People migrate from one geographical location to another for various reasons. Their migration is due to employment opportunity, higher education, war, and natural calamities. Migrants from developing countries often face many difficulties including segregation based on their skin complexion. In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel the main characters often migrates from their...
Mamang Dai's Stupid Cupid has attracted scholarly attention for its representations of multiculturalism, internal diaspora, psychogeography, ecology, and urban modernity. While these approaches have significantly enriched critical understanding of the novel, they have largely treated Delhi as the setting within which migration and identity are negotiated rather than examining how urban space...
The researcher focuses on the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, written by Zora Neale Hurston, an African American writer, in the year 1937. The author picturises the struggles of a coloured woman in various aspects during the era of Jim Crow laws, that enforced racial...
In this digital era, technology has changed the way English is taught and learned in the classroom. The audiovisual method gives students opportunities to learn through both words and visuals. These methods improve learners’ learning style and motivate them to acquire fundamental language learning ability. English Language Acquisition is supported...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” introduce two heroines, Louise Mallard and Gilman’s unnamed narrator, who struggle against the suppressive nature of the societies around them. The denial of their desires which causes them extreme mental and physical anguish is the traditional norm of a society....
The postcolonial interpretation of shame largely focuses on it as a fractured residue of colonial domination which is closely aligned with inferiority, humiliation, and inadequacy. While most of the recent research on Gurnah’s fiction focuses on the themes of exile, trauma, memory and hybridity, this research paper narrows down into the theme of shame as one’s footsteps into the recognition of the self. Shame tests the man’s ability to withstand the flashing colonial trials...
This paper examines the representations of historical and generational trauma in Han Kang’s 2021 novel We Do Not Part through the primary lens of material ecocriticism. The study excavates an eco-material archive of history from Kang’s work, contending that the landscape bore witness to the Jeju massacre of 1948 and its...
Historically, novels played a significant role in shaping people’s lives. However, in the contemporary era, media has largely taken over this role, offering various benefits, while alsoproducing negative influence. This paper focuses on Don DeLillo’s Mao II, a postmodern novel that critiques the diminishing condition of the novelist in the modern era....
