Volume XI, Issue II, November 2022 - April 2023

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 XI, Issue II

• Dr. Gayatree Bhattacharyya, Former Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati
• Dr. Dayananda Pathak, Former Principal, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati
• 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)
• Dr. Anway Mukhopadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Kharagpur

Members of the Editorial Body

Volume XI, 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. Jayanta Madhab Tamuli, Dept. of English, M.S.S Vishwavidyalaya
• Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung, Dept. of English, Dibrugarh University
• Dr. Premila Swamy D, Dept. of English, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Karnataka

• Editorial
• “A Place to live”: The Silence of [Non]Home in the Jesus Trilogy of J.M. Coetze, Debasish Mishra, Dr. Amarjeet Nayak
• Apocrypha as Silenced Texts: A Study of Marginalisation in Biblical Canon Formation, Dr Sony Augustine
• Silence and Song in the Myth of Philomela and The Little Mermaid, Sanjna Plawat, Dr. Bindu Karnwal
• Blues and Silence: An examination of Silence in B.B King’s African American Legacy, Prachi Behrani, Dr. Shubhanku Kochar
• The Resonating Silence of Women’s Suicide in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Neelakanthi Braja and The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker, Tejoswita Saikia
• Exploring Intra Gender Subalternity and Women’s Silence in Before we Visit the Goddess and A Disobedient Girl, Himani Sharma, Dr Bhavya
• Exploring Tribal Women’s Silence through Literature: A Reading of the Plights of Tribal Women from the Selected Writings of North East India, Ms. Laltlanzuol Khawbung
• From Silence to Subjectivity: A Reading of Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Bhaswati Goswami
• Hushed Emotions: The Language of Silence in Select Graphic Novels, Donna John, Dr. Saumi Mary M
• Indomitable Ministry of Silence: Revealing the Reticence in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Dr. Sabitha S Babu
• Minor Detail: An Echo of the Trajectory of Silence, Dr. Anju E.A.
• Poetics of Silence: Reflections on the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra, Dr. Amlanjyoti Sengupta
• Unfurling the Diverse Intricacies of Silence: A Study of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Tanmoya Barman
• Ritualised Silence: A Foucauldian Reading of Vishnumurthi Theyyam, Anurag N T, Dr. Saumi Mary M
• Saunters Across the Silent Summits: A Psychogeographic Probe into Mamang Dai’s Novel - The Black Hill, Sudakshina Bhattacharya, Dr. Sandhya V
• Screams and Silences in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out, Dr. Anchal Dahiya
• Silence and the Resurrection of the Dead: A Metahistorical Reading of Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq, Dr. Partha Sarathi Guha, Dr. Ikbal Ansary
• Silence and Satire in Graphic Form: A Critique of Appupen’s Wordless Novels, Joydev Maity
• Silence and Subject in The Hour before Dawn, Dr Priyanka Kakoti
• Silence and Subversion: Reading the Politics of Governance in Milan Kundera’s The Joke, Gautami Bharali
• Silence as an Embodiment of Resistance to Gender Subalternity in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Dhritimoni Mahanta
• Silence as ‘Discourse’: A Foucauldian Reading of Preeti Shenoy’s The Secret Wish List, S. Magishavarthini, Dr. S. Ramya Niranjani
• Silence of the Romantics: A Study in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ritu Ranjan Gogoi
• Silenced Narratives of Nigerian Civil War: A Study of Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Shivani Duggal
• Suffering in Silence: Marital Discord and Women’s Silence in Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us, Dr. Indu Swami
• A World without Words: The Discourse on Sound and Silence in Ambai’s “A Red-necked Green Bird”, Dr Sanju Thomas
• The Rhetoric of Silence in Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls : A Study, Rajashree Boruah, Rimjim Boruah
• The Spiral of Silence in Megha Majumdar’s A Burning, Dr. Preeti Choudhary
• The Dual Purpose of Silence: A Study Through Two Novels, Manmita Sarmah
• Tragedy of Silence; A Postcolonial Reading of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, Dr. Surabhi Muthe. S
• Transgender Rhetoric in A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: Reading into the Narrative of Defiance, Nasrin Shahnaz, Dr. Merry Baruah Bora
• Understanding the Connotations of Silence in the Novels of Virginia Woolf: A Study with Reference to Mrs. Dalloway, Dr. Ratul Deka
• Shattering Silence through Performance: A Reading of Jane Harrison’s Stolen, Dr. Imsuchila Kichu
• The Ineffable Silence: Demystifying Borges’s “The Writing of the God”, Dhanya Joy
• Dumbness, Drumming, and Silencing in Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Dr. Pranjal Sharma Bashishtha
• 4’33”, Silence and The Silence: Reading Three Texts on Quietude, Dr Tom Thomas, Vismaya P , Tina Aji George
• Silence as Narrative and the Silent Narrative: Introspecting the Impairing Imperialism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Abhilash Kaushik, Dr. Merry Baruah Bora
• “Surveilled but silenced?”:A Fresh Look at Offred’s Silence in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Dr Bibek Adhikary
• Trauma, Silence and Colonialism: Reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Its Adaptations, Dr Thongam Dhanajit Singh, Malsawma