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REFELCTIONS OF PARANOID ANXIETES IN KEN KESSEY'S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
(HERMES:A Bi-Annual Literary Research Journal VOL III No 2, St.Joseph’s College, Trichy, 2011-03) Lavanya S
Against the backdrop of the counter cultural ambience of the 1960’s the novel can be critiqued as a post modern myth of liberation from confinement, individualism from group mentality, independence from acquiescence and liberal sexual freedom from sexual repression. The protagonists in this novel are misfits in society. In the post modern era the individual lacks historical consciousness and thus fails to comprehend the socio cultural totality. The alienated, rootless individual withdraws from real human existence and finds solace in hallucinations and ends up as a schizophrenic. The schizophrenic individual has a tendency to withdraw from real existence and they live in a reverie. Most of us are trapped by the social conventions set up by the society which we term as reality. Ken Kessey is of the opinion that one has to rely on his own individual sanity to find meaning and value of his life as well as others. The protagonists of the postmodern fiction are the marginalized people segregated from the main stream society. McMurphy and Chief Bromden are psychopaths. Randle McMurphy is transferred from the prison work farm to the hospital declared as a psychopath. McMurphy exhibits extraordinary courage to liberate the inmates from the asylum. The story is narrated by Big Chief Bromden, an imbecile inmate in a mental asylum. He is born to a Red Indian father and white mother. Big Chief’s narrative is disruptive by his reminiscences about his past life in the tribal hamlet. Postmodern fiction brings to the fore front the psychological ramifications of the characters for they undergo emotional turmoil as they are unable to acclimatize to the contemporary reality and try to retain their sanity by reminiscing their past. This novel reveals that modern reality is determined by technological and organizational phenomena. The novel captures the absurdity of human situation, quest for reality in a meaningless universe and the incessant human struggle against obstacles in spite of the insignificance of individual human endeavour.
THE PRIVATE FANTASIES OF ALIENATED-MARRIED WOMEN IN ANITA DESAI’S WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER AND JOURNEY TO ITHACA
(Indian Streams Research Journal, 2011-05) Santhosh Priyaa, J
The deep-rooted agonised psyche of womanhood was brought to the lime–light by Anita Desai, in her literary blooms. Especially in married women, the transplantation takes place on three levels viz: physical, mental and spiritual. They are torn between the memories of the past and the realities of the present. With the boom of an unpleasant and an unacceptable situation, nostalgic feelings get stirred up. There is a pattern, which frames her novel with the conflict between manwoman relationships that inevitably leads to alienation.
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.
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.
INTERLOCKED IDENTITIES: PERSONAL AND NATIONAL IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
(IJSR, 2013-01) Vijayalakshmi T
Postmodernism marked a growth of new literatures which had in common the shared experience of colonialism. In reaction to the rejection of anything “too local in interest” by the great tradition of established western canon, postcolonial literature chose to “answer back”. Re-examining the earlier literary tradition and reconstructing new mythologies, postcolonial literature has indeed afforded an enabling experience and generated an enormous corpus of specialized academic writing in the field of postcolonial studies.
ECOTOPIA: AN ECOLOGICAL UTOPIA IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S THE ENGLISH PATIENT
(Vijay Nicole Imprints Private Limited, 2013-02) Vijayalakshmi T
Environment plays a major role in the critical stages of the life cycle of the species. The species react to the environment changes and adjust structurally and psychologically. The environment also changes according to certain species-specific activities like growth, dispersal, reproduction, death and decay. All living organisms and the environment are mutually reactive, affecting each other in various ways.
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.
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.
SUBALTERN NARRATIVE OF BHIMA LONE WARRIOR BY M.T VASUDEVAN NAIR – A MYTHOPOEIC STUDY
(South Indian folklorist : journal of Folklore Resources and Research Centre. St. Xavier's College (Tirunelveli, India). Folklore Resources and Research Centre., 2015-02) Lavanya S
M.T.Vasudevan Nair has reconstructed the epic Mahabharata from Bhima's point of view to bring the Marxist concerns such as class conflict, oppression of the marginalised to the forefront. In this novel MT has presented Bhima as an ordinary man with all human weakness. MT through this novel projected the emotional trauma of a second born child Bhima. This novel is a mythopoeic study of the Mahabharata. MT proves that Bhima is worthy enough to be the hero of Mahabharata than anybody else. In this novel Bhima is presented as a subaltern, because he was marginalised and treated as the 'other' in his family. The author has attempted to bring out the hidden tensions between the Aryan and non-Aryan races. He has portrayed cultural and political discrimination against the low-born warriors like Karna, Ekalavya and Ghatotkacha and women in general.
ETHNICISM IN LANGSTON HUGHES’S SELECT POEMS
(Pursuits, 2015-08) Thangamani C S; Narasingaram, Jayashree
Ethnicism is a form of nationalism wherein the nation is defined in search of ethnicity. It is based on the members of the nation who descend from that particular ethnic group. In such nations, ethnic minorities struggle to get their identity. Langston Hughes is an African American poet, essayist, columnist, lyricist and novelist. He wrote many poems and among those, “As I Grew Older” and “Let America Be America Again” deal about Hughes’ dreams about America. These poems speak about the ethnicism for the minorities of America.
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.
GENDER,NATION AND IDENTITY IN AHDAFSOUEIF’SSANDPIPER
(Paripex- Indian Journal of Research, 2016-03) RajiNarasimhan; Sushil Mary Mathews
AhdafSoueif is a diasporic writer whose work is laced with feministic under tones, portraying the struggle between the identities of lover, mother and individual in each woman. In her short story ‘Sandpiper’ the struggle between her different identities along with her choice of nationality is portrayed. Soueif was born in Egypt and later moved to England. Her work is a mirror of the immigrant’s woes of the land that she adopted and the land that she abandoned. The layers of conflict include the identity of nationality, gender roles, and the struggle for choices. The loss of the self with the birth of a mother is brought out with craft and finesse. The research paper proposes to identify the feministic ideas in the story along with the theme of identity crises that accompanies diasporic writing. The paper attempts to highlight the contrast as seen through the eyes of the protagonist.
REPRESENTATION OF FANTASY IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE
(Journal of Research & Development, 2022-07) Ponnulexmi, V; Ambika, S
Rushdie employs many rare and innovative techniques like fantasy, magical realism, time and space in terms of narrative and language. In general, it is observed that a novelist uses alternative characters to speak or act for themselves and by intrusively telling how they do these things. The novelist believes that the art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself. In Luka and the Fire of Life Rushdie adopts a number of supernatural elements. Magic is no longer quixotic madness. Realism functions as an objective, universal representation of natural and social realities. It functions ideologically, but less hegemonic ally of its program and is not centralizing but eccentric. It creates space for interaction of diversity. Magical realism could be seen as a significant international, contemporary literary mode. It is an important presence in the contemporary literary mode. Unlike mythical realism favoured by the west, it draws upon cultural modes and non-literary forms in their western novel form
A STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF ILLUSTRATED TALES IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE TO CHILDREN
(ProQuest, 2023) Kaviya, Kathiresan; Narasingaram, Jayashree
Children of today are scarcely aware of climate change, while already growing up facing the effects of it. As citizens and future policy makers, it becomes essential for children to be informed of the threat and procedures to mitigate it. However, studies show that most children are not introduced to climate change in their primary years, be it at home or school. One of the many modes available to effectively and non-violently teach climate change is through illustrated tales, which has an ideal blend of illustrations and text. This study explores the potency of these tales through a case study done among twenty children aged between three and fourteen.