Vol 2 – Special Issue (May 2026)

Narrating the Female Psyche: Silence to Self-Articulation
This paper represents the narrative of the female psyche through silence to self-articulation in That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande, published in 1988.
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Social Media Influence on Second Language Acquisition
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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Traces of the Ordinary: Observational Memory in Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors
This study analyses the observational narrative technique used by Annie Ernaux in Exteriors to represent everyday life in suburban Paris. Unlike her earlier works, which focus on personal memory and inner emotions, this text emphasizes external observation and present-time reality.
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Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotional Isolation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
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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In the Nests of Motherhood: Maternal Wounds and Subjective Trauma in Susan Fromberg Schaeffer’s Falling
Subjective trauma is referred to as an individual experience. It is a unique, internal and psychological experience of adistressing event, and values the impact of the event as it is perceived, processed and captured by the individual. Falling as a novel, reveals maternal influences on this ground, and analyzed with female identity, it covers...
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Reading, Remembering, Recovering: Therapeutic Narratives in Larissa Behrendt’s After Story
This paper examines Larissa Behrendt’s After Story through the dual lenses of Bibliotherapy and Narrative Medicine, exploring how literature and storytelling function as therapeutic practices to foster healing and resilience.
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The Forensic Reconstruction of Social Chaos: Debris, Disorder, and the Deconstruction of the Social Contract in Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean
This paper explores the application of Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity to Zadie Smith’s novel NW. Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (self-hood) provides a framework for understanding the fragmented identities of Smith’s characters, who navigate the tensions between continuity and transformation in contemporary urban life.
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Sameness and Selfhood in Lived Experience: A Ricoeurian Reading of NW
This paper explores the application of Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity to Zadie Smith’s novel NW. Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (self-hood) provides a framework for understanding the fragmented identities of Smith’s characters, who navigate the tensions between continuity and transformation in contemporary urban life.
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Confronting Curbed Trauma and Attaining Catharsis through a ‘Ghost’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
The pivotal character Beloved in Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a mysterious character. The other characters in the novel interpret Beloved as the ghost of Sethe’s dead daughter, restored in the form of a young woman who wants to take revenge on her mother for killing her. There is another interpretation that she...
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From Anxiety to Articulation: Harmonizing Cognitive and Socio-Cultural Dimensions in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
Anxiety is considered one of the most persistent obstacles for beginners in learning a second language. The paper tries to elucidate the major cause of anxiety while uttering second language, and examines the actual reasons for effective barriers. The objective of the research includes how the cognitive factors are interconnected...
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