Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” introduce two heroines, Louise Mallard and Gilman’s unnamed narrator, who struggle against the suppressive nature of the societies around them. The denial of their desires which causes them extreme mental and physical anguish is the traditional norm of a society....
The postcolonial interpretation of shame largely focuses on it as a fractured residue of colonial domination which is closely aligned 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 recognition of the self. Shame tests the man’s ability to withstand the flashing colonial trials...
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. The study excavates an eco-material archive of history from Kang’s work, contending that the landscape bore witness to the Jeju massacre of 1948 and its...
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 alsoproducing negative influence. This paper focuses on Don DeLillo’s Mao II, a postmodern novel that critiques the diminishing condition of the novelist in the modern era....
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.
