Janneker Lawrence

Cultural Memory in Catastrophic Time: Trauma, Temporality, and the Reconstruction of the Psyche in Partition and 9/11 Fiction

Jul, 2026Sep, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

The aim of this paper is to postulate the idea of ‘catastrophic time’ as a vast psychic split in the cultural memory framework. The 1947 Partition of India and the September 11 attacks are two major catastrophic incidents that upset the flow of subjective time, identity and remembrance violently. Using...

Invisible Authority: Women’s Ethical Labour and Tragic Outcomes in Danmei Novels

Jul, 2026Sep, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

Chinese literature has often portrayed women as figures of sacrifice and care rather than as active decision-makers. In contemporary Danmei (gay) Literature, attention is usually focused on male–male relationships, cultivation power, and sect politics. This paper examines The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, a...

Echoes of Assam: Reflection and Cultural Identity in Rebirth

Jul, 2026Oct, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

This research paper focuses on Assamese culture, identity and female subjectivity through the theme of displacement and emotional construction in Jahnavi Barua's novel Rebirth.

Desire and Domestic Disquiet: Exploring Emotional Instability and Familial Fragmentation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Jul, 2026Oct, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

This study explores the conflict between unwanted emotional attachment and familial responsibility in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth by using the Family Systems Theory.

Fourteen Myths, One Legend: A New Historicist Reading of The Myth of John Henry in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days

Jul, 2026Oct, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

Myths and folklores are living records of tradition, culture, and beliefs transmitted from one generation to the other. The prologue in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days (2001) presents fourteen variations of the myth of John Henry.

Search Of Selfhood and Alienation in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Shadow From Ladakh

Jul, 2026Oct, 2026|Vol 2 - Special Issue (July 2026)

One of the prominent writers in Indian Writing in English, Bhabani Bhattacharya is a notable novelist, who depicts social crises for the readers. Bhattacharya’s fifth novel Shadow from Ladakh was published in the year 1966. This novel brought the novelist, Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 1967. The novel is...

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Jun, 2026Aug, 2026|Vol 2 - Issue 2 (April 2026 - June 2026)

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Murakami and Capitalism in Market: A Postmodern Reading of Dance Dance Dance

Jun, 2026Aug, 2026|Vol 2 - Issue 2 (April 2026 - June 2026)

A market is a physical as well as a virtual concept that runs the economy of a country with the supply and exchange of essential things for day-to-day life. This study deals with the dangerous effects of the capitalist-centred market according to the novel Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami.

Architectures of the Moral Self: A Psycho-Spatial Reading of Kohlberg’s Developmental Stages in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia

Jun, 2026Aug, 2026|Vol 2 - Issue 2 (April 2026 - June 2026)

This work looks at C.S. Lewis's Narnia books - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) - using Lawrence Kohlberg’s model of moral growth. Instead of treating fantasy only as hidden lessons, it suggests Narnia becomes a kind of outer mirror for inner change...

Pathological Narcissism in “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Jun, 2026Aug, 2026|Vol 2 - Issue 2 (April 2026 - June 2026)

This essay examines pathological narcissism in Charles Gilman Perkins' "The Yellow Wallpaper". It primarily examines John's actions from the perspective of pathological narcissism. The study describes how John's narcissistic behavior affects the narrator by examining psychological concepts like grandiosity, vulnerability, and lack of empathy. The study looks at how pathological...

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