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Item VOICING THE INNER CONFLICT IN KALKI SUBRAMANIAM’S KALI, MAHA KALI(International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, 2022-02) Rhema Sharon, JX; Sushil Mary, MathewsThe transgender communities in India are subjected to discrimination and violence throughout their lives due to their gender identity. This paper focuses on the physical and mental trauma trans people face in society as portrayed in the poem Kali, Maha Kali taken from We Are Not The Others: Reflections Of a Transgender Activist (2021) by Kalki Subramaniam. The poem is an outrageous cry of suffering she underwent during her transition. The study is validated through Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth. Sex is a biological trait whereas gender is a cultural facet. In Indian society, the consonance of gender is confined to male and female. And this scenario makes the third gender ignored and alienated. Kalki in her poem talks about the pain of subjugation she faced from her family, friends, and society.Item WONDER: OVERCOMING HIDDEN FEAR OF INDEPENDENCE(International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, 2022-01) Anjitha C, Ajith; Sushil Mary, MathewsThis paper focuses on the basic needs that children require during their developmental stages through the novel Wonder (2012) by R.J. Palacio. The theoretical framework used for analysing the novel is Social Learning Theory, a developmental psychological analysis propounded by Albert Bandura. The vital paradigm for the successful development of a child can be measured with his/her relationship with family, friends, relatives, and society as their growth is often linked with cultural and social influences. Through the character of August Pullman who is affected by Treacher Collins syndrome, a genetic condition or disorder which left him with a disfigured face, Palacio educates the readers about the problems endured by children with physical impairments. Implication of Bandura’s social learning theory to the text reveals how the society should be treating them with equal consideration and care.Item A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY ON THE POST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN IN NICCOLO AMMANITI’S I’M NOT SCARED(International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), 2022-10) Praise Vinitta Raj, V; Sushil Mary, MathewsLiterature makes multiple attempts to shape the lives of human beings. A literary work can be approached through multiple perspectives. Sociological and moralistic approaches take dominant roles in the study of any work of literature. The contemporary writers give more space to the inner development of the characters. In the modern era, psychoanalytical studies of characters have gained momentum in literary studies. The focus on childhood and family trauma facilitates a reorientation towards specific rather than overly tropological and abstract dimensions of trauma. This paper attempts to explore the novel I’m Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti in the light of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Through a detailed analysis of the character of the protagonist, this paper attempts to highlight the childhood trauma experienced by the children, which has a long-term impact almost throughout the lives of the children. It may include dangerous and life-threatening situations which lead the children into traumatic experiences.Item VOLITION OF MEDIATORS IN ALICIA POLLARD’S “GHOST”(International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), 2023-06-06) Ajayshia, J; Sushil Mary, MathewsThe widespread development of technology has brought laurels to various fields which includes the medical field. The present world keeps changing and the innovations brought about in the medical field have also an equal and upcoming competition in the black markets where ethics are put to question. The demand has made human beings put oneself first in most of the cases. Transhumanism dedicates its knowledge to the improvement of humans on three basic pillars with the notion of improving the intelligence, longevity and wellbeing. The Ghost is a short story written by Alicia Pollard which has the protagonist Eve living in a mining ship with multiple cabins designed just as if living on land. Her foster brother Simon has been with them for only three months. Just as it can be easy to put someone away from a crime, Eve takes a decision that alters a consistent network. This short story has various layers with stern determination that humans have indeed progressed. The interventions in the natural human body of Simon, has him in a state that is between a mechanical robot and a human. Using Latour’s Actor Network Theory, this paper will unfold the actants’ choices and also the indispensable actor that influences the choice. The equally important functioning actors are the crux of a system in the Actor Network Theory (ANT). The ethical state of the choices is debated with only a few moments to spare the transhuman. The paper also tests the human action based on the existing hybridity in reality and fiction.Item MEANING AND METHOD IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE(International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (IJSDR), 2022-08) Ponnulexmi, V; Ambika, SThe way in which, the concept of postcolonialism is understood depends to a greater extent colonialism on the particular narrative or explanatory scheme such as cultural, or theoretical and the various techniques employed by Rushdie to execute them. Narration is always an act of power as the narrator defines the narration to his will - simultaneously the act of narration is crucial to the narrator's identity because it is also the process of creating the process of becoming. These act of narration is crucial structural and thematic of the novel The Enchantress of Florence. Here the non-linear narrative is the main element, because it is a disjointed or disrupted narrative, out of chronological order is portrayed and the human memory is recalled by using the power of language.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 ANIMAL SLAUGHTER AND MEAT CULTURE IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EATING ANIMALS(International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), 2022-05) Snigdha S; Gomathi SRapid advancement in science and technology and a shift in the dietary habits of the world population have increased the rate of animals slaughtered for meat. Animal slaughter and factory farming are practices that can lead to devastating environmental consequences throughout the globe. The history of ‘meat culture’ among a huge number of people can be traced back to the period of industrialization. Over the ages, meat has become an indispensable part of our diet. Jonathan Safran Foer, an American novelist and non-fiction writer, tries to address the issue of animal slaughter and meat culture in his book, Eating Animals. He also points to the ecological consequences of meat consumption, its adverse effects on humans, the selective nature of eating meat, the abuse of animals for meat etc. This paper focuses on how Foer has highlighted the issue of animal slaughter and carnism in his non-fiction, Eating Animals.Item COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND MARGINALISATION IN JAMES BARTLEMAN’S A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE(IJARIIE, 2023) Anusha R; Gomathi SOrientalism is affiliated with the representation of Self or Occident and the Other or Orient in which the Self is privileged and has the upper hand to exercise power, to define, reconstruct the passive, silent and weak Other. According to Edward Said, “Other” is the false image of the Orient fabricated by Western thinkers in contrast with the civilized West. He is of the belief that colonialism persists in the colonized nations in the form of racism, chaos, and violence even after decolonization. James Bartleman, Canadian author, and a member of the Chippewas of Mnjikaning First Nation through his works of non-fiction and trilogy of social justice novels, provides the readers an awareness of indigenous history and thus helps in the decolonization of the mind of natives. Through the characters in this novel the writer draws attention to the voicelessness of Indigenous people and persisting colonial mindset among people of Canada. The paper focuses on the postcolonial understanding of the novel “A Matter of Conscience” in the light of Said’s Orientalism. The postcolonial concept of “Self” and “Other” has been used to contrast the settlers and indigenous community in the novelItem 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 WHAT DOES OUR FUTURE HOLD? AN ECO-MARXISTANALYSIS OF THE WINDUP GIRL BY PAOLO BACIGALUPI(Bodhi International Journal of Multidisciplinary Researches, 2018-03) C, Keren VinitaWith the advent of globalization, nature has become a tremendous commodity to favour man’s greed for power and money. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi features a future world where calorie companies take control of the food supply producing disease resistant rice, fruits that are bioengineered implying the fact that natural food are almost extinct.Despite the imminent environmental and climate collapse and destruction, the heads of calorie companies including Anderson Lake, Trade minister and other government officials continue in their deliberate apathy of nature, coveting again for gaining power. This paper aims to throw light on human survival, imbalance in ecosystems, schemes of corporates and climate change with reference to John Bellamy Foster’s Metabolic Rift Theory.