Janneker Lawrence

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. This is done...

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...

This research paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the psychological conflict and the construction of female identity in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock, Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.

Psychological realism is a major literary movement that foregrounds the inner lives of characters, emphasizing consciousness, memory, emotion, and moral conflict over external action. Emerging prominently in the nineteenth century and reaching artistic maturity in modernist fiction, this approach transformed narrative technique by prioritizing subjective experience. This paper examines the...

This paper examines Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan through the lens of cultural trauma, exploring how the novel portrays the violent partition of India and its enduring impact on individuals and communities.

Memory studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the processes through which individuals and societies remember, reconstruct, and transmit the past. It critically examines the relationship between memory, identity, trauma, and narrative, particularly highlighting the instability and subjectivity of recollection. Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans (2000) explores memory as both redemptive...

Spirituality takes a profound role in shaping human consciousness, morality, identity, and communal relationships in folkloric fiction or novels rooted in oral tradition. This present study examines the role of spirituality in shaping human experience in Easterine Kire’s Spirit Nights. 

This paper examines Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Haran through the lens of migration and gender, positioning Sita as a migrant subject whose displacement is shaped by historical rupture and patriarchal subjugation.

Wittgenstein contends that the way language has meaning is not through being associated with something by a definition, but by being used socially or in ‘forms of life.’ This paper examines how the film Lord Livingston 7000 Kandi coordinates several competing language games in ways that present urban outcasts and an indigenous tribal community in a forest landscape. 

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.