Volume IX, Issue II, November 2020 - April 2021

ISSN 2319-8281

Approved by UGC and enlisted in the UGC-CARE List (Sr. No. 42) in Arts and Humanities section.

A Refereed (peer-reviewed) Bi-Annual National Research Journal of English Literature/Assamese/Literature/Folklore/Culture

Members of Advisory Body

Volume IX, Issue II

• Dr. Gayatree Bhattacharyya, Former Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati
• Dr. Dayananda Pathak, Former Principal, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati
• Dr. Prabin Chandra Das, Former Head, Dept. of Folklore, University of Gauhati
• Dr. Dwijen Sharma, Professor, Dept. of English, North Eastern Hill University (Tura Campus)
• Dr. Bibhash Choudhury, Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati

Members of the Editorial Body

Volume IX, Issue II

• Dr. Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Madhya Pradesh
• Dr. Manash Pratim Goswami, Dept. of Media and Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu
• Dr. Pranjal Sharma Bashistha, Dept. of Assamese, University of Gauhati
• Dr. Rabi Narayan Samantaray, Dept. of English, Aeronautics College, Berhampur University
• Dr. Durga Prasad Dash, Dept. of English, Gunjam College Berhampur University, Odisha
• Dr. Breezmohan Hazarika, Dept. of English, D.C.B College, Assam
• Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuli, Dept. of English, M.S.S Vishwavidyalaya

• Editorial
• Remapping Trauma in Mythic Narratives: A Study of Surpanakha’s Story, Shruti Chakraborti, M.G. Prasuna
• Representation And Narration of Trauma in Don Delillo's The Body Artist, Abhijit Sarmah
• Voices Doomed in the Abyss of Trauma: Discussing Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, Dr. Joseph Varghese, Ms. Vani Maria, Jose
• The White Standard of Beauty and its Traumatic Impact: A Study of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Chitra Pegu
• Reading Home as a Space of Trauma in Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place, Bonjyotshna Saikia
• Trauma of the Displaced in Herta Muller’s The Passport and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone, Dr. Chitra.V. S
• Hamnet and Narrative Hygiene: Retelling a Life, Anindita Kar
• Medical Humanities and Contemporary Literary Practices, Dr. Prasenjit Das
• Trauma narrative as Spaces for Individual Empathy and Community Resistance :Thematic and Narrative Concerns in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Sapna Kumari
• "Now We Breathe A Different Air": Reading Post 9/11 Imaginary as a Site of Trauma in Ian Mcewan's Saturday, Smitasri Joy Sarma
• Tracing the Dystopian Trail of Collective Trauma in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Ghashiram Kotwal, Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika
• The Insane Women- A “trauma” Reading of Felanee, Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuly
• Exploring Trauma through Survivor’s Testimony in Cat’s Eye, Sanjib Das
• Aesthetizing Trauma:The Politics of Narration in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Surfacing’, Barnashree Khasnobis
• Negotiating the Construction of Alienated and Distorted Subjectivities through Traumatic Experiences in the memoirs of Salman Rushdie and Dom Moraes, Suroshikha Debnath
• The Dislocated Self: Trauma in Wendy Pearlman’s We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled, Dr Shruti Das, Mirza Ibrahim Beg
• Locating Homophobic Violence and Trauma in the Short Film Touch, Silba R. Marak, Dr. Dwijen Sharma
• Introspecting Trauma, Sexual Violence against Women and Alienation of ‘Self’ as Portrayed in Partition Literature with Special Reference to Pinjar, Akhil Chandra Borah
• Trauma and Survival in Jangamby Debendranath Acharya, Prateeti Barman
• Violence and the Floating Self: A Critical Study of A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition, Sukriti Deswal
• Political Trauma among Common People Reflected in Selected Stories of Temsula Ao, Dr. Champak Kumar Bharali
• Void, Alienation and Bereavement: Traces of Traumatic Experiences in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Dr. Sunita Rani, Vandana Sharma
• Namita Gokhale’s Selected Novels Studied in Light of Dr Brian Leslie Weiss’ Parapsychological Studies, Dr Rati Oberoi
• Recording the Refugee: Jatin Bala's Legacy of Persistent Subcontinental Marginality, Mandakini Bhattacherya
• Role of Logotherapy in Developing Resilience: A Study of Gabrielle Zevin’s novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Suvitha Subramaniam, Dr. Dhanalakshmi.A
• A Literary Study of Third World Feminism, Sexual Victimization and Social Injustice towards Bangladeshi Women in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim, Himani Sharma, Dr Bhavya
• A Passage to Redemption in Anita Nair’s The Better Man, Dr. Nisha Nambiar
• Projecting ASD : A Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time, Gaurab Sengupta
• Death as a Passage to Permanence: A Study of Porphyria’s Lover and A Musical Instrument, Tapti Roy
• Transnationality and Intergenerational Transformation of Indian Middle-Class Family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland, Dr. Maitrayee Misra
• Capitalist Patriarchy and Position of Women: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara, Dr. Saugata Kumar Nath
• Indigenising the Detective Genre in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’ series: A Study, Dr. Chandreie Mukherjee
• Homes across the Water: Dislocation and Transcultural Kinship in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace, Dr. Asis De, Anupam Roy
• Decoding Lucifer: Challenging the Retro- Fittings in the History of Satan, Anupa Rose Babu
• Masculinity and Performativity in Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala, Manohar M
• Engaging the Body: A Study of Desire and Identity in Babyji by Abha Dawesar, Sriya Das
• Indigeneity in a Nationalist Context: Exploring Alternative Modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s Popular Science Writings, Sutista Ghosh
• Quo Vadis: A Study of K.V. Raghupathi’s The Images of a Growing Dying City, Dr. P.V. Laxmiprasad
• Women and the Domestic Space in Rashid Jahan’s Parde ke Peechey, Kanika Lakra
• The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi, Dr. Arun Singh
• Serenity in Insanity: Exploring Love in Sajid Ali’s Laila Majnu, Dr Shruti Rawal
• A Critical Discourse on Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Dalit Literature, Limbad Girishkumar Nagjibhai, Dr. Prakash M. Joshi
• Theatrical Space and Visibility of Children’s Concerns in Ramu Ramanathan’s Play The Boy Who Stopped Smiling, Nehal Hardik Thakkar
• Revisiting Masterpieces of Literature Through Indian Aesthetics: A Myth Of Devotion, a river sutra & NAVEEN PATNAIK , Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak
• “Can a Pulaya Speak of His Life?”: Autobiography as Ethnography in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalk kadukalk kidayile Ente Jeevitham, Liju Jacob Kuriakose, Smrutisikta Mishra
• Re-contextualization and Representation of Folk Art in Advertising, Dr. Manash Pratim Goswami, Dr. Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi
• Art Forms as Narrative of Resistance: A Glance at the Art Forms of Mavilan Tribe, Dr. Lillykutty Abraham
• Literary Texts towards negotiating the Practical Problems of Life : A Model, Dr Ravindra Pratap Singh
• Nation and Nationalism: Feminization of the Nation and its Evolutionary Transcendence in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, Arijit Goswami
• The Use of Food Imagery and Representation of Culture in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Part and A Man of the People, Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung
• From Marginality to Congruity: Revisiting Marginality through a Canonicity of Jain and Sikh Literature, Dr. Varun Gulati
• Love, Compassion and Relationship: Balancing the Act in Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo, Dr. Alka Singh
• Partition Trauma, Nostalgia and Rootlessness: A Reading of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters, Dr. Dipak Kumar Doley
• Dr. Bashabi Fraser’s The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play, Debapriti Sengupta