Janneker Lawrence

Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity from Oneself as Another (1992) provides a framework to understand Ankita Sharma’s psychological journey in Preeti Shenoy’s Life is What You Make it. Ricoeur explains that identity is not fixed but is shaped through the narration of one’s life experiences.

Narratives of illness in young adult literature frequently explore the psychological and emotional challenges experienced by adolescents while facing serious illness. This text depicts how teenagers renegotiate their sense of identity when illness disrupts their lives, and examines the process of identity development in Brave Enough by Kati Gardner, through the experiences...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects many areas of life, including education. Around the world, schools and colleges have started to use AI in different ways. In India, the use of AI in school education is still at an early stage, but the government and policymakers are showing strong interest in its...

This paper explores the autobiographical undercurrents in select poems by Maya Angelou namely, "Still I Rise," "Caged Bird," "Phenomenal Woman," "Woman Work," "Our Grandmothers," "Alone," "The Mothering Blackness," and "On the Pulse of Morning" as sites of contestation where suppression, violence, discrimination, and identity crises are confronted and transcended.

This paper examines the psychological landscape of urban marginality in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Linethrough the lens of trauma theory, narrative psychology, and cognitive literary studies.

Autobiography projects life in a pure, lucid and simplistic manner. However, in her autobiography Sight Unseen (1999), Georgina Kleege contests this idea, urging readers to reassess the ultimate nature of life writing. Her autobiographical text on sightlessness becomes a fundamental location to contest conventional notions of awareness, individuality and the boundaries of...

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...

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...

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...

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...