The Theme of Forgiveness in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter

Jamaica Kincaid is one of the best novelists in American-Antiguan writer in the present times. Born in St. Johns, Antigua in 1949. She moved to United States in 1965 to work as an au pair. She published her first article “When I was 17” for Ingénue magazine. At this time she changed her name from Elaine Potter Richardson to Jamaica Kincaid. Her novels mostly autobiographical nature and all of her writings are in some way about her life and her family. Kincaid has described her writings are as very autobiographical. Through her writings Kincaid tells the nature of the family relationships and homesickness. Her most recent books are My Garden (book), Talk Stories a collection of her New Yorker writings and My Favorite Plant, a collection of writing on gardens. She was gardener, novelist, essayist, and gardening writer. Her writing explores colonial discrimination, gender, racism, mother-daughter relationships and nature based themes. Caribbean fiction can be very useful to convey the messages of black people and their sufferings. Here also we discuss the sufferings of that people who longing for their identity especially the narrator of the novel Mr. Potter. &nbsp

A Married Woman’s Dilemma– A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence

Shashi Despandeis a creative post-colonial writer.She has wonderfully presented the problems,issues,and challenges of a middle-class married woman of modern India. In her novel ‘That Long Silence’ she has portrayed educated middle-class Indian women who get entangled in marriage and traditions.  Jaya is the name of the main character presented by Shashi Despande. Jaya gets married to Mohan who is an educated man working as an engineer in a company. Jaya and Mohan are married for seventeen years and have two children Rahul and Rati. Jaya is not happy in her married life due to the patriarchial role of her husband Mohan. But in these seventeen years,they do not grow close to one another in married life, rather a long silence grew between them.Jaya is in despair in a male-dominated family. Mohan is a man who plays a dominant and leading role in the family. Jaya is dependent on him as a married lady, wife, and mother.Mohan controls her personal and professional life decisions. He limits her freedom of writing and expression as a writer and wants Jaya to write according to his choice. This paper discusses the dilemmas of a married woman living in anguish and hopelessness. In her loneliness, Jaya goes through a self-evaluation of her life. It’s in this fragmented state of the trauma she realizes that her silence can not solve her marriage.So she decides to break her silence and speak with her husband Mohan with the hope to find a solution and restore their marriage

Manifestation of Pessimism in Toni Morrison’s Select Works: Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Jazz

Toni Morrison’s works are elevated voice of Afro-American culture. As Afro-American has been bearing the burden of past history, slavery, race, gender and identity crisis issues in society, Toni Morrison herself forced to speak about them in their works. She herself is the part of historic past events like racism and identity crisis issues and that’s why her mind is more into the pain which they suffered. Toni Morrison is more focused on pessimism to show the reality and harsh truth of society, which reflected through her characters.  No doubt Toni Morrison was loud to raise the problematic issues strongly but her appeal to wove her characters is tend to their circumstances, how they tortured and suffered through their whole life and it continues generation to generation. The clear aim of Morrison is to make aware today’s generation about Afro-American society its history about the injustice. So that they can be aware of their rights and able to fight for own

Modernity Versus Tradition in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel: A Critical Analysis

Wole Soyinka has been recognized as one of the most talented of twentieth century playwrights. Nigerian writer Soyinka who wins the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, always emphasizes his Yoruban roots in plays. His play, The Lion and the Jewel, was published in 1959, just before Nigeria becomes independent and while Nigerians are debating whether to move into the future or leave their past behind. The focus of this paper is to explain how Soyinka uses art of characterization and plot construction to investigate the Nigerian conflict between modernity and tradition

Quest for Identity: A look into Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things and Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows

The paper discusses the identity crisis faced by the women living in different strata of the society. At times, women are pushed out of the main circle and are forced to remain unrepresented and unheard. Though literature has discussed such issues from time to time, it’s still a matter of concern. Here, the paper presents the identity crisis faced by the women in Arundathi Roy’s God of Small Things and Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows and the struggle that they had undergone

Reading Nagamese ‘MakroLi ’as a Pastoral Lyric

This research paper seeks to studyMakro Li,  the indigenous group song of the Chakhesang tribe of Nagamese people with reference to the conventions of pastoral poetry.The song offers a glimpse into idyllic village life in the hilly countryside and invokes the utopian vision of purity and innocence in tranquil pastoral life. The lyrics are also interspersed with nuances of post-pastoral eco-poetics.The folk song thus echoes elements of  pastoraland post-pastoral poetry and offers a glimpse of Nagamese culture through the description of workers in their paddy fields

Un-Silencing the Past: A Juxtaposition of Personal and Political in Elif Shafak’s Novel, The Bastard of Istanbul

This paper explores the thematic aspect of bastard and the alternative spaces present in the novel to show how Armenian genocide is addressed and unsilenced    from the censorship of the State. The juxtaposition of the Armenian issue with the tribulations of ‘Kazanci’ family is argued as a metaphorical and personalised account of Armenian genocide. Such an engagement with the past has been made possible by bringing political and personal together in the form of a family in Istanbul and a family in America; one belonging to a Muslim majority and the other belonging to an Armenian religious minority

Traces of Spiritual Nationalism in the Selected Poems of Ranu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam

Ranu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam are contemporary Indian English Poets. They are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Their poems are full of Indian ethos and deal with a wide variety of subjects. Spiritual nationalism is one of them. Like Aurobindo Ghosh, for them nationalism means true devotion towards one’s country and its people irrespective of their faith, caste, race and sex. India is a multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country. The conflicts on the basis of religion and culture are inevitable. People are often misguided by conservative and narrow- minded religious leaders and politicians which sometimes results in riots. Both Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that riots in a multicultural country like India are inescapable. India has faced so many invasions and incursions but continued to grow with the passage of time. The biggest strength of India is its spiritualism. It has empowered it during all external and internal assaults. Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that the negative forces which are destroying the peace and harmony of the nation can be defeated by realizing the core values of Indian culture. The objective of this research paper is to compare and explore the national ethos present in their selected poems: “In a City of Riots” by Uniyal and “Home” by Subramania

Reflection of Modern Civilization with all its Degenerative Facets in Prufrock

The proposed research article is an attempt to make an analysis and understand the concept of spiritual degeneration and materialism of modern civilization as reflected in TS Eliot poem "Love song of J Alfred prufrock" . Eliot has given English poetry a new direction where the poet must not remain confined within his own self ,but must merge with his individual self in the social milieu,the public environment.Modern men become spiritually dead , they lack social value and have only love for materialistic outlook. The present poem holds up the mirror to understand the complex culture, spiritual degeneration and the post-industrial condition of the modern man that is relevant today. The present work discusses how the poem is still relevant to modern society, to modern value and to modern outlook with its modern and penetrative poetic idea

Predictors of Learner’s Goal Orientation in the Indian KFL Context: A Learner's Background and Scocio Psychological Perspective

Korean language education in India has marked its 56th year this year. With its footprints marking from the year 1971, there has been a remarkable progress in last 50 decades. Starting from a number as few as 3 to a larger number of 300(approx.) Indian students at present learning Korean language all over India, shows the increasing interest of Indians in Korean language and culture. Among some of the pioneer names in India, various institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Central University of Jharkhand, EFLU Hyderabad, Manipur University are the well know institutions. Various different kinds of Korean language programs for both long-term and short-term courses are conducted in these institutions. As the very aim of any education marks the first steps of the learning process, it is very vital for us to understand the aims of the learners, as to understand why and how they thought of learning a particular language. It not only gives a prospective for designing learner-centered curriculum, but also helps a teacher to understand the various factors, which result in individual performance and learning processes. As many of us would believe that learners have certain characteristics, which lead to more or less successful achievements of their aims of learning the language. Every human being has set of factors affecting their process of language learning and hence it is crucial to understand the background of a learner in order to provide him/her with the right tools to learn a language. Indian learners growing up in a multicultural and multilingual environment, have a certain degree of peculiarities in terms of language learning competence. They have various demographic, motivational learning factors and resource factors acting upon them. Hence, with the same focus this paper tries to identify the wide spectrum of aims of Indian learners in correlation with the socio psychological perspectives pertaining to their personal family and linguistic background. This study is also exploring as to how the multicultural and multi-linguistic background of Indian learners affect their aims and achievements of language learning