Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen.

Review of Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen

Review of Songs from a Far Island by Roshanak Amrein.

Review of Songs from a Far Island by Roshanak Amrein

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Land degradation: links to agricultural output and profitability

To understand land degradation and assess policy responses, knowledge is needed of the bio-physical causes, the economic effects on farms and the incentives farmers face to avoid or ameliorate the degradation. An empirical study of land degradation in the Australian state of New South Wales is presented in this article. The results suggest that there are incentives for farmers to co-exist with certain forms of degradation, while there are also incentives to avoid some other forms.Land Economics/Use,

Orientalism in James Joyce's Araby

James Joyce's Araby is essentially a teenage love story. Yet its texture, woven with the Orientalist metaphorical imageries, Eastern dictions bazaar and Araby and reference to the historical Araby bazaar, likens it to a latent Orientalist discourse. Orientalism divides the story into two parts. In one part, the Irish boy's fascination to the Orient is reflected and the other part is the negation of those popular ideas. The first one refers to Irish Orientalism that in the nineteenth and twentieth century offered Irish people an alternative cultural identity different from English Colonialism. Yet this identification of the Orient with a romantic refuge at first and then contrastively with a place of degeneration, depravity and despair explains James Joyce's ambivalence towards the matter of the Orient. Joyce, using the Orient as a tool to orient the boy to the reality of his existence in drab Dublin, teaches the young boy that escapist fascination to the Orient is a vain vision for an Irish. My article focuses on this dissolution of Irish Orientalism into the English-French Orientalism, a paradoxical representation of the Orient, and hopefully will revitalize the understanding of the story. Keywords: Irish Orientalism, Joyce's ambivalence to the Orient, Orientalism

Review of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem by Frederick Glaysher

Review of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem by Frederick Glayshe

Cultural hybridity and (dis)location of female agency in Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare baire or The home and the world

The character Bimala in Tagore’s Ghare Baire or The Home and the World as a symbol of the struggle for the liberation of Bengali woman as well as Bengal is a centre of scholarly discussion since the publication (1916), translation (1919) and the film adaptation (1984) of the novel. This essay focuses on Bimala and interrogates the location of her agency with respect to her relationship with Nikhil and Sandip. Based on Homi Bhabha’s concepts of occult instability and cultural hybridity, and Laura M. Ahearn’s concept of agency, I investigate how, during the occult moment of the Swadeshi movement, Nikhil and Sandip’s hybrid personalities dislocate Bimala from her home and the world and entrap her into a harrowing stasis and melancholy