Janneker Lawrence

In Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, the main character's survival depends on her ability to master the "Theory of Mind," which is the ability to think about other people's mental states. This paper examines Klara's psychological evolution as she endeavours to delineate the "human heart" through meticulous observation and cognitive...

The research paper examines the unnamed narrator’s struggle in finding his sense of identity and belongingness both in the homeland and the host land.

Shabars are tribal people who reside in forested areas. The forest land defines cultural values and their independence. This creates an integrated intimacy with nature. In the novel, The Book of the Hunter by Mahasweta Devi, Shabars encounter urban extension. The urbanised regions are termed as civilised. Such civilised region becomes a...

Mankind traces a deep-seated historical, cultural, and philosophical connection with water and water bodies. It is this interlaced and strengthened bondage shared between mankind and waters, which is evident through the manifold facets as outlined in human progress and civilization, upon which waters have left an indelible mark. The recent emergence...

The postcolonial interpretation of shame largely focuses on it as a fractured residue of colonial domination which is closelyaligned 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 recognitionof the self.

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.

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 also producing negative influence. This paper focuses on Don DeLillo’s Mao II, a postmodern novel that critiques the diminishing condition of the novelist in the...

This paper explores trauma, memory, and reconstruction in Anuradha Roy’s All the Lives We Never Lived.

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

The fiction of Franz Kafka is widely recognized for its intense portrayal of anxiety, alienation, absurdity, and existential despair. His protagonists often find themselves trapped within incomprehensible systems of authority, burdened by obscure accusations, and subjected to oppressive bureaucratic structures, that seem both impersonal and omnipotent.