| 1 |
Author(s):
Editor.
Page No :
|
Contents
Abstract
Contents Vol 1 Issue 1
| 2 |
Author(s):
Editor.
Page No :
|
Editorial
Abstract
Editorial
| 3 |
Author(s):
Editor.
Page No :
|
Contributors
Abstract
Contributors
| 4 |
Author(s):
Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamudi.
Page No : 1-11
|
Transcending Monologic Impulses to Write and Read Literature Dialogically: Perspectives from Mikhail Bakhtin.
Abstract
Abstract: There seems to be a great urgency and necessity to familiarize ourselves with principles of dialogicality in our understanding of any narrative – be it literary, cultural, or historical texts, as the world is becoming frighteningly rigid and polarized. Literature that once gave deep insights into human condition has already become so politically charged with loud rhetoric, that takes away our ability to appreciate diverse genres that classic literary works deploy. With these observations in mind, this paper gives a broad introduction to the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, with a hope of generating deeper interest in his works. There is much to be learnt from the Bakhtinian oeuvre – for it not only shows what a dialogic world looks like with its strong philosophical underpinnings, but also provides us with sharp analytical tools to detect and create dialogical texts. Furthermore, the Bakhtinian concepts allow us to navigate an open-ended and pluralistic world without negating or undermining either the self or the other. Bakhtin’s perspectives affirm the potential for growth in a heterogeneous world and that perhaps is the need of the hour.
We must renounce our monologic habits so that we might come to feel at home in the new artistic sphere which Dostoevsky discovered, so that we might orient ourselves in the incomparably more complex artistic model of the world which he created.
| 5 |
Author(s):
Prof. Lily Want.
Page No : 12-19
|
Writing the Self in Afghanistan: Foregrounding Western and Islamic Feministic Perspectives
Abstract
Abstract
Postcolonial feminists not only accuse Western feminists for ignoring the similarities and differences in the struggle of women worldwide but also reject the idea of a global sisterhood. Thus the wider feminist movement within the gamut of the theoretical framework of postcolonial feminism proclaims a cultural perspective beyond the Western world by acknowledging the individual experiences of women around the world. Affiliated with Black Feminism, Postcolonial feminists seek to bring issues of ethnic conflict and racism into feminist discourse. In her article “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Andre Lorde makes a pertinent statement: “…as white women ignore their built-in privilege and define woman in terms of their own experiences alone, then women of color become “other” which prevents the literary work produced by women of color from being represented in mainstream feminism”.
This paper is a modest attempt to explore and analyse the self-writings of three Afghan women writers: The Favoured Daughter by Fawzia Koofi, A Woman Among Warlords by Malalai Joya and The Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah to promote all-inclusive and democratic feminisms that accommodate diverse and multiple feminist perspectives of Third World women. All the three writers in their respective memoirs are seen subverting the multifarious difficulties Afghan women tend to face in their everyday life even as they reinforce the Western Eurocentric feminist ideology that presents the Third World woman as victim to her culture and tradition. The paper also argues how the US interference in Afghanistan and the subsequent fight against terrorism was framed as a fight for gender equality when what is happening in Afghanistan is a patriarchal institutionalisation of Islam and not a promulgation of the Islamic feminist perspective.
| 6 |
Author(s):
Chaitali Giri.
Page No : 20-27
|
I hated all of it (my people) as much as I loved it : Indigenous Quest for Identity and Nomadic Existentialism in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed.
Abstract
Abstract:
‘The term “indigenous” only make sense against a history of European colonization and a subaltern experience as a colonized people.’ (Kocoglu 69) History has witnessed a prolonged deprivation of people who are the true offspring of their own earth and of whom the world later was discovered recounting anecdotes. The Metis-Indian of the northern part of America, the halfbreeds of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed, faced and are still facing statelessness borne out of their ancestor’s kindheartedness. The Canadian Metis, now-a-days known as the First Nation people, are the products of the union between the European and the North American natives.
This presence of double blood had given them the identity of ‘halfbreed’. What all they wanted were permanent lands to live in and an inclusion into the main race of the country. They struggled, rebelled, protested and left no possible stone unturned only to be heard. Consequently, they pined, mourned, cried, spread violence among their own people to cope with their frustration. With no life, no future, no hope of having any in coming time, they only hoarded and led a nomadic existence fighting sometimes with the capturers of their land, sometimes with their needs and sometimes with nature. This paper will focus on that nomadic existence with no land of their own in their own country which Campbell, being a Metis woman herself, has simply fabricated in her tale without impinging it in any deep political colour: Native writers are the combination of the old and the new. They speak storytelling and being authors in the same breath. (Grant 59)
| 7 |
Author(s):
Prof. Shivali Kharbanda.
Page No : 28-35
|
What the Body Remembers: Material Memory and the Social Construction of Space
Abstract
This paper examines Shauna Singh Baldwin’s novel What the Body Remembers within the context of material memory and its ability to act as a stimulus for recollection, revealing personal and collective histories of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. Given the recent ‘spatial turn’ in social sciences and humanities, the paper allows us to understand how during Partition, different spaces acted as social constructs, sites where Partition migrants and refugees enacted and negotiated their identities. Through a close examination of places and spaces the novel opens up to, the paper explores how these spaces were socially manipulated as a kind of changeable material that is produced as much as it produces.
| 8 |
Author(s):
Dr. Pradipta Sengupta.
Page No : 36-50
|
Intertextual Resonances and Dissonances in Bratya Basu’s Hemlāt the Prince of Garānhātā
Abstract
Abstract: The hallmark of any great text not only lies in its enduring popularity throughout ages, but also in other writers’ interest in writing the text in a new way. Thus texts and textual materials have been recycled, replicated, and rewritten in a number of ways. This has spawned the germination of intertexts in recent and even earlier times. In this essay I would like to dwell on an intertext of Hamlet by an established contemporary Bengali dramatist:the Bengali play Hemlāt the Prince of Garānhātā by Bratya Basu. Broadly speaking, this essays intends to analyse Basu’s Hemlāt the Prince of Garānhātā with the theoretical tools of intertextuality to identify the points of affinity with and departure from Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Prince of Denmark
