Vol 2 – Special Issue (May 2026)

Therapeutic Literature: Bibliotherapy and Narrative Medicine in Disability Studies
Therapeutic approaches in literature such as bibliotherapy and narrative medicine, assist in processing the psychological aspects of disability. They help rebuild identities, create empathy, and combat ableist ideologies. This paper examines the relationship between guided reading and storytelling in terms of their interface with the disability psyche. The paper has...
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Power, Authority, and Psychological Control
This paper explores the complex relationship between power, authority, and psychological control as it is portrayed in literary narratives. Using the theoretical frameworks of surveillance and disciplinary power developed by Michel Foucault, as well as interdisciplinary viewpoints from social ecology and neuropsychology, this analysis explores how literary works reveal the...
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Role vs Status: A Psychological Discourse in Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me Series
The term ‘psyche’ typically refers to the human mind and its functioning. Narrative Psychology focuses on the construction and interpretation of a character’s story, thereby presenting their identity to the readers. Ralph Linton, an American anthropologist, well known for his concept of role theory, makes a clear distinction between role...
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Hydro Emotions and Water as a Landscape of Emotional Vulnerability
While twenty first-century posthumanism places its emphasis on technology and cyborgs, narratives in the field of blue humanities remain an under-theorised field of study. Inside the sphere of blue humanities too, the exploration often sticks to the blue medium’s capacity for trauma, labour and exploitation or climate crisis. Scholars of...
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Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Psychological Engagement in Language Learning
Storytelling has long been used by people to express their thoughts, feelings, memories and perspectives․ Digital storytelling provides learners with a platform to narrate their stories with digital images, voice, music and text․
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Materialism, Childhood Trauma, and the Unconscious in The Rocking-Horse Winner
The advent of social media has revolutionized the way we communicate, interact, and learn languages. This paper explores the influence of social media on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), highlighting its potential benefits and challenges.
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Alienation and the Search for Self-Identity: A Feminist Reading of Sefi Atta’sNews From Home
Sefi Atta is a Nigerian-American novelist, short story writer, and screen-writer. News from Home is a short story collection published in 2010. It is a collection of eleven different short stories which deals with the themes of diaspora, identity, alienation, and grief.
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The Nexus of Trauma and Memory in the Genesis of Bipolar Disorder in Preeti Shenoy’s Life Is What You Make It
The research article highlights the theoretical framework of Afrocentricity in Americanah and On Black Sisters Street. It revises the Afrocentric culture, resistance, and memory of Ifemelu and Sisi by reclaiming their migration in the Western structure.
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Culture, Resistance, and Memory: Afrocentric Revisions in Americanah and On Black Sisters Street
The research article highlights the theoretical framework of Afrocentricity in Americanah and On Black Sisters Street. It revises the Afrocentric culture, resistance, and memory of Ifemelu and Sisi by reclaiming their migration in the Western structure.
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Consensual Power of Monetization and Manipulated Identity in William Gibson’s Spook Country
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day explores the themes of nostalgia, alienation and emotional loss through the life of Stevens, an English butler who reflects on his past while travelling through the countryside. The novel is narrated through Stevens’s memories, which gradually reveal the sacrifices he made in the name of...
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