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AMITAV GHOSH’S SELECT FACTUAL-FICTION: AN AMALGAMATION OF LITERATURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
(2019) Vathanam T S; Lavanya S
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CHANGING PHASES OF WOMEN IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD
(Eclectic Representations, a peer-reviewed biannual journal. Vol :3 Issue 2 PG & Research Department of English, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram, Chennai - 600 059. India, 2013-07) Lavanya S
The paper proposes to analyse the metamorphoses of the Nigerian society with special focus on the change of woman’s identity as the cultural locus shifts, regarding women’s space and place as the society evolves from traditional to colonial and post-colonial status. The life of three generations of women is discussed. The change in the cultural and societal norms and its impact on the life of women is exemplified. One of Emecheta’s finest novel The Joys of Motherhood, is set in a time of great political and economic change in Nigeria. The characters in this novel define validity of their womanhood solely by the success of their children. The Joys of Motherhood is the story of a Young Ibo woman who dreams of living a traditional life as a mother of many children. She spends her life in Lagos, Nigeria watching traditional values erode and being destroyed by Western influence. The hope she puts in having many children turns out to be misplaced and her entire life is simply a struggle for survival, with no reward in her old age.
CHILDREN OF IRON: RESISTANCE AGAINST APARTHEID IN JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE'S AGE OF IRON
(GJRA- Global Journal for Research Analysis, 2017-01) Madhumitha J; Lavanya S
South African countries were dominated by the European powers under the system of Colonialism and Apartheid. They separated the native people in terms of race under which their rights were severely limited. The white people created an identity that they belong to the superior race and the native people belong to the lower strata of the society. They were segregated in terms of their skin colour. They also created an opinion that the native people are savages and a white man's duty is to correct them, so they imposed violence and inhumane practices to subdue them. The colonisers exploited them and forced the native people to attend separate schools and hospitals. In their homeland these native people were treated like slaves. The brutality of apartheid was very severe so that people fought with strong determination to obtain independence. Even small children involved themselves in the independence struggle. Due to the efforts taken by the leaders South Africa regained its freedom.
CONFINEMENT AND STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION IN JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE'S LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K
(Paripex - Indian Journal of Research, 2017-02) Madhumitha J; Lavanya S
The African countries were colonised by the European countries and they segregated the native people under apartheid system. The colonial rule suppressed the native people so they fought vigorously to obtain independence. Human rights were violated by the colonisers and they ill treated the colonised people. During Apartheid era the native people were forced to abandon their homes and made to stay in the camps where they were confined like prisoners. People were forced to work in the factories, estates, farms owned by the colonisers. The camps which they were made to stay were controlled by the colonisers.
CONGLOMERATION OF THE MYSTICAL MINDS OF THE EAST AND THE WEST COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S THE TYGER AND THE LAMBWITH SRI AUROBINO’S THE TIGER AND THE DEER
(POETCRIT (An International Refereeed Bi-annual journal of Literary Criticism & Contemporary Poetry) Vol XXVI No 2, 2013-07) Lavanya S
The paper attempts a comparative study of the poems of Blake and Sri Aurobindo, the representatives of Western and Eastern mysticism respectively. The astonishing fact is that one can locate the answer for the queries raised by Blake in Sri Aurobindo’s poems. Their poems act as beacons to the souls longing for spiritual realization. Life is a journey towards eternity; their poems provide us firm anchors of spirituality to cross the abysmal recurrence of birth and death. No doubt they are like the three Magis guided through the light of the stars to the abode of the heavenly babe. Thus these two great visionary stars in the galaxy of literature showed ways and means to get into the purpose of living.
A CRITIQUE OF THE HOLY WATER – A CULTURAL TRANSLATION OF THE WELL OF THE SAINTS TRANSLATED BY BASAVARAJ NAIKAR
(International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) Vol. 2 Issue 3 TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.,, 2012-09) Lavanya S
Dr. Basavaraj Naikar has made a unique attempt in retranslating his Kannada translation of J.M Synge’s The Well of the Saints into English. This retendering of this play again into English has enabled the Indian audience to value and relish the Irish play. The aesthetics and the rigidity of the theme are maintained with precision in the translated version. The retranslation has enabled to bridge the cultural in equivalence between the source text and the target text. The Indian audiences have gained the golden opportunity to enjoy the grandeur of the classics within the percepts of their native cultural context due to the yeomen services rendered by Dr. Basavaraj Naikar who has taken great pain to render the classics in simple language so that it would benefit multitudes of people with literary fervor. This paper attempts to analyze the play The Holy Water,as a unique example of retranslation and also as a case study of a cultural translation.
DIASPORIC DIVULGENCE IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE
(2013) Geetha S; Lavanya S
DILEMMA OF THE DISPLACED: BHARATHI MUKHERJEE’S DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS
(Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore, 2012-03) Lavanya S
Bharati Mukherjee, a critically acclaimed author who has established herself as a renowned writer and has projected the cultural confusion and confrontation of a multi-racial society with precision. The expatriate writers portray a multi-cultural situation which is combined with existential anguish due to identity crisis. The protagonist, who suffers a sense of loss in the hostile social environment, ceaselessly struggles and then at last anticipating change starts the process of reaffirming her native identity. The diasporic situation has created rich possibilities for the understanding of various histories. Their cultural imperatives, interacting with the unknown forces of the new world, create a drama of collaborations of various cultures which the story teller has recorded in the novel.
ECO-CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BOOK OF THE HUNTER BY MAHASWETA DEVI
(International Journal of English and Literature (IJELSpecial issue TJPRC Pvt. Ltd, 2016-06) Lavanya S
Mahasweta Devi is one of the renowned Indian literary personalities, social activist and best-selling author in Bengali fiction. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1926. Most of her works are translated into different languages like English, Gujarati and Kannada. She had won many prestigious awards such as Sahitya academy award(1979), Padma Shri(1986), Jnanpith award(1996), Padma Vibhusan(2006) etc.
ECO-MARXISM IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE GLASS PALACE
(International journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR) 2Volume : 6, K Y Publishers, 2018-01) Lavanya S; Nithya K
The paper aims at applying Eco-Marxism ideology to The Glass Palace to study the extent of environmental damage and plundering of human resources during the Imperialistic regime of the British in Burma. The novel discusses the large scale lumbering of forests the highly prized timber Burma teak. The novel also highlights the plight of the indentured labourers brought from South India by labour contractors to be employed in petroleum wells and in rubber plantations. The Imperialist created capitalist system to empower their economic status which resulted in social exclusion, poverty, war and environmental degradation
ECOCRITICAL READING OF THOMAS KINGS SELECT NOVELS
(2019) Nithya K; Lavanya S
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ECOMARXISM IN AMITAV GHOSH’S IBIS TRILOGY
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CREATIVE RESEARCH THOUGHTS - IJCRT (IJCRT.ORG) K Y PUBLISHER, 2018-02) Lavanya S; Vathanam T S
The paper aims at analyzing the novels of Ibis trilogy The Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and The Flood of Fire from the point of view of Ecomarxist ideology. Ecomarxism deals with the tendency of the capitalist to destroy nature and exploit the marginalized section of society in the process of increasing their profit. The Sea of Poppies explicates the British government forcing the farmers throughout north India to cultivate poppy which makes the staple food costly and results in turning the farmers into indentured labourers. River of Smoke highlights the commercial exploration of acquiring Chinese plants for European trade through the character of Fitcher Penrose. The Flood of Fire deals with the plight of poor Indian soldiers who are recruited to fight for the British in China. These poor soldiers had to pledge their life so that the British could yield more profit by indulging in opium trade. Chinese economy was destroyed by the British government through the opium trade. The import of tea from China was stopped by establishing tea plantations in India. Colonial rulers in their need to expand their trade economy had exploited human rights and denied relationship between people and their land
EXPOSITIONS OF EXPATRIATE ENCUMBRANCE IN UMA PARAMESHWARAN'S ROOTLESS BUT GREEN ARE THE BOULEVARD TREES
(PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, 2011-04) Lavanya S
Uma Parameswaran was born and brought up in India and currently lives in Winnipeg. She received her Master of Arts Degree and Diploma in Journalism from Nagpur University, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Indiana University and a Ph.D from Michigan State University. She has been working as a faculty for three decades at the University of Winnipeg. She has written several plays, poems and several scholarly books on post colonial literature. Uma Parameswaran, a multifaceted personality has won several awards and acclaims for her literary and scholarly pursuits. This paper focuses on elucidating the dilemma of dislocations, an awareness of being an alien in a particular society with the lived experience of immigrants. Uma Parameswaran’s work tries to give a positive orientation in ascertaining the identity of the dislocated rather hyphenated individual, to use her own words it is seeing a half-filled glass of water as, “half full or half empty.” In the process of psychological adaptation the immigrant finds himself in a paradoxical situation of convergence and divergence between two cultures. Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees was published in 1987 but the play is set in 1979. This poignant play dramatizes the life of an Indian immigrant family in Winnipeg struggling to balance between their tradition, culture, nostalgia and assimilative tendency. Sharad and Savitri are nostalgic for their past and often wonder whether they would feel at home in their adopted country. Daughter Jyoti has a white boy friend Andre and their son Jayant is planning for a trip to Montreal with his friends. Sharad’s sister Veejala resigns her job as the Professor at the University and announces that she is going back to India leaving her family at Winnipeg. Vithal her son feels alienated and is a member of extremist Indian politics. Jayant answers the existential anguish of all the characters in the play; the plight of being rootless in an alien soil is answered through his philosophy. He says: Yeah, rootless. Let’s face it, Jesus, no one, but no one has roots anywhere because that’s the way things are in 1979b A.D. But we can stand tall, man, and live each day for all its goddamned worth and ours. (54-55)
MAZISI KUNENE’S RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY: A STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN PREDICAMENT
(College Sadhana- Journal for Bloomers of Research. A Bi-Annual Multidisciplinary Publication Vol 4 No 2, VHSN College, Viruthunagar., 2012-02) Lavanya S
Mazisi Kunene is the icon of South African Poetry whose Poetic Sensibility took him to the zenith of his poetic career when UNESCO honoured him as Africa’s Poet Laureate in 1993. In 2005 he was named South African Poet Laureate. He was an Anti- apartheid activist who strived to bring equality to the oppressed majority. His poems reverberate with a deep yearning to cling on to his native roots; his culture, music, songs and those that encompass the native identity. He expresses his sorrow for becoming a hypocrite who has to hide his natural self and is compelled to ape the Western culture. Before colonization eons ago the African nation had its own indigenous culture and rich heritage but the colonizers, the egoistic imperialists failed to understand the richness of African culture, they mercilessly cut off the natives from their cultural roots. The colonizers thrusted upon the natives a new code of conduct, new mannerism, new religion and new language which resulted in alienated individuals with a divided consciousness. But irony is that though Mazisi Kunene wrote in Zulu, his native language but the coloniser’s language has become an effective and poignant weapon to express the greatness of the native culture and his translated version of his poems are a testimony to it.
NEGOTIATING CULTURAL CHANGE: GITHA HARIHARAN’S THE THOUSAND FACES OF NIGHT
(The IUP Journal of English Studies. Vol VI No .3, 2011-09) Lavanya S
Literature has always been a means of reinforcing cultural and social values. Juxtaposing the multifaceted Indian women and their lives of three generations, Githa Hariharan has portrayed the changing scenario in the Indian society. Her concern is to bring out the irrationalities and injustices of domestic and social life. Women were ready to accept their archetypal female role in the past. Modern women have started to rebel against the age-old social conventions. The Thousand Faces of Night deals with the sanction of space for woman in the Indian society and her struggle to emerge as an individual expressing her existential anguish. The novel presents the effects of patriarchy on women of different social classes and ages and particularly the varied responses to the restrictive institution of marriage. Women were confined to their homes, they were oppressed and opportunities for self-fulfillment were bleak. Even in the modern changed ambience their position is still debatable as they stand on the threshold of social change.
NOSTALGIC REMINISCENCES IN ALICE WALKER’S POEM AT THIRTY NINE
(Pursuits- Mercy College , Palakkad, 2015-08) Lavanya S
Confessional poetry or 'Confessionalism' is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s. It has been described as poetry "of the personal," focusing on extreme moments of individual experience, the psyche, and personal trauma such as mental illness and suicide, often set in relation to broader social themes. Alice Walker’s Poem at Thirty Nine is a confession poem. The frequent use of ‘I’ makes this very personal and the nostalgic experience makes it clear that she is recalling her past spent with her father. Psychological trauma which the author had undergone has been depicted in this poem.
POSTFEMINISTIC READING OF SHOBHA DE_S SELECT NOVELS
(2017) Aishwarya M; Lavanya S
POSTMODERN IDEOLOGIES IN SELECT NOVELS OF MICHAEL ONDAATJE
(2014) Angeline M; Lavanya S
POSTMODERN PERCEPTION IN GITHA HARIHARAN S SELECT NOVELS
(2021) Harini S; Lavanya S
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PROTOTYPE OF SUBALTERN PARADIGM- ARAVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER
(Indian Journal of Scientific Research, 2013-01) Lavanya S
Arvind Adiga received universal acclamation by winning the prestigious Man Booker prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger. The novel is a stark portrayal of the brutal social reality .Societal balance oscillates between various inequalities pertain to economy, religion, caste and culture is authentically portrayed in the novel. The inhuman, gruesome, evil and corrupt means adopted by selfish men in the race for materialistic pursuits is the theme of the novel. The growing economic disproportion between the bourgeois and the proletariat is a grave matter of concern at this particular juncture while India is striving to achieve the status of a developed nation and to project itself as a super power which could be on par with China or any other country. Adiga identifies social evils such as caste system which has instilled servile mentality and victim syndrome in the subaltern community and rampant corruption present even at the grass root level in any government organization to be the cankers destroying the development of Indian society. As a socially responsible writer Adiga has awakened our conscious by highlighting the social evils that hamper a healthy society and has reminded us of our responsibility to vanquish such evils.