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Item LOVE, SUFFERING, AND HOPE IN EDWIDGE DANTICAT’S “CHILDREN OF THE SEA”(Language in India, 2018-02) T, Poornamathi Meenakshi; Sushil Mary MathewsEdwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 19, 1969. She is a Haitian-American diasporic writer who writes in English. Danticat’s first novel Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) had been selected by the Oprah Book Club in 1998. Her short story collection Kirk? Krak! published in 1995, became a National Book Award finalist. The first story in the short story collection KK is “Children of the Sea”. In this story, Danticat vividly pictures the political violence in Haiti, which is located in the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. Haiti gained its independence from France in 1803. The aftermath of the political situation and the ruthless regimes threatened the very existence of humanity. Amidst the violence and suffering, Haitians continue to love and remain hopeful. Haiti, widely popular for its poverty and repression, has an overlooked story of resistance. Haitians have played a remarkable role in shifting the correspondence of political and social power, even as they have endured distressing state-sponsored violence which includes torture, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination. Danticat, who is concerned with the plight of Haiti and Haitians, fuses the political with the personal in her stories and thereby she creates testimonials which aim to address the social injustice. This paper attempts to picture the unyielding spirits of the Haitians even in the face of unfathomable loss.Item CONFIGURATION OF MEMORY IN EDWIDGE DANTICAT’S BREATH, EYES MEMORY(Paripex-Indian Journal of Research, Vol 6 (3), 2017-03) T, Poornamathi Meenakshi; Sushil Mary MathewsMemory is the ability to recall or remember information or events in the past. This is carried out through three distinct processes such as encoding, storage and retrieval. Memory plays a significant role in the narratives of Edwidge Danticat, a Caribbean-American Diasporic writer. The protagonists in Danticat's novels are very much influenced by their past and its memories. These memories act both as a preserver and destroyer of life in her novels. In Breath, Eyes, Memory, it acts as a destroyer. The protagonist Sophie is haunted by the memories of 'testing' and her mother Martine is obsessed with nightmares of rape. This paper attempts to study the impact of memory on the psyche of Danticat's characters.Item 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 MeenakshiIndia 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.Item IDENTITY AND INTEGRATION: A STUDY OF R.CHUDAMANI’SBHUVANA AND PLANET GURU(IJELLH (International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities), 2018-09) R, Maheswari; Sushil Mary MathewsIdentity of a person, identifying with the group, society is the right of every individual. In the society that is an amalgamation of varied aspects- social, cultural, ethnic, and economical, identifying oneself without being pushed to the fringe is a concern for any man. Of all these factors, economic marginalization becomes sometimes very acute even within a monolithic society. Writers have been sensitive to this issue and R. Chudamani is one such South Indian writer whose short stories are poignant narratives of such ordinary men who struggle to pull themselves from the margin to the centre of the society. This community suffers from the hurt of double edged sword- religious beliefs and economic poverty. Bhuvana and Planet Guru is one such story. This paper analyses the different contours of economic marginalization, its impact on the people.Item GENDER,NATION AND IDENTITY IN AHDAFSOUEIF’SSANDPIPER(Paripex- Indian Journal of Research, 2016-03) RajiNarasimhan; Sushil Mary MathewsAhdafSoueif 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.Item 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 MathewsJack 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.