Janneker Lawrence

The Beat Generation is known for their quest for spontaneous expression and altered forms of spiritual consciousness. Known for using psychedelics and other illicit substances, Beatniks revered deviancy not only in their lives but also in their craft. Their works often featured these substances as a thematic concern, or were...

This paper explores nostalgia and psychological alienation in Benyamin’s Goat Days by utilising Jerome Bruner’s Narrative psychology. It emphasizes the psychological struggles of Najeeb rather than the physical and social issues. This paper contends that Najeeb Muhammed's alienation stems not only from his physical alienation in the desert, but also from the disintegration of his sense of identity.

Jodi Picoult’s Handle with Care is a novel that questions, challenges, and contests with uneasy interrogation of law, ethics, and the vulnerable body. It is an interrogation of the wrongful birth lawsuit that involves a child suffering from Osteogenesis Imperfecta. This article submits a psychoanalytic reading of Handle with Care.

Zadie Smith holds a significant place in the contemporary British Literature. Her works revolve around multicultural background, its complexities, and the exploration of identity, race, and class. In the short story “Hanwell in Hell”, Hanwell is the central character who undergoes emotional isolation after the death of his wife and...

Manchester by the Sea (2016) by Kenneth Lonergan, presents grief not as a transient emotional response but as a permanent psychological condition that serves the self from its past, its relationships, andits sense of belonging. This paper examines how parting in its many forms functions as a foundational experience of grief in the human psyche, arguing that every significant separation constitutes a kind of mourning. 

Imayam is a prominent contemporary Tamil writer known for his realistic portrayal of rural life, and marginalized communities. She and I is the English translation of En Kathe. The novel is about Kamla, a widow who moves to a village with her two daughters and meets an unnamed man who is unemployed. He...

Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta is a feminist novel that represents the lived experiences of a woman, whose identity is shaped by social stigma and patriarchal control in the family, through subtle forms of violence. Violence in the novel is represented through psychological illness, rather than physical harm. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence...

Ruth Ozeki herself, being a third culture kid, portrays her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being and the fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness’s from the perspective of third culture kids. Ozeki brings out the sufferings like identity crises and alienation they face in society for being a third culture kid.

This paper aims to examine the psychological trauma and the internalized racism in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison through a psychological lens. It draws upon the Freudian concepts of repression and the unconscious, along with the trauma theory, to examine the psychic fragmentation of Pecola Breedlove and the unresolved childhood trauma...

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...