is an inherent longing for lost rustic serenity in African literatures. In African literatures, the celebration of nature and wildness is more dynamic than in any other literatures. This celebration is part of community life. African communities have close relationship with nature and conservation ecology is part of everyday practice. Writers like Amos Tutualo, Camera Lay, Mongo Bette, Ferdinand Oyono, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Alan Panton, Ben Okri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Ama Ata Aidoo and J.M. Coetzee have attempted to demonstrate these facts through their works
Reflection of Young Martyr Kanaklata Barua and the Dependability of Assamese Women in India’s Freedom Movement
Full text linkA teenage girl, who turned freedom fighter jumped into India’s Independence Movement against British, sacrificed her life during the Quit India Movement of 1942 and became a martyr at just 17 is none other than Kanaklata Barua. She was the daughter of Krishna Kanta Barua and Karneshwari Barua of Barangabari of Darrang District of Assam on 22nd December, 1926. She was Granddaughter of Ghana Kanta Barua. Ghana Kanta Barua was known for his hunting skills and thus was popular as Gahana Chikari or Ghana the Hunter. Kanaklata Barua lost her mother and father when she was 5 and 13 respectively. She was compelled to leave school from third standard as she had to take care of her younger siblings. The ancestors of Kanaklata Barua belong to the kingdom of Dolakharia Barua of the former state of Ahom and they gave up the title of Dolakharia and retained the title ‘Barua’. Kanaklata Barua became the first martyr of 1942 revolution. She is referred as ‘Shaheed’ or ‘martyr’ and ‘Birbala’ as she had been hardheartedly shot dead by police firing
EBAKU BISU: The Spring Festival of the Deori Tribal Community of Assam
Full text linkThe Deori tribe is one of the foremost ethnic tribes in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India. They have their Society, culture and traditions which are unknown treasures for the Anthropologies, sociologists and the Researchers. The Deoris were originally priests and worshippers and depended mostly on agriculture for their livelihood. They have their own language to converse amongst themselves. The present study Ebaku Bisu-The Spring Festival of the Deori Community of Assam is comparable to the Rongali Bihu of the greater Assamese community. Here lies the rationalization of the study of the particular topic
Role of Literature in Age of Globalization
Full text linkMy effort in this paper is to understand the impact of recent world-wide economic and technical trends such as globalization, privatization, e-commercialization, e-communication and e-socialization on the cultural and ideological production of the world, especially postcolonial societies such as India in postmodern era. How have these trends impinged upon culture in general and literature in particular? To what extent can our study of literature benefit from some of the currents taking place in the domain of economics and technology? Further, in the postmodern context, what sort of explanatory models might be developed to account for certain literary tendencies and practices that are widely discernable? In a sense, then, this paper is concerned not with the analysis of specific texts and their meanings but with what makes these texts visible, marketable, and meaningful in the larger context of our times. I am also interested in the role that economic and technological forces play in the process of bringing popular culture in literary texts in place of ‘high seriousness’ in postcolonial societies and how it can survive in long run of time with conserving traditions and without hurting innovations in postmodern human society where “men sit and hear each other groan; where but to think is to be full of sorrow; where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes; and new love pine at them beyond tomorrow” (Keats 1832, p.132)