Gender And Its Representation In Literature And Popular Culture Gender has been an issue, inextricably related in various forms to literature and popular culture. Gender as a cultural concept cuts across the traditional notion of a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’. It has rather encompassed all kinds of human existence. In the post modern era, gender […]
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Dr. Bashabi Fraser’s The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play
Debapriti Sengupta Student of Bachelors in English, Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata ([email protected]) To condense an epic of 24000 verses into a limited sphere without causing any harm to the age old sentiments that is associated with it is not a very easy task. However, Professor Emerita Dr. Bashabi Fraser in her book The […]
Partition Trauma, Nostalgia and Rootlessness: A Reading of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters
Dr. Dipak Kumar Doley Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University ([email protected]) Abstract The violence of the Partition of India in 1947 is comprised not only of physical wounding but of psychological wounding as well. The different tales of memory, nostalgia and trauma remain embroiled not so much in the national discourse as in the […]
Love, Compassion and Relationship: Balancing the Act in Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo
Dr. Alka Singh Assistant Professor of English, Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University ([email protected]) Abstract The concerns for the environment, fish biology and oceanography have gained growing importance in children’s literature. A considerable number of literary and visual texts have been found exemplary and exciting in disseminating knowledge, so far as children’s psyche is […]