Volume X, Issue I, May 2021 - October 2021

ISSN 2319-8281

Approved by UGC and enlisted in the UGC-CARE List 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 X, Issue I

• 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
• Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak, Former Associate Professor in English, Khallikote University (Odisha)

Members of the Editorial Body

Volume X, Issue I

• 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. Rabi Narayan Samantaray, Dept. of English, Aeronautics College, Berhampur University
• Dr. Durga Prasad Dash, Dept. of English, Gunjam College Berhampur University, Odisha
• Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika, Dept. of English, D.C.B College, Assam
• Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuli, Dept. of English, M.S.S Vishwavidyalaya

• Editorial
• Reflection of Religious Beliefs in Kachari Origin Myths: An Ecocritical Study, Aftafizur Rahman, Dr. Pritam Priya Goswami
• Of Mothers and Stepmothers: A Contemporary Rendition of Burhi Aair Sadhu by Bhaskar Hazarika’s Kothanodi, Dr. Bhupen Chutia, Ms. Murchana Das
• At the Heart of Surpanakha: Re-visioning Female Identityin Lanka’s Princess, Dr. Anju E. A
• Why ‘Maleficent’ Matters: Acculturation and Re-tellings of Fairy Tales, Dr. Farddina Hussain
• Resisting Woman: Rewriting Mythology in Kavita Kane’s Menaka’s Choice, Dr. Parveen Kumari
• Exploring the Queer in The Mahabharata: A Study of Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Pregnant King, Kavya Rajeev
• In-between Myth and Reality, Tradition and Modernity: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam, Munmi Bora
• Deconstructing Mythology and Re-writing the Body: Reading Meena Kandasamy’s Ms Militancy, Dr. Gunja Patni, Dr. Rimika Singhvi
• Wilderness and Culture: An Ecocritical Approach to Select Mythical Works, Patrika Handique, Dr. Anurag Bhattacharrya
• Leaving a Stench: Modernity, Myths and the Female Agency in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, Raktima Bhuyan
• Revisiting the Gandhian Myth through the Device of Food: A Study of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, Rashmi Das
• Staging Gender: A Feminist Study Of Poile Sengupta’s Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni, Sanjib Kumar Kar
• A Voice from the Fire: Contemporaneity of Draupadi in Yajnaseni, Dr. Sumithra Devi S.
• Rewriting Yoruba Folklore: A Postcolonial Reading of Amos Tutuola’s The Palm Wine Drinkard, Prerana Chakravarty
• Rewriting Yoruba Folklore: A Postcolonial Reading of Amos Tutuola’s The Palm Wine Drinkard, Prerana Chakravarty
• The Use of Myth in Hema Sarasvatī’s Prahrāda Caritra, Pranjal Sharma Bashishtha
• Myth as Representation of the Past and the Present: A Study of Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain, Dr. Saugata Kumar Nath
• Studying the Female Body in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Posthumanist Approach, Asrin Khatun
• Taming her with a Tonsure: Reading the Symbolism of Hair in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), Damini Kashyap
• Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion: A Study of Power Politics in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and A Man of the People, Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung
• Negotiating Gender, Performativity and Heterosexual hegemony: A discursive study on Ambai’s select short fictions, Dr. Premila Swamy
• P(l)ained Hills: The Discourse of Frontier Binaries in Early Assamese Fiction with special reference to Miri- Jiyori, Rajarshi Kalita
• Reading Masculine Anxiety in Saul Bellow’s Dangling Man, Simran Tripathi, Dr. Sucharita Sharma
• Out of Lesbian Bond, Heterosexual Bound as A Metaphorical Suicide: A Lesbo-Anomic Reading of Shobhaa De’s Snapshots, Dipak Giri
• Demystifying Anthropocentrism: Othering and Identity in The Vigil by Sarah Joseph, Gayathri Varma U