Volume X, Issue II, November 2021 - April 2022

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

Members of the Editorial Body

Volume X, 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. Rabi Narayan Samantaray, Dept. of English, Aeronautics College, Berhampur University
• Dr. Pranjal Sharma Bashistha, Dept. of Assamese, University of Gauhati
• Dr. Jayanta Madhab Tamuli, Dept. of English, M.S.S Vishwavidyalaya

• Editorial
• Gender, Desire, and Identity: A Feminist Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis of Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours, Jenniffer. L
• Gender, Sexual dissidence and the “Queer” in Aruni Kashyap’s His Father’s Disease, Dr. Premila Swamy D, Dr. Sanjay N. Shende
• Problematizing Gender: Strategies of domination in Sharmila Seyyid’s Ummath, Rincy Saji
• The Patriarchal Trap in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife, Rohit Jahari
• Reconceptualising the Sexuality of Disabled, Queer Women: A Critical Analysis of Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a Straw, Miby Miriam Jacob
• Screening the Third Gender: The Politics of Representation in the Film Moothon, Dr. Anju E. A.
• On the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Reading of Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, Kasturi Saikia
• Negotiating Domestic Space and Agency through Mise-en-scéne in The Great Indian Kitchen (2021), Dr. Sajna Sanal
• Women, Wimmin and Womxn: Challenging Gender Identities in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, Sonali Singha
• Women in Oil Narratives: An Ecofeminist Critique of Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil, S Jeyasiba Ponmani, Dr. Narasingaram Jayashree
• Women and Gender Representation in Select Fictions of Amish Tripathi, Ms. V. S. Nandhini Devi, Dr. A. Selvalakshmi
• Wavering Between Two Worlds: Exploring Liminality in Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Poonam Sareen, Dr. Muzafar Ahmad Bhat
• Tracing Parallels between Inverts and Two-spirits: Discussing Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, Abhijit Sarmah
• Beyond Gendered Binary: Queer Performativity and the Liminal Space in Rituparno Ghosh’s Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish, Dr. Nizara Hazarika
• Deconstructing Biblical Myths: Women in Michele Roberts’ The Wild Girl, Dr. Dipak Kumar Doley
• Female ‘Alterity’ and the Non-Human: The Transformative Significance of ‘Laughter’ and ‘Leisure’ in Nitoo Das’s “Jokhini”, Dr. Namrata Pathak
• Gender In “Invented Space”: History-Fantasy Interface In Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing The Cherry, Chayanika Roy
• Gender Interpellating Narratives: Necklace as a Cultural Code in Literature and Advertisement, Anjuli Thawait
• Of Brotherhood And Violence: Reading Masculine Homosocial Bonds in Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth, Devastuti Sharma
• The Dynamics of Power and Sexuality: A Reading of Antony and Cleopatra, Dr. Meena Sharma
• Representing Gendered Experience of Partition in Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar, Dr. Indu Swami
• ‘Not so Feminine’: Gender Construction of Divakaruni’s Sita, Dr. Saumya Sharma
• Almost White But Not Really: The Tragic Mulatta in William Wells Brown’s Clotel, Nirupama Dey, Dr. Shreayashi Mukherjee
• In the End, Not Alone?: Considering Queer Ageing in Arun Mirchandani’s You Are Not Alone, Anil Pradhan
• Mapping a Marginal Voice: Understanding the Revisionist Portrayal of Dhanyamalini in Anandani’s Debut Novel Mandodari, Anindita De
• Incongruous Humour: A Study of Sexist Covid-19 Memes in Assamese, Kabita Chiring
• Patriarchal Politics in Bhisham Sahni’s Madhavi: A Study of the Retelling of a Myth, Akanksha Vashisht, Dr Kanu Priya
• The Absence Presence Of Asexual Aesthetics In Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman, Shobitha M.N.
• Women, Patriarchy and Islam: A Critique of Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Dr. Rafraf Shakil
• The Invisible Women: The Abject Ageing Female in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour, Dr Smitha M.
• The Memsahib’s Anxiety: Colonialism as a ‘Mansion of Despair’ in Rumer Godden’s Kingfishers Catch Fire (1953), Kakalee Das, Dr. Rounak Mahtab
• A Space Gendered Feminine: Gender Dimensions of Historiography and Qurratulain Hyder’s Historical Novel River of Fire, Sabreen Ahmed
• Reading Female Desire and Shame in Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts (1985), Dr. Partha Sarathi Guha
• Menstrual Blood and The ‘Monstrous Feminine’ in Stephen King’s Carrie, Syeda Umme Tasnim, Dr. Farddina Hussain
• Indian Chick Lit: A Study of the Dilemma of Modern Women, Dr. Amrita Banerjee
• The ‘Night Girl’: Evaluating Barbara Neely’s Domestic Sleuth in Blanche on the Lam, Prerana Chakravarty
• Galo Myths: An Enquiry into Role of Female Deities, Eli Doye
• Position and Role of Women in the folk life and folksongs of the Pati Rabhas of Assam, Lakhyadhar Sarma
• Confluence of Gender, Nation and Identity: Insinuations of ‘Disguise Techniques’ in Kirsty Murray’s Chil- dren of the Wind Series, Shyama Sasidharan
• Brewing Popular Culture: A Reading of Select Tea Advertisements, Dr. Lakshmi Sukumar
• Ethnobiology in Narayan’s Novel Kocharethi: The Araya Woman, Monica Deidra Mendez
• John Ashbery’s Poetics of Indeterminacy: Reading Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and As We Know, Nayana George
• Mapping Trauma of Afghanistan through the Fictional Bodies in Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes: A Novel, Mehraj Ud Din Zargar, Dr. Huma Yaqub
• Rethinking Kinship and Responsibility: An Interface between the Human and the Non-Human in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace, Anupam Roy
• Postmemory in Salman Rashid’s A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition, Deepanjali Baruah
• Redefining the Self: A Reading of Maya Angelou and Lori Tharps’ Travel Texts, Porosha Sonowal