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Item 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 SThe 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.Item 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 SSouth 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.Item DILEMMA OF THE DISPLACED: BHARATHI MUKHERJEE’S DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS(Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore, 2012-03) Lavanya SBharati 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.Item EXPOSITIONS OF EXPATRIATE ENCUMBRANCE IN UMA PARAMESHWARAN'S ROOTLESS BUT GREEN ARE THE BOULEVARD TREES(PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, 2011-04) Lavanya SUma 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)Item 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 SThe 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 landItem 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 KThe 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 degradationItem 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 SMahasweta 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.Item A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S WIFE(International Journal of English And Literature (IJEL), 2015-08) Lavanya SMukherjee 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.Item 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 SDr. 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.Item NEGOTIATING CULTURAL CHANGE: GITHA HARIHARAN’S THE THOUSAND FACES OF NIGHT(The IUP Journal of English Studies. Vol VI No .3, 2011-09) Lavanya SLiterature 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.