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Item VIGNETTE OF ECO-NOSTALGIA IN AKKINENI KUTUMBARAO’S SOFTLY DIES A LAKE(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR), 2022-09) Kaviya, K; Narasingaram, JayashreeSoftly Dies a Lake written by Akkineni Kutumbarao in Telugu as Kolleti Jadalu and translated to English by Vasanth Kannabiran is a revisit to, a recollection of and a nostalgia on the lake Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh. Hit by the aquaculture industry boosted by the Blue Revolution, fast booming industrialism, unsupervised governance of few authorities, uneven monsoon patterns combined with diversion of river waters and the greed of the humankind, Kolleru, a once sprawling body of freshwater in India, is currently reduced to its mere capacities. The splendour of the lake is at present remembered only through the recollection of memories by its natives, who lament over its degenerated state and hope to revive it back to its finery. This emotion, found common among the natives of a land devastated by climate change and ecological issues, called eco-nostalgia is a relatively new study in anthropology and discusses how it is encountered, experienced and reacted to. Though not studied much in literature, literature can prove to be an excellent medium at studying eco-nostalgia in human subjects as it is the characters and their experiences with the land and society that steer head the plot. Apropos this, this paper studies the depiction of eco-nostalgia in an environment seriously damaged and threatened by climate change using the four propositions of eco-nostalgia propounded by Angé and Berliner in Softly Dies a Lake; the practical possibility to study eco-nostalgia from literature based on true events and;Item MIGRATION AND OIL-CENTRIC LIFE: A STUDY ON GHASSAN KANAFANI’S MEN IN THE SUN(IAFOR Publications, 2022-10-28) Jeyasiba, Ponmani Sami; Narasingaram, JayashreeThe oil narratives bring in a gamut of perspectives that would redefine the outlook of life. Modern life is embedded in the discovery of oil and the usage of hydrocarbon fuels. Petrofiction offers a scope for understanding the representation of oil aesthetics in literature. The research paper aims to critically expound the transformation after the sudden boom of wealth in Kuwait due to the discovery of oil, and the migration of Palestine refugees from Iraqi camps to Kuwait in search of jobs to upgrade their living conditions with reference to Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani. The study authenticates the oil-centric life in Men in the Sun by understanding that oil is the base structure that governs the “push”, “pressure” and “stay” factors of a refugee in flight with theoretical support of kinetic model of exile, displacement and resettlement as proposed by Egon F. Kunz.Item PETRO-WARFARE AND DEPARTED CHILDHOOD: A STUDY OF MARJANE SATRAPI’S PERSEPOLIS AS A PETROFICTION(2022-07-07) Jeyasiba Ponmani S; Narasingaram, JayashreeSince the beginning, fuel resources have been imperative to sustain life on earth. The benchmark of civilisation is noted by the evolution in the usage of fuel resources over a period of time. Transformation from wood, tallow, coal, whale oil to fossil fuels saw the advent of modern industrialised society. The oil resources have played a significant role in designing the economic and historical construct of contemporary times. Petrofiction is the representation of the petroculture in literature. The greed for power and capital has modified oil from being an energy resource to a weapon for social, political and economic domination. The discovery of oil in Iran transformed the prospects of the country, and it became the battlefield of hegemony and politics. This paper aims to critically view Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, as a petrofiction by analysing the historical setting and how oil propels the main action of the story. The consequences of the oil war, and how both the internal and external cues like trauma and war affect the behavioural pattern of the children, are studied using this graphic novel. Thus, the paper signifies the magnitude of the oil narratives, and their importance in the current anthropocene epoch.Item ENDURANCE THROUGH ASPIRATION: A STUDY OF REFUGEE CRISIS IN ATKA REID AND HANA SCHOFIELD’S GOODBYE SARAJEVO(JARDCS, 2019) Preethi Ravi; Narasingaram, JayashreeWar is unpredictable, so are its consequences. A siege due to war is a military blockade of a city by one party holding a strong, static and a defensive position through proving their dominance by the usage of their military, economic and political powers. The supressed become refugees and their life is at stake. Goodbye Sarajevo is a memoir which renders the life of Sarajevans under the siege and their journey from Sarajevo as refugees to New Zealand by proving life is possible even after dire circumstances. Charles R. Synder’s Hope theory has been applied to expose the optimism in the natives of Sarajevo as they survive by envisaging hope as the through fare between their dreams and goals.Item PARADIGM OF FEMINISTIC INTROSPECTION IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF COETZEE(IJELLH, 2018) Kanchana C M; Narasingaram, JayashreeJ.M. Coetzee is the most celebrated South African novelist. He has engraved the feministic persona in a variety of dimensions. The emergence of postcolonial feminism is due to the direct repercussion of colonialism, imperialism, and primitivism. It can be regarded as an invasion into the intricacies of thoughts in the societal hegemonic set up. The term colonial feminism echoes the word equality in gender perspective. It follows a different conduit of diversity; true feminism finds a channel to cease the implication of sexism, racism and servitude in their totality. Coetzee’s prime novels, In the Heart of the Country, Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe, encompass the theme of women and femininity. The women characters in these novels are positioned differently being pertinent to the Apartheid era. In the former South African society the governance of patriarchy led to the pathetic plight of women. The portrayal of women characters in Coetzee’s novels visibly exhibit the dark side of masculinity where women are ill-fully taunted and marginalised. Magda in In the Heart of the Country, Lucy and Melanie in Disgrace, Barbarian girl in Waiting for the Barbarians, Susan Barton in Foe are the emblematic illustrations of indignity. In Disgrace, both Lucy and Melanie undergo a mental instability because of seduction, whereas the barbarian girl and Susan Barton suffer an identity crisis in Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe respectively.Item TRANSLATING TAMIL HAIKU: TRANSCENDING LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL IMPEDIMENTS(IJEL Trans Stellar, 2016-06) Narasingaram, JayashreeTranslation 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 challengesItem KALEIDOSCOPIC PANORAMA IN VICTORIA HOLT’S THE QUEEN’S CONFESSION(Bodhi IJRHAS, 2018) Narasingaram, JayashreeVictoria Holt is a writer par excellence who is renowned for her Gothic and Historic fiction. The novel chosen for study, The Queen’s Confession is a fictional autobiography of the most famous monarch of France, Marie Antoinette, Dauphine and wife of Louis XVI. The story lays bare her joyous childhood days in Vienna and traces her evolution as the last Queen of France, who in the lap of splendour and luxury became a pleasure- seeking lovely woman whose future was doomed. She was one of the greatest women of her times, who transformed the opulent and plush Palace of Versailles into her playground. She has her own inglorious moments as she is always looked down as a foreigner and is caught in the web of personal agony and inexperience. Envied by all for her affluence, she became indifferent and deaf to the cries of the common people, which paved the way for the outbreak of the French Revolution. The novel culminates in the death of this passionate royal. Holt unravels this biographical fiction, which at once is also a memoir and also attains the perspective of an epistolary novel as she adopts all these literary devices to support her story and knit it as closely as possible with history and reality.Item FEMALE PSYCHE AND THE QUEST TO MOVE ON IN LIFE IN ANITA NAIR’S LESSONS IN FORGETTING(The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2017-02) S, Shiji; Narasingaram, JayashreeIn India, today, the woman is neither free nor dependent. She is lying somewhere in between the two. However, the urge for identity and independence is present in the women-folk of the Indian society. The focus of this paper will be on the empowerment of female protagonists in Anita Nair’s novel, Lessons in Forgetting. Anita Nair’s, Lessons in Forgetting (2010) is a heartwarming story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances. Lessons in Forgetting contains two inter-twined narratives of loss. The novel narrates the tale of two individuals, who manages to work through all the odds. In the present article Anita Nair writes about the search of self of her woman characters and their assertion of the individual self.Item STUDY OF ATTACHMENT THEORY IN SUDHA MURTHY’S THE MOTHER I NEVER KNEW(IJARIIE, 2018) N R, Prashanthi; Narasingaram, JayashreeThe introduction traces the plot of the protagonist named Mukesh. This remains to be the second novella out of two in the novel The Mother I Never Knew which was written by the author Sudha Murthy. The author has highlighted the significance of emotional attachment by the younger adults towards the aging parents. The youngsters these days should handle the older adults with care and respect instead of neglecting them is elucidated in this story. The protagonist, who is referred as Munna in the text is brought up by the parents Sumati and Rao Saheb and lives abroad with his wife when the plot begins. Later he visits India when his father’s demise news reaches him. The story takes sudden twist and turn when a mysterious child photograph of him being with his sister is found. This gives way to an entirely new unknown flashback. He comes to know that he is not the biological son of Sumati and Saheb. Later which he goes in search of his biological parents with a hope of meeting them at least for once which will be a answer to his million questions. The Attachment theory is applied to the plot in order to demonstrate the emotional attachment between the parents and the children. The paper also narrates how theory applied explains about the expectations that arise out of the attachment one share with each other. It also explains the complex situations that arise out of different bond and relationships shared by the characters in the plot. The concept of how Geriatrics is narrated in the novel by the author is also analyzed in this paper.Item INTRINSIC VALUE OF ANIMALS AGAINST ANTHROPOCENTRISM: AN ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF LAWRENCE ANTHONY’S BABYLON’S ARC(IJARIIE, 2017) Sofiya Azad; Narasingaram, JayashreeThe 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.