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The Evolution of Indigenous Identity in Native Indian Drama: A Comparative Study of Cultural Representation from Metamora to The Thanksgiving Play
Get PDFThis paper seeks to understand how Indigenous identity and representation have changed over time in Native American drama. For works historic and contemporary, the characters, themes, and cultural narratives present in plays written by and for Native peoples may provide insight into the social and political climates of the times when those plays were penned. The difference between the portrayal of Indigenous peoples in plays such as Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags and the portrayal of Indigenous characters in plays like The Thanksgiving Play and Body Indian is striking and significant. Playwrights who have been part of the historic tribal memory of their peoples may serve as an Indigenous lifeline to live historical memory rather than politicized “wokeness,” which seems to be the societal expectation of plays these days
Dipak Giri’s New Woman in Indian Literature: From Covert to Overt
Get PDFDipak Giri’s New Woman in Indian Literature: From Covert to Overt, Vishwabharati Research Centre, Latur, Maharashtra, ISBN-9789387966741, 2018, Pages- 260
A Feminist Analysis of the Changing Roles of Women in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
Get PDFChinua Achebe is one of the pioneering figures of African Fiction. In his several critical essays and interviews Achebe has discussed the role of an author belonging to a postcolonial country, and declared that he writes his fiction with a definite role. He has penned five novels including his masterpiece Things Fall Apart (1958) in which Achebe, with his realism, has taken up the task of telling his people the greatness and weaknesses of their Ibo culture. Here, the object of his criticism is the colonizer British exercising power under the guise of a civilizing mission. On the other hand, in one of his most discussed novels Anthills of the Savannah (1987) he takes the role of a conscience builder in a new nation engulfed in cutthroat power politics; and the object of his criticism shifts to his own people, the corrupt educated elite and military officials who have failed to contribute in nation building. However, the role of women in Nigerian society is also one of the prominent issues depicted significantly in both these celebrated novels. The paper focuses on a feminist analysis of these novels with the aim to find out the changing roles of women in Nigerian society depicted in these novels. It takes recourse to the method of explication and close reading of these primary texts and the secondary data in the light of Feminist Criticism.  
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories, Amrita Pritam
No full textPinjar : The Skeleton and Other Stories by Pinjar, Amrita Pritam, Khushwant Singh (Translator), Tara Press; First Edition (1 January 2009), ISBN-13 : 978-8183860970, Pages-240
Perspectives on Mizo Culture: A Critical Study of Laltluangliana Khiangte’s Folktales of Mizoram
Get PDFPerspectives on Mizo Culture: A Critical Study of Laltluangliana Khiangte’s Folktales of Mizoram by P. V. Laxmiprasad, ISBN: 97801680534405 Academica Press, Washington-London, 202
Identity Exploration and Representation of Motherhood in the Poetry of Ranu Uniyal
Get PDFRanu Uniyal, one of the important personalities of confessional mode, is always under review for her obsessive openness and pervasiveness, but she reaches her destination by displaying the sterling image of patriarchy. Uniyal’s poems not only present the everyday lived reality of ordinary women but also the strong independent women having power and who must outbrave the societal regulations and norms to assert their identity as human beings full of love and affection. Ranu Uniyal’s poems incorporate the strong experience both as a mother and as the daughter of powerful mothers whose personalities shape their identity as women. Among the modern Indian poets who are writing in English today, she has been ranked with such poetesses of dissatisfaction and discontent as Kamala Das. By engaging with the everyday life of her mother and her motherhood, the poet tries to understand the reality of universal motherhood in a poetic way. The studies of Ranu Uniyal’s poems add a new dimension to Indian poetry in English through the subtle and honest probing of man-woman relationships. She does not debunk the whole ideology of motherhood in her writing. Instead, her critical understanding of motherhood paves the path for women’s agency, autonomy, and identity regarding motherhood
Partition as Reception: A Critical Study of Indian Partition Literature in Translation
Get PDFPartition as Reception: A Critical Study of Indian Partition Literature in Translation, Ed: P. V. Laxmiprasad, Authors Press, New Delhi, 2023, ISBN: 978-93-5529-493-7 Pp 122