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Prejudicial Treatment in Asif Currimbhoy\u27s Goa
No full textInequalities are ubiquitous throughout the world and have been a defining aspect of society since prehistoric times. They typically get smaller as civilization develops, but they still exist. They have to do with the unfair distribution of certain highly valued characteristics, such as earnings, wealth, standing, expertise, and power among various units, including people, dwellings, social classes, religious congregations, organizations, castes, regions, and nations. An analysis of disparities\u27 primary objective is to identify the factors that influence how the writer is distributed among relevant units and to explain their causes and effects. An Indian writer who writes in English, Asif Currimbhoy, was familiar with experimental American theatre. He wrote plays with modern themes. He addressed issues of race, class, and gender. Post-colonialism is made up of these three components. His dramas thus draw their themes from the currents of modern politics and existence. He has been referred to as a karma yogi and India\u27s first theatre attention voice. For him, the 1965 drama "Goa," which had its world premiere at Michigan State University, is very special. The Indian invasions of Goa in December 1961 are the subject of the drama
From Epidemic to Pandemic: A Memoir of Covid-19
Get PDFFrom Epidemic to Pandemic: A Memoir of Covid-19 published by The Impish Lass Publishing House, India, 2022. pp.120. Rs. 300
Significance of the Deconstructive Turn in Literature: Breaking of Logos in “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats
Get PDFThroughout the history of literary criticism, there have been constant shifts in levels of analysis of the texts. These levels may be literal, metaphorical, authoritative or superficial. The most primitive of the aesthetic theories, the mimetic theory, considered art as the imitation of the aspects of the universe. Around the sixteenth century, the focus was shifted to what effect art has on its audience, then to the artist in the seventeenth century, and finally to the work of art itself around the twentieth century. The advent of post-structuralism in the 1960s was an attack on structuralism’s constant search for an order, a structure, in novels, music, poetry, or visual texts. It is always assumed that a text yields meaning and significance once we untie its ‘core’ elements. Poststructuralists like Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida gave way to a new school of thought that believed in the ‘openness’ of texts, the role of text in the production of meaning and its relation to other texts. This paper focuses on the deconstructive turn and its significance in literature. We shall be doing a reading of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” and try to prove the poem as breaking the Derridean “logos”
D. Gnanasekaran’s Are You My Dad? and Other Stories: A Critical Estimate
Get PDFThe story collection Are You Dad? and Other Stories consists of twenty well-written short stories packed with human emotions of different hues. Each story is neatly packaged in a flawless narration leavened with spontaneous humor and authentic poignancy. A complex human drama unfolds before the reading hands. The characters and incidents portrayed linger in our minds even after we put down the collection. Most of the stories are down-to-earth and readers could see that they are actually moving amongst those characters. His stories are full of significant messages and convey the readers\u27 morals. The necessary tools of story writing are wonderfully displayed throughout the twenty stories. The flow of language and vocabulary are throughout the collection consistent but continuous
APJ Abdul Kalam: A Poet of Human Concern
Get PDFAbdul Kalam Azad, the former President of India, is known as the Missile man of India. He has a great name in scientific development, and despite this, he is thoroughly an Indian poet. His poetry is replete with humanism and intellectuality and presents his human concerns for the nation. He is the paragon for the learners. The aesthetic and harmonious feelings are the remarkable traits of his poetry. His scientific mood can be seen in his poetic diction. He was a versatile genius, and his excellent craftsmanship identified his versatility. His religious faith and love for the nation compelled him to paint the social reality on his poetic canvas. Kalam\u27s poems express human concern, love, peace, and harmony. He succeeds in this attempt by selecting images and symbols from his personal life. Indeed, his poetry abounds in the spirit of patriotism, heroism, and self-sacrifice. His inspiring poems have a marvelous sense of vision, passion, imagination, and innovation. Therefore, it can be said that Kalam was a highly innovative poet of India
Traumatic Familial Relationships in Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed
Get PDFKhaled Hosseini is one of the most acclaimed writers internationally for his sensitive portrayal of characters caught in the trauma of war and the complexities of familial relationships. He was born in Kabul in 1965 and has lived in the US as his family was forced to find shelter there after the situation deteriorated in his own country. His first novel The Kite Runner was an instant success and it established him among the most popular literary writers around the globe. Whereas in The Kite Runner Hosseini portrayed the father-son relationship most touchingly, in A Thousand Splendid Suns, he explored other familial relationships-husband and wife, mother and son and also the bonding of women. In And the Mountains Echoed Hosseini goes a step further and gives us various familial relationships -from various sets of siblings to parents and children. Throughout the novel, the characters are constantly grappling with the complexities and challenges of family dynamics, including issues of loyalty, love and betrayal. This paper is an attempt to analyse the impact of trauma in various ways on people tied to familial bonds
Through the Prism of Science: Exploring the Fictional World of H. G. Wells
Get PDFThe closing phase of the Victorian age, especially the nineties, witnessed radical changes in its massive literary output. As a reflection of collective taste and stable order of reality, the novel was slowly getting marginalized by other genres that would have far-reaching repercussions even in the early twentieth century. This was the period dominated by G. B. Shaw and the Fabians, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Thompson, Kipling, Henley, the early Yeats, Housman and Davidson. Due to several socio-political and economic factors, the unquestioned authoritarianism of the Victorian age was coming to an end, though the sunlight years of the Edwardian era would continue to exude warmth for some more time for the British public. Among these writers, Wells, with his scientific humanism, and Shaw, with his Socialist philosophy, represent new attitudes to society by incorporating radical ideas in their writings
Intersection of caste and gender in Dalit Autobiography: A comparative study of Joothan and The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman\u27s Memoirs
Get PDFIn Dalit literature, autobiography has been an influential mode of narrative. It has been a crucial confessional instrument for expressing the plight of the underprivileged and bringing attention to several levels of oppression experienced by the outcaste. Dalit autobiographies discuss the plight of the Dalit in India and provide insight into how they challenge the power of the upper caste. However, there are two methods to approach this resistance. One, where it discusses the Dalit community\u27s battles against the horrors committed by the higher caste. Second, it has been used as a potential tool to address how women are doubly marginalised in the Dalit community. Dalit women are more marginalised than Dalit men due to the economic, social and cultural factors. In the proposed paper, there will be a comparative study of the two chief autobiographies- one by a male author, second by a female author. The paper would study the representation of gender divide and its intersection with caste atrocities in the selected works. It aims to shed more light on the apparent differences and similarities between autobiographies written by a woman and a man respectively and try to analyse the mode with reference to gender inequality and caste