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 the representation of the human psyche in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”by T. S. Eliot and “Notes on the Reality of the Self” from The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham.

Migration has been a recurring theme in transnational literature. But it has been mostly representing adults’ perspective, rather than that of children. This paper examines the experience of migration through a nine-year-old child in Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us (2012).

Freedom is perceived by people of the state according to the governance, power and age. Freedom of speech from the past is modified to freedom of expression in comments of the present. Byung-Chul Han, a German philosopher, theologian andcultural theorist refers to this transformation of expression of thoughts in the digital era in Psychopolitics. According to that, contemporary power operates less through...

In this paper, the concept of trauma and the human mind is discussed based on The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi, translated by V. Geetha, through a theoretical framework of Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth.

This paper explores nostalgia and psychological alienation in Benyamin’s Goat Days by utilising Jerome Bruner’s Narrative psychology.

This research paper analyses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” as a critical exploration of faith, hypocrisy, and human nature within Puritan society.

This paper explores the complex interplay of memory, trauma, and diasporic identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

This paper proposes a psycholinguistic model for the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the formation of narrative identity in second language (L2) discourse.

The paper aims to examine Amma Ariyan (1986), directed by John Abraham, as a powerful exploration of memory and politicalconsciousness.