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CHANDRA LEKHA IN HE WHO RIDES A TIGER BY BHABANI BHATTACHARYA
(Language in India, 2009-09-09) J, Madhumitha; Poornavalli Mathiaparanam
Bhabani Bhattacharya is successful in portraying woman characters. Bhattacharya presents the picture of Indian woman full of vitality, high ideals and a ray of hope for humankind. Usually his novels depict different types of alienated woman characters, who seem to be at war with both the Self and the Society. Likewise, in his novel He who Rides a Tiger, Bhattacharya portrays the woman character Chandra Lekha to reveal his affirmative vision of life.
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.
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.
SRI LANKAN CULTURAL POETICS: YASMIN GOONERATNE’S THE BIG MATCH
(International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) Vol 4 Issue 1 TJPRC Pvt. Ltd, 2014-02) S, Lavanya
In the literary arena Yasmin Gooneratne stands apart as a stalwart among the South Asian writers for she has brought to limelight the sensibility of Sri Lankan literatutre to the Western audience. Her poetry collections: Word Bird Motif and The Lizard’s Cry and Other Poem stand testimony to her poetic caliber. A critical awareness of Sri Lankan social reality has been recorded by Yasmin Gooneratne in her poems. She uses her poem as a political allegory to satirize the dimensions of the racial prejudice that decimate equality in the society. In the poem The Big Match, Yasmin Gooneratne has registered her sorrow over the violent communal clashes which completely disrupted the diligently built cultural poetics of the multiracial and multicultural country.
MYTH AS A TOOL FOR PROMULGATION IN THE POETRY OF W.B.YEATS
(South Indian Folklorist, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, 2015-02) T, Poornamathi Meenakshi
Myth is an ancient story which deals with supernatural powers. It can either be true or be false. This mystery of myth has inspired many writers all over the world including W.B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats born in Dublin was an Irish poet and one of the important figures of twentieth century literature. In his poems he fuses myth with his Christian beliefs and political ideologies. He was fascinated by Irish folklore and had written an introduction for and edited, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. Irish literary history and folklore were suppressed during the British rule in Ireland so he used myth as a tool to promulgate his own ideas and Irish mythology to the world. This paper explores the mythical aspects in the poetry of Yeats.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S WIFE
(International Journal of English And Literature (IJEL), 2015-08) Lavanya S
Mukherjee in the novel Wife deals with the neurotic phenomena in the protagonist Dimple. The fiction gives a profound psychological insight into Dimples inner world. She always prefers to live in a world of fantasy than face the realities of life. Whenever her expectations are thwarted she feels depressed. She thinks that by emigrating to America she can experience a rich and sophisticated live but she experiences humiliation, loneliness and marginalization as an immigrant which makes her behave abnormally. Unable to communicate her problems to her husband, she goes to the extent of murdering him. Whenever Dimple tried to convey her problems Amit exhibited a wall of indifference. The novel concludes with Dimple imagining Amit’s partially severed head on the dining table as she starts watching TV. The margin between rationality and irrationality gets diffused and results in a violent act of murder. Dimple loses her sanity because she was alienated and marginalized in her indigenous culture and faced the same predicament in the host culture.
A READING ON THE PORTRAYAL OF THE FEMALE TRAGIC FATE IN MANJU KAPUR’S SELECTED FICTION
(Language in India, 2015-12) Anusha Mathew; Narasingaram, Jayashree
Manju Kapur in her works, Difficult Daughters, Home, A Married Woman and Immigrant vividly portrays how gender operates within the framework of traditional family disturbing it to its roots. A detailed reading of Kapur’s novels make us aware that through the story of her female protagonists, she projects the view, when an Indian woman, in spite of her education, status and intelligence, tries to marry according to her own choice, is likely to spoil her prospects in both the worlds- the one that she revolts against and the other she embraces. The daring step is severely condemned and rejected. Such marriage is quite likely to prove disastrous dragging the couple to melancholy, depression and despair. The first novel Difficult Daughters, pictures the event during the turbulent years of Indian freedom movement and the partition of the country. It presents the life of Virmati through various ups and downs, with her dreams, desires, longings and aspirations but ultimately ending with a lot of compromises in her life. A Married Woman, traces the life of Astha from her childhood to her forties through various desires and despairs, complements and rejections, and recognitions and frustrations. Nisha in Home quite successfully represent the victimization of female in many joint families behind the veneer of relations. Immigrant focuses on Nina who struggles to break the shackles of the patriarchy and is in a search for the meaning of her life opposing the dogmas of cultural and social critical thinking.
FEMINIST AND ANTI- RACIST DISCOURSES IN HIMMANI BANNERJI’S “WIFE” AND “PAKI GO HOME”
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Vol 3 (1), 2016) Sushil Mary Mathews; T, Poornamathi Meenakshi
India and Canada have always been pluralistic societies which have assimilated several ethnicities. Whenever a new community conflates into the prevalent society, it has been marked with frictions and adjustments. These frictions along with nostalgia have become the central theme for diasporic writings. Indo-Canadian writers take their themes both from India and Canada. Himani Bannerji is an Indo–Canadian writer, sociologist, and philosopher from Kolkata. She was born in 1942 in West Bengal, India. She migrated to Canada in 1969 and has published two collections of poetry, A Separate Sky (1982) and doing time (1986), a children’s novel Coloured Pictures (1991), and several short stories. She is interested in feminist theory, gender and colonialism, class and race issues. She voices against all forms of domination, whether of gender, class or race. Bannerji’s works revolve around Marxist, feminist and anti-racist themes. This paper is an attempt to study the two poems, “wife” and ““PAKI GO HOME””, of Himani Bannerji who sensitises the readers to patriarchal and racist issues. She also raises her voice offering resistance against female subordination and the racist ideologies.
THE PORTRAIT OF THE NEW WOMAN IN SHOBHA DE’S SISTERS AND MANJU KAPUR’SHOME
(The criterion, An international Journal in English, 2016) Anusha Mathew
Indian English Literature is remarkable in the contributions made by its women writers. Shobha De and Manju Kapur are among them who attempt to portray the conditions of the Indian women who encounter various trials and tribulations due to the conflicting influence of tradition and modernity. They present the tormented consciousness of the urban middle- class women who in search of their own identity changes from a silent sufferer to a complete rebel moving against the age- old traditions, ethics and restrictions of the male dominated society. This sort of self-assertion is reflected in Manju Kapur’s Home and Shobha De’s Sisters. Both works set in a business background, present the central protagonists Mikki and Nisha as women who bravely face and struggle against the bounds of being ‘a woman’ and finally achieve their ardent quest towards being themselves. They affirm the capacity of the new educated Indian women to determine their priorities for self-discovery in emerging as a ‘new woman’.
REFLECTIONS OF LOVE IN THE SELECT URDU GHAZALS WITH REFERENCE TO SHAMA FUTEHALLY’S SILVERS OF A MIRROR: GLIMPSES OF THE GHAZAL
(International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL), 2016-02) T, Poornamathi Meenakshi
Urdu is a standardised register of the Hindustani language and has become popular after the establishment of Muslim rule in North India. It originated from Shauraseni, a middle Indo-Aryan language which is the predecessor of other modern languages. Urdu poetry or shairi has a rich tradition and is marked by true feelings and sentiments. It has many different forms, with ghazal being the most important one. Urdu ghazals have been widely translated owing to their popularity. Shama Futehally (1952-2004) was born in Bombay and studied English at the universities of Bombay and Leeds. Her translation of Meera’s Bhajans, In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera, was published in San Francisco. She has published two novels in New Delhi- Tara Lane and Reaching Bombay Central. Her translation of Urdu ghazals, Silvers of a Mirror: Glimpses of the Ghazal (2005) attempts to capture the best qualities of the ghazal in a contemporary voice. Ghazal is an Arabic word which literally means talking to women. It is a love-poem which initially addressed human love and later reached for the divine. It is often infused with music and has become a form of entertainment. This paper attempts to explore the theme of love in the select Urdu ghazals translated in English by Shama Futehally.
RETURN TO INNOCENCE – A STUDY OF JACK LONDON’S THE CALL OF THE WILD
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Review, 2016-03) RajiNarasimhan; Sushil Mary Mathews
Jack London's Call of the Wild is a novel that revolves around Buck, a well built dog who lives a comfortable and relaxed life in California. The transformation from a well trained house dog to a wild dog again is the journey that London impresses his readers with. The novel has a psychological strain where Jung's collective conscious plays a role to show how innate qualities of a species lies hidden for many generations to express itself when the need to survive arises. Jack London draws his young readers to empathize with his animals and feel the anguish of separation and loneliness. Adolescence is a challenge for everyone concerned. Parents teachers and teenagers themselves are in the dark about how to deal with emotional upheavals. Torn between childhood and adulthood, it is a stage of confusion and learning. London's novel portrays this struggle and expression in animals with whom the readers can readily relate to. This seminar paper intends to bring out the emotional turmoil and coming of age ideas that Jack London portrays in his novels which have a psychological bearing on his young readers.
RHYTHM OF LIFE IN RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON
(Language in India, 2016-03) V, Tamilselvi; R, Padmavathi
The Existential Theory of Rollo May discusses the purpose of freedom and anxiety in human beings. The life of the protagonist Bigger Thomas in the novel Native Son gives him a chance to choose his own way of life to attain either mental or physical freedom to choose and direct his life either constructive or destructive. Richard Wright’s Native Son is a protest novel. The three sections, fear, flight, and fate, bring out the nature of human life and shows that psychological changes will always make everyone to face either construction or destruction to one’s self or to others. The life of Bigger Thomas in Native Son reveals the strength of individual in forming his self-identity in American soil hich made him gain
TRANSLATING TAMIL HAIKU: TRANSCENDING LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL IMPEDIMENTS
(IJEL Trans Stellar, 2016-06) Narasingaram, Jayashree
Translation plays a vital role in our everyday life. An incredible work of art can be interpreted in myriad ways. It traces the essential human spirit that underlies literature from all languages. In a country like India, which has diverse languages and cultures, it acts as the unifying spirit. Translation is difficult, but not impossible, but it can never be accurate. It poses a huge linguistic barrier to the translator because of some insurmountable usages, syntax, semantics and style which differ vastly from the Source Language to the Target Language. Though it is the shortest form of literature, translating the haiku poses many challenges
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.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE: A STUDY OF RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON
(LangLit, 2016-11) V, Tamilselvi
This paper attempts to highlight the conditions of African American immigrants in American soil. Richard Wright is a post- colonial writer of 19th century African American writers, presented his themes of racial prejudice. It was the time of Great Depression, where most of the African American families started migrating from the south, in search for employment in the cities of north. The great depression is the stormy period in American history. The present work focuses on the analysis of the life of protagonist with glimpses of identity crisis and racism. This paper seeks to study the status of blacks under white supremacy and the feelings of rage or violence been the tool used by the character to find a solution. However, Richard Wright tries to bridge the gap between the whites and blacks with the speech of Boris A Max in the last section of the novel “Fate”. Richard Wright illustrates that racism is destructive to both the groups, though for different reasons. Bigger Thomas is the embodiment of black revolt against the injustices of white society; the revolt takes place in the form of murder.
HERSTORY IN HISTORY – WOMEN CHARACTERS IN HILARY MANTEL‟S WOLF HALL AND BRING UP THE BODIES
(IJARIIE, 2017) V, Mathangi; JAYANTHASRI, BALAKRISHNAN
Recovering the lost voices of women in history has been one of the significant endeavors of feminists. Women writers of the present century also venture to recreate the lives of women long gone and historical fiction is one of the most convenient genres for such representation. Hilary Mantel in her Tudor historical fiction Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies charts the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the Chief Minister of Henry VIII. Apart from featuring an unlikely hero, Cromwell, another striking aspect of the novels is Mantel‟s portrayal of the women characters. Focusing on the lives of the royal women, especially the first three wives of Henry VIII, Mantel highlights the predicament of these women, whose only role was to fulfill their biological duty of producing a male heir, failing which they were not even guaranteed the safety of their lives and much worse, were made victims of history by the discourse of their own bodies.
INTRINSIC VALUE OF ANIMALS AGAINST ANTHROPOCENTRISM: AN ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF LAWRENCE ANTHONY’S BABYLON’S ARC
(IJARIIE, 2017) Sofiya Azad; Narasingaram, Jayashree
The paper entitled ‘Intrinsic Value of Animals against Anthropocentrism: An Ecocritical Perspective of Lawrence Anthony’s Babylon’s Ark analyses the book in an ecological point of view. It proposes to analyse man-animal conflict that arises due to anthropocentrism. In our society, the term cruelty is becoming more powerful as days go on, as it is proven in the book Babylon’s Ark by Anthony. He was born on 1950 in Johannesburg. He is considered as wildlife guru in South Africa. He is an international conservationist, environmentalist, explorer and popular author. The book is analysed using the theory intrinsic value of animals formed by Tom Regan. It states three forms of respect towards animals by people. Anthony depicts the pitiable condition of the Baghdad Zoo animals to the society through his writings. He portrays how the animals suffered in the hands of looters, the black-market dealers and even by the common people. These all are global issues which must be discussed. Animal suffering takes place not only in Baghdad Zoo but all over the world. According to intrinsic value theory on animal, the three forms of respect showed by various people and their dedication towards the welfare of the Baghdad Zoo animals is analysed. Thus, the paper seeks to explore that it is the responsibility of each one of us to bring the natural world back into the proper place.
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.
EMBRACING MOTHERHOOD AS SEEN IN JODI PICOULT’S MY SISTERS KEEPER
(IJARIIE, 2017-02) Santhosh Priyaa J; Jenosha Preslin S
The role of mother in family bonding Jodi Picoult’s novels are widely acclaimed for her keen insights into human emotions. In her novel,My Sisters Keeper she weaves an emotionally riveting story of a family. It is considered as a tale of pathos, humour and love. The basic premise of the novel is a family trying to save their dying daughter by creating a “saviour sibling” named Anna, who is a thirteen years old, files a law suit for medical emancipation which tears the family apart. Throughout the novel Sara, a desperate mother fights to keep her daughter alive and also tries to hold the family peace through that. My Sisters Keeper is a cosmic tale about relationships and endurance and the ability of physical and psychic toll a desperately sick child imposes on, changes the life of the mother and the family forever.
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.