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The Personal as Political: A Study in Nandini Sahu’s Sita (A Poem)
Get PDFWhen authors attempt to pen down their ideas on an issue relevant to the society, their own social contexts are bound to seep in into their texts, with or without their awareness of the same. In that sense, all writing is political. Applying this dictum of the cultural materialists, this paper seeks, among other things, to study the meeting points of the personal and political in Nandini Sahu’s groundbreaking epic-scale Sita (A Poem). Focus will be on the analysis of the text’s subversive potential, the demythification of Sita--the heroine of the epic Ramayana. How well Nandini Sahu’s ‘Sita’ transcends the boundaries of time and space in the process of claiming her rightful identity will be addressed herein. The texts and contexts of Sita have always been a matter of great critical debate; critics, at all times, have constructed and deconstructed this character according to their own politics. Sita–the character from Sage Valmiki’s Ramayana–is at once simple and complex. Patriarchy cleverly pushes to the sub-texts the ‘behind-the-curtain’ politics associated with the multiple texts, with almost singular narrative, that claim to be all faithful renditions of Sita’s story. Her complexity can be understood only when a deeper reading of such sub-texts is properly presented. It should be interesting to find out how Sahu’s narrative falls in or out of line with the popular narratives on Sita. And while observing this, the politics of Nandini’s Sita will be attempted to be brought out through this paper
Introspective Voyager: A Collection of Critical Essays on the Poetry of K.V. Raghupathi Edited by Dr.P.V.Laxmiprasad
Get PDFIntrospective Voyager: A Collection of Critical Essays on the Poetry of K.V. Raghupathi Edited by Dr.P.V.Laxmiprasad, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2014, pp 256, ISBN978-81-7273-850-1, Price. 995/
The Quintessence of Quotes and Speeches: A Study of Swami Vivekananda’s Thoughts to Inspire and 25 Greatest Speeches, Ed. P. V. Laxmiprasad
Get PDFThe Quintessence of Quotes and Speeches: A Study of Swami Vivekananda’s Thoughts to Inspire and 25 Greatest Speeches, Ed. P. V. Laxmiprasad, Nitya Publications, India, 2021, Pp. 153
Social Consciousness Towards Kinners in Sanjay Johari\u27s Play Kinner Maa
Get PDFSanjay Johari is the newly sprouting figure in the field of Indian English literature. He is the spokesman for his country\u27s doubts, emerging issues and deteriorating condition of the people. In his first play, Kinner Maa, he tries to awaken social consciousness towards kinners who live a life of aloofness in the contemporary world. Generally, people think that kinners are uncounted persons of the society where nobody shows one\u27s sympathy for them. The leading cause of this belief is that they are counted as neither male nor female, but it does not mean, they are not a part of society. They have the same passion and humanistic feelings as others have. We have no right to think they are invaluable persons in society. The humane outlook of Sanjay Johari makes the reader realize how to show sympathetic behavior towards them. Though the problem of gender discrimination is rapidly taking a step in the contemporary world. So many writers also express newly emerging problems like gender issues LGBT, homosexuality, transgender marginalization etc.in their works. Shobha de, Mahesh Dattani, Arundhati Roy etc. wrote many plays on these problems. Sanjay Johari has also tried to draw a picture on his Canvas of writing, and he has given different shades of people on it. Thus, Sanjay Johari tries to evoke human consciousness for such a community through this play. His only purpose is to highlight the realistic picture of the society in which people have automatically divided themselves into different categories. In fact, they are living in the \u27Superiority Complex\u27 where there is no place for such a miserable community. The truth is that the people of contemporary society are living in illusion, and perhaps they feel happy, and they are indifferent towards the subalterns and marginalized people
The Generational Question in A Raisin in the Sun: A Critical Analysis
Get PDFOne of the seminal works in the African American body of theatre, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun accurately represents the experiences of African American life in urban centres of the US when segregation was in its last stages. Its portrayal of the black community’s repression is realistic in the themes of limited opportunities and acute poverty. This paper focuses on Hansberry’s accurate rendering of black culture and society in the play and how she penetrates the deception and hypocrisy of segregation that eroded the Black community\u27s confidence in American society (and dream). The paper also attempts to answer the generational question that the younger family in the play faces through the prospect of social mobility. It traces the family’s social and economic journey and explores the possibilities of future Youngers’ escape from ghosts of the past and new harsh realities. The play’s conclusion, with Walter declining the offer to sell the new house, was the Youngers’ resistance to oppression and inequality. It also initiated a new social struggle as the family sought social mobility to live in the new setting
Shedding the Metaphors by Nandini Sahu
Get PDFShedding the Metaphors by Nandini Sahu, Black Eagle Publications, USA, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-64560-348-1, Pp: 260
Bridges Across the Nation: The Vitality of Indian Literatures in English Translation. Edited by Dr P. V. Laxmiprasad
Get PDFBridges Across the Nation: The Vitality of Indian Literatures in English Translation. Edited by Dr P. V. Laxmiprasad, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2021, pp. 290
“Can a wild stream and a girl be one and the same?”: An Ecofeminist Reading of Select Short Stories from Nandini Sahu’s Shedding the Metaphors
Get PDFThis paper attempts an ecofeminist reading of select short stories from Nandini Sahu’s Shedding the Metaphors (2023). The stories explore the complexities of human emotions, relationships, and experiences and are diverse in their themes of love, loss and self-discovery, where the personal frequently intersects with the political. They contain imagery and symbolism from the natural world to provide the setting and allegorize the distinct experience of being a woman in a patriarchal world and assert the interconnectedness of all beings. Most of the stories have female protagonists whose journey can be traced to draw attention to patriarchy’s exploitation of women as well as nature. In some of them, gender intersects with issues like sexuality and class to demonstrate how systems of oppression mutually reinforce each other. While connecting feminism with ecology, ecofeminism contends that women\u27s oppression and ecological degradation are outcomes of patriarchy and capitalism. However, ecofeminism is not restricted to connections between nature and women, but it is about the relationality and interconnectedness of all beings, hence arguing against all systems of domination. human beings. This paper will attempt an ecofeminist reading of select short stories from Sahu’s collection. Close textual analysis will expose the underlying oppression of women and the environment and how they are intertwined. Such a reading will be geared towards making a call for dismantling all hierarchies and fostering universal sympathy for all beings, human or non-human
From “Neti” to “Deathless Goddess”: The Feminine in Nandini Sahu’s Sita and Shedding the Metaphors
Get PDFIn both Sita and Shedding the Metaphors, Nandini Sahu offers revolutionary interpretations of womanhood, effortlessly embracing nature, tradition, and modern cultural norms. She says she "pours" her own "image" and "personality" into her characters and stories, drawing on her own experience and interactions (Shedding the Metaphors, Preface, 13). Her approach embraces subjectivity and empiricism as well as her broad variety of readings, including both literary and academic works, even though it is not necessarily autobiographical. Nandini Sahu also makes Sita her own in Sita, revitalizing Sita\u27s mythology in the process and giving her a strong sense of modern relevance in poetry that is never prosaic and is driven by argument. Her women characters emerge as strong and impressive, with a strong emotional maturity and a marked sense of empathy and morality but willing to reveal their raw emotions and spontaneity. Their exploitation by uncaring individuals is seen in keeping with a patriarchal society, that is destructive of both femininity and nature. The strong single mothers and single working women manage to draw on their capacity to love and take care of others to feed their strength. Her women are Goddess-like and like primal Nature: abundant, giving, strong, eco-feminist, and ready to break free from stereotypes and conventional metaphors. The subjectivity of Sahu\u27s Sita is strongly Indian feminist and highly modern. She moves fluidly between the past, conceptions of the past, and present patriarchy, where female foeticide still haunts India, without missing a beat (of argument or metre). She probes into every facet of women\u27s existence, connecting old conceptions of male supremacy with present clichés