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ELIZABETH LALCHHANDAMI PROFESSOR VINOD KUMAR SINGH MASTER OF ARTS ENGLISH FIRST SEMESTER 3 NOVEMBER 2014 Border and Conflicts in The Shadow Lines “border cease to be purely external realities- and perhaps predominantly- what Fitche, in his Reden an die deutche Nation, magnificently termed ‘inner border’ [innere Grenzen]; that is to say- as indeed he says himself- invisible borders, situated everywhere and nowhere”(Etienne Balibar, Politics and the other scene, p.78). The representation of

KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S POTRAYAL OF RUKUMANI AS THE INVINCIBLEWOMAN IN NECTAR IN A SIEVE ABSTRACT Kamala Markandaya has occupied a prominent place among Indian English writers as one of the leading woman writers in English. All her ten novels deal with the themes of East-West encounter, rootlessness, human relationships, poverty, hunger and exploitation. The character of Rukumani in Nectar in A Sieve is stronger than other characters in her novels. Her life is full of hopes and frustrations, pleasures

The marginalization of women in a patriarchal society has resulted in their alienation. Encyclopaedia Britannica defines 'alienation' as "A term used with various meanings in philosophy, theology, psychology and the social sciences, usually with emphasis on personal powerlessness, meaninglessness, cultural estrangement, social isolation or self-estrangement." Alienation implies an individual's feeling or state of dissociation from self, from others and from the world at large. In Greek there are

CHAPTER-II Literary Survey and Review of the Critical Works on Bharati Mukherjee Before analysing Mukherjee’s novels citically, it is important to survey and review the critical works on Bharati Mukherjee and her fictional work. The present chapter provides a general review and assessment of critics on Mukherjee's fiction. In Bharati Mukherjee: A Perspective, Sushma Tondon examines her three novels entitled Tiger’s Daughter, Wife and Jasmine. She also analyses her collections of short stories

Indian Writing in English A discussion of Indian Writing in English (IWE) in all its aspects, with a view to creating some structure and organization in this body of writing. About Me Name: Paritosh Uttam Location: Pune, India View my complete profile Links * Site Feed * My home page * Who's the most authentic of them all? - II * Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most authent... * The native verus the NRI writer * Regional literature versus IWE *

To understand the postcolonial readings of Amitav Ghosh’s novels let us begin by understanding what postcolonial literature is. In this chapter, I will try to understand what the postcolonial literature does by theorizing the entire process of imperialization or colonization. In the following chapters I will try to understand the postcolonial perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s fictional works. As Peter Barry observes in his Beginning Theory, postcolonial criticism emerged as a distinct category only in

paper, the main motive is to portray the Diaspora in the novel of Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies, who is a well known for her writings of diasporic sensibility. There are many other writers other than Jhumpa Lahiri such as Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, V.S.Naipaul who have concentrated on Indian diaspora. Nilanjana Sudheshna Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967, in London, England, to mother Tapati and father Amar, a Bengali couple who immigrated to the

Arun Joshi (1939-93), novelist of the post-independence India, has been classed with Indian English fiction writer such as Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai. His novels reflect the dilemma of human loneliness which has various manifestations in the form of powerlessness, meaninglessness, cultural estrangement, social isolation and self-estrangement. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, a well-known novel, shows the dissatisfaction of modern man from the civilized, cultured and sophisticated society.

Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On (Penguin, 2004) is about a father who delights in the human body, its mysteries, its passion, and the knowledge that it contains and conceals. And a mother who wields the power of her love mercilessly. And Manjari Ahuja, the daughter, who after her husband’s death, is made to feel the truth behind the various relationships. Shashi Deshpande’s novel is about the secret lives of men and women who love, hate, plot and debate, and thereby she, using the metaphor of ‘body’

Satirical Approach to the Short Stories of Khushwanta Singh Goutam Barman Assistant Teacher Narikeldanga High School, Kolkata Abstract The present study deeply explores the satirical approach adopted by Khushwant Singh in his short stories. It shows that the author, resorting to the weapons of satire, hold the vices, evils, follies and abuses, which are unflinchingly stalking the Indian socio-political and cultural milieu, up to severe ridicule and scorn with the humanitarian intent to rectify them