Professor and Head in P.G. Dept. of English and Research Centre
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
'By God! If women hadde written stories'' (The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale) The word 'Womanhood', first of all in Europe, appears in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales which defines a woman together transcending individual roles and experie...
Patriarchy is social system wherein males dominate not only in the family or society but in the whole world. In this system, males are considered to be superior to women. Besides, men have more control on economic, social and political resources. The...
This article delves into the philosophical and psychological reverberations of absurdist literature'particularly as articulated by Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus, Eugene Ionesco in The Bald Soprano, Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness , a...
Rapid developments in different fields, together with cultural confrontations are creating a paradigmatic shift in people's understanding of selfhood and Identity. Identity is a multidimensional word. In Psychology, identity is a person's conception...
This paper explores Mikhail Bakhtin's Epic and Novel, focusing on how the novel breaks away from the rigidity of older literary forms like the epic. While the epic speaks from a fixed past with a single, authoritative voice, the novel is fluid, dialo...
Mahasweta Devi's famous short story 'Draupadi' (1978) is a Bengali composition that has grown incredibly popular in recent years. The story mainly focuses on the life of a tribal Naxalite woman who fights for both her existence and for her people of...
Friendships symbolize a multitude of human values, including trust, support, and companionship. They are a vital source of social connection, contributing to well-being, mental health, and even longevity. Beyond tangible support, friendships play a r...
This paper examines the interwoven themes of memory, trauma, and identity in the novels of Tabish Khair, an acclaimed voice in contemporary postcolonial and diasporic literature. Khair's characters, often displaced across geographies and cultures, gr...
The paper titled 'Echoes of Alienation and Politics of Communal Segregation as Reflected in Geetanjali Shree's Imagination', seeks to explore the thought process of Geetanjali Shree in the context of India in all its shades. It also examines that Gee...
Buchi Emecheta's fictions explore the diverse experiences of motherhood in various socio-cultural contexts, ranging from the pre-colonial Ibuza to the post-colonial Lagos and London. Her female characters face the existential challenges of being Nige...
Though woman empowerment has been flourished worldwide and educating girl child is made mandatory by many governments to bring change in the image of woman in the society; still, literacy cannot immaculate the polluted mentality of a person in a patr...
Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan is a powerful Dalit autobiography that exposes the systemic oppression faced by Dalit communities in India. This paper examines the underexplored theme of food and contaminated spaces as markers of caste-based oppression a...
Using a comparative analysis of the selected works of Kiran Desai, this paper discusses how the characters face the complexities of their identity and of discovering themselves. Kiran Desai is a well-known Indian-American author who has broken new li...
Kiran Desai's novel, The Inheritance of Loss is a powerful and thought provoking exploration of the diasporic experience, digging deep into the complexities of quest for identity, culture, and belonging. The novel moves along together nicely through...
This paper will deal with Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss from multicultural perspectives as reflected in the novel. Multiculturalism is the by-product of globalization and colonialism. multiculturalism is a society at ease with the rich tapest...
