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Literary Doubles and Colonial Subjectivity: Brian Castro's The Garden Book
No full text"Literary Doubles and Colonial Subjectivity: Brian Castro's The Garden Book" by Marilyne Bru
Suturing Two Worlds: Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love
No full textSuturing Two Worlds: Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Lov
Didascalia 12: Caption 12 (2022–2023) by Alessandro Morino Ivan, Schiavone
No full textDidascalia 12Caption 12 (2022–2023)by Alessandro Morino Ivan, SchiavoneTranslated by Gianluca Rizzo and Dominic Siracus
How Civil Wars Start, and How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
No full textReview of: How Civil Wars Start, and How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter. New York: Crown, 2022. (320 pages
Kanthapura as “India in Microcosm” in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura: Contesting a Misreading
No full textAgainst the backdrop of the Indian freedom struggle, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura touches on the psycho-spiritual idea of India in a rural setting through motifs and expressions such as “Gandhi,” “Congress,” “Mother,” “Vande Mataram,” and “a thousand pillared temple.” The Kanthapurians are psychologically conditioned to collectively participate in the freedom struggle through a nationalist discourse. However, their peculiar understanding of and attitude to the national movement are unique and do not represent the essence of the multifaceted Indian independence movement. The novel has a limited scope, and it, rather than representing India during the British Raj, mainly constructs an imaginary caste-ridden village. To interpret Kanthapura as “India in microcosm” is to overlook the fictional local/regional nuances in the text and to dilute the complexity of Indianness in favor of exaggerating the “nationalness” of Kanthapura. Kanthapura is a fictional village that appears to embody Ambedkar’s understanding of the Indian village rather than Gandhi’s
The Influence of Colonial Trauma on the Masculine Characteristics of Georgian Identity
No full textThe present paper explores two Georgian literary texts written at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the early stage of Sovietization: Sanavardo by Demna Shengelaia, and Jaqo’s Dispossessed by Mikheil Javakhishvili. I aim to explore the traumatic effects of colonization on Georgian national consciousness and analyze its influence on the masculine characteristics of the Georgian identity. The issue of national self-identification has been raised, with all its sharpness, at every stage of fundamental historical and political changes in Georgia. The permanency of the issue is an indication of the fact that the national self-identification process has been associated with certain historical facts and events that have not been fully realized and existed as not overcome trauma, by society. Such an event is the Russian occupation of Georgia at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on trauma theory, the research shows that in both novels, the writers describe the lives of the main characters who lost their abilities and were unable to make purposeful use of their potential. Therefore, their political and social functions were represented by disregarding reality and distancing themselves from the present. The reasons for the negation of the present refer to the so-called existential fear of reality, which has caused a weakening or disappearance of masculine characteristics of identity such as power, assertiveness, desire to own and control, and individual initiative
