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 […]

Quo Vadis: A Study of K.V. Raghupathi’s The Images of a Growing Dying City

Dr. P.V. Laxmiprasad Assistant Professor, Department of English, University Arts College (Satavahana University) ([email protected]) K.V. Raghupathi’s  third poetry collection: “The Images of a Growing Dying City” is taken up for critical assessment and evaluation in this paper. The volume is a collection in which K.V. Raghupathi has presented 81 sordid images of a city showing […]

Indigeneity in a Nationalist Context: Exploring Alternative Modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s Popular Science Writings

Sutista Ghosh Assistant Professor of English, WBES Kabi Jagadram Roy Government General Degree College, Mejia ([email protected]) Abstract This paper attempts to explore the traits of alternative modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s popular science writings by focusing on how he incorporates indigenous elements in the evidently derivative space of popular science writing for children in the juvenile […]