http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2099 2026-01-16T14:03:50Z 2026-01-16T14:03:50Z Noor Fathima http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2118 2022-05-26T09:27:33Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Panorama of Cultures Reflected in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake Authors: Noor Fathima Abstract: Jhumpa Lahiri, a renowned Pulitzer prize-winning immigrant writer born to the Bengali parentage in London in 1967. Her first novel, The Namesake was published in 2003 that reflects the immigrant life experiences and identities concerning the ties and clashes between the families. The study elaborates on the issues of displacement reverberated in the lives of the characters of the novel, The Namesake, and this tendency is shown inherent in the central character Gogol Ganguli. To live and settle in America, he assimilates the culture, nationality, and belongingness, and in due course of finding a new self- identity, otherwise called putting on fake personalities, he loses himself. Moreover, he started realizing that running away from reality will only improvise his agitations of both the Indian heritage and the American lifestyle. The study connects extensively with the transnational world to the world of cultures and identities where the people have a choice of their own to live and settle in their lives. The people in post-colonial times opt their own life the way they want to live or abandon their home for any reason. They are truly not forced by war or colonization to aspire to live under any hegemonic condition. However, this freedom leads to the later consequences and could not possibly be controlled while they adapt an unknown culture and the new identities where the experiences are often predictable. These cultural experiences, displacement, and even diasporic communities are turned out to be the international obligation that is welcomed. The quest for identity is the fundamental question that involves the self with its interlining factors of cultures, especially for immigrants

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Pritha Mukherjee Venkata Ramani.Challa http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2117 2022-05-26T09:27:33Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Journey from Oppression to Self -Discovery in Alice Walker's the Color Purple Authors: Pritha Mukherjee; Venkata Ramani.Challa Abstract: Alice Walker in her fiction portrays the journey of Afro-American women and their struggle with the social discriminations of hatred, humiliation, oppression, and frustration. Women are treated as the least beings and are deprived of the basic rights. They are treated as commodities without flesh, blood and a soul. Lack of education to these women is the main reason for discrimination and they are made submissive as they are not aware of their own status in the society.This paper aims at dealing with a saga of pain, suffering, humiliation, anger, resistance, suppression, revolt and in the last self-discovery, affirmation and celebration; true salvation of body, mind and soul from every kind of male made shackles in the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Through a womanist perspective, the study investigates black, female oppression as well as the possibility of independence through role models and female support.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Kirankumar Nittali http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2116 2022-05-26T09:27:33Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Partition Trauma and Women: Unending Lament in Shoba Rao’s “An Unrestored Women and other Stories” Authors: Kirankumar Nittali Abstract: The Partition of India has gained widespread scholarly attention as a result of its massive political, social, economic, historical and moral significance in not only the affected countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh but also the whole world. However, not much attention has been paid to the experiences of women during the partition particularly with regard to the violence inflicted upon them, the consequent trauma and then the inevitable reliving of those horrors in memory. This paper on Shobha Rao’s collection of short stories, An Unrestored Womenand Other Stories (2016) attempts to analyse select fictions and female characters who were victims of Partition, including those who experienced life in refugee homes and repatriation camps, the hitherto concealed narratives.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Narasimha Murthy S V http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2120 2022-05-26T09:27:33Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Voiceless People in Shivarama Karanth’s Chomana Dudi Authors: Narasimha Murthy S V Abstract: It is the literature of the oppressed people, telling about their pains, agonies, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, oppressions and depressions. It also speaks about their vibrant culture, dreams, values, convictions and their struggle for annihilation of caste in order to build a casteless society. It reveals their resistant and rebellious character, their strength and stamina to live amidst all odds and their resilient nature to love life and live it happily. This novel unraveled the inhuman aspect of morbid caste system and untouchability effectively. Dalit literature in its beginning was identified as specific protest directed against everyday humiliations that individual dalits and dalits as a community face. Chomana Dudi narrates the story of Choma, a bonded laborer, who was struggling to make the both ends meet, every day. He has two sons and a daughter, who were also working along with him. Every night Choma would start his drumming and he would find pleasure in it. Choma’s only dream is to till his own land, someday. Karanth is unique in his perspective of social justice and liberation in the context of a global situation marked by systematic oppression of an overwhelming majority of the people. He is committed to the emergence of a new society, free from external intrusion, domination, exploitation, social and political marginalization. He envisions an egalitarian social system and a new economic order.

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