Volume Three

Contents of Volume III Number i (January 2018)

The Funky Monk and the Myth of the Solitary Author: John Frusciante and the Meaning of Authorship

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Dr Jessica L. Williams, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York <williamsjl@oldwestbury.edu>

(In)glorious Defeat:  Rethinking Humanity’s Victories Against Nature in Literature

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Anandarup Biswas, Assistant Professor in English, Shibpur DB College, Howrah <biswas.anandarup@gmail.com>

Violence in the City: A Look at the City-scape in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

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Sayan Aich Bhowmik, Assistant Professor in English, Shirakole Mahavidyalaya, South 24 Parganas <jishnuthe1@gmail.com>

The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence  in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

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Dr Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor in English, Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, Unakoti, Tripura <arunmukherjee2007@gmail.com>

 A Few Good Men: The Politics of Masculinity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God

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Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Assistant Professor in English, Sikkim University <aladen@cus.ac.in>

 Politics of the Workplace: Gender and Ethnic Identities at Work – A Study of Select American Novels

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Navaneeta Bhuyan, Senior Research Fellow, Tezpur University <navaneeta.bhuyan@gmail.com>

 Resisting Colonial Enterprise: A Postcolonial Study of Hind Swaraj by M. K. Gandhi

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Binayak Prasad Pradhan, Lecturer in English, S.K.C.G (Auto/Jr) College, Paralakhemundi, Odisha <binayak.english@gmail.com>

 Developing Listening and Reading Skills through Social Media using Apps

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Manjusha Susan George, Senior Research Fellow, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady <manjushaj20@gmail.com>

Non-Traditional Security & Rural Cultural Development by Tribes

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Jhuma Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Education, Chandernagore College, Hooghly <jhuma1111@gmail.com>

The Theme of Exile and Reconciliation in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life

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Sourav Banerjee, Assistant Professor of English, Mahitosh Nandy Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly <sourban28@gmail.com>

 

Contents of Volume III Number ii (July 2018)

The Overpopulation Apocalypse and Anthropocentric Bioterrorism in Dan Brown’s Inferno

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Samrat Laskar <samlas0@gmail.com>Government General Degree College at Kaliganj, Nadia 

A Study of the Pictorial Nama Traditions in the Medieval Period with Special Reference to the Hamza Nāma: From Orality to Audio-Visuality through Trans-mediality

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Ankita Dutta <ankitadutta.206@gmail.com>Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar 

 

The Satirical Caricatures of Gaganendranath Tagore

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Anavisha Banerjee <anavisha.banerjee@gmail.com>,Bharati College, University of Delhi

A Study of Offside: Clashes between Feminine Desire and Social Imposition

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Debleena Ghosh <debleena05@gmail.com>Independent Researcher 

Representational Politics in Bollywood Sports Movies of the 21st Century: Empowering Women through Counter Cinema

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Antara Mukherjee <antaramukherje@gmail.com>,Government Girls’ General Degree College, Kolkata 

Bharat Nirman and the Aestheticization of Politics

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Harshit Nigam <hnigam256@gmail.com>Independent Researcher

A ‘Space’ of One’s Own: Exploring the Language of Resistance in Select Poems of Meena Kandasamy

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Suranjana Bhadra <bhamun@gmail.com>MUC Women’s College, Burdwan 

 

Reading Literary Justice through Intertextuality in Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaf Trial

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Piya Srinivasan <piyasrinivasan@gmail.com>Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri: A Conflict between Myth and Reality, Faith and Scepticism

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Amar Dutta <amardutta34@gmail.com>Sarat Centenary College, Dhaniakhali 

 

Mapping the Urban Space: Representation of Mumbai in Dattani’s The Big Fat City

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Sreeja Konar <mallicksreeja@gmail.com>The University of Burdwan 

 

Examining the Politics of Female Identity and Ethnicity in Ngugi Wa Thiong’O

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Paulomi Sharma <sharmapaulomi@yahoo.com>,Jadavpur University 

Re-negotiating the Western: A Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

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Rohan Hassan <rohanhassan@gmail.com>Aliah University, Kolkata 

Ecocritical Perspectives in Select Novels of Toni Morrison

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Maniklal Bhanja <maniklal.bhanja@gmail.com>Tezpur College, Assam

Stella Thomas <stellakuderikal@gmail.com>Don Bosco College, Manipur 

Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India

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Soumya Goswamy <nupurgoswamy@gmail.com>,Chandernagore College 

A Discourse on Nāṭya (Indian Drama): Origin, Development and Technicalities

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Gargi Bhattacharya <visva2003@gmail.com>Visva-Bharati 

Book Review

Theatre Theory and Performance: A Critical Interrogation

Siddhartha Biswas 

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Review by

Abin Chakraborty <abin_chakraborty@yahoo.co.in>Chandernagore College