Vol 2 – Special Issue (July 2026)

Imayam is a prominent contemporary Tamil writer known for his realistic portrayal of rural life, and marginalized communities. She and I is the English translation of En Kathe. The novel is about Kamla, a widow who moves to a village with her two daughters and meets an unnamed man who is unemployed. He...

Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta is a feminist novel that represents the lived experiences of a woman, whose identity is shaped by social stigma and patriarchal control in the family, through subtle forms of violence. Violence in the novel is represented through psychological illness, rather than physical harm. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence...

Ruth Ozeki herself, being a third culture kid, portrays her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being and the fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness’s from the perspective of third culture kids. Ozeki brings out the sufferings like identity crises and alienation they face in society for being a third culture kid.

This paper aims to examine the psychological trauma and the internalized racism in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison through a psychological lens. It draws upon the Freudian concepts of repression and the unconscious, along with the trauma theory, to examine the psychic fragmentation of Pecola Breedlove and the unresolved childhood trauma...

Autobiography projects life in a pure, lucid and simplistic manner. However, in her autobiography Sight Unseen (1999), Georgina Kleege contests this idea, urging readers to reassess the ultimate nature of life writing. Her autobiographical text on sightlessness becomes a fundamental location to contest conventional notions of awareness, individuality and the boundaries of...

Therapeutic approaches in literature such as bibliotherapy and narrative medicine, assist in processing the psychological aspects of disability. They help rebuild identities, create empathy, and combat ableist ideologies. This paper examines the relationship between guided reading and storytelling in terms of their interface with the disability psyche.

The term ‘psyche’ typically refers to the human mind and its functioning. Narrative Psychology focuses on the construction and interpretation of a character’s story, thereby presenting their identity to the readers. Ralph Linton, an American anthropologist, well known for his concept of role theory, makes a clear distinction between role...

Sefi Atta is a Nigerian-American novelist, short story writer, and screen-writer. News from Home is a short story collection published in 2010. It is a collection of eleven different short stories which deals with the themes of diaspora, identity, alienation, and grief.

This article examines the psychoanalytic components that comprise trauma and memory in Preeti Shenoy’s work of fiction, Life Is What You Make It, focusing on the relationship between repression and its reemergence. With an emphasis on Freudian theories, the research explores how suppressed memories affect the characters' identities, exacerbating their current...

Anxiety is considered one of the most persistent obstacles for beginners in learning a second language. The paper tries to elucidate the major cause of anxiety while uttering second language, and examines the actual reasons for effective barriers. The objective of the research includes how the cognitive factors are interconnected...