Limbad Girishkumar Nagjibhai Ph.D Research Scholar, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University ([email protected]) Abstract This paper is an attempt to study Aesthetics in contemporary Indian Dalit literature. Dalit literature is prominently a literature of social reform and awareness. In the second half of the 20th century, Dalit literature has emerged as a new literary current to address the […]
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Serenity in Insanity: Exploring Love in Sajid Ali’s Laila Majnu
Dr Shruti Rawal Assistant Professor, IIS (Deemed to be) University ([email protected]) Abstract The paper explores the layered notions of love and sanity as depicted in Imtiaz Ali’s Laila Majnu. The movie is a modern adaptation of the classic and tragic love story. The paper intends to not only analyze the movie, in all its hues, […]
The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi
Dr. Arun Singh Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rajasthan ([email protected]) Abstract The paper explores the newly emerging structures of the ‘Empire’: the insidious forms of neo-imperialism seeping into a ‘primitive’ society. Buchi Emecheta’s novel The Rape of Shavi deals with the accidental intrusion of a group of Western people into an indigenous African […]
Women and the Domestic Space in Rashid Jahan’s Parde ke Peechey
Kanika Lakra Ph. D Research Scholar, University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ([email protected]) Abstract Rashid Jahan is remembered today for her radical writings on women’s issues and as an early champion of women’s rights. Her consciousness, as a writer and as a social reformer, is shaped by her life-long […]