scholarly journals Indian English is also Creole: Incorporating Regional Bias in Research Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
Regional Bias ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Regional Autonomy

Research pedagogy in India should readjust itself to accommodate claims of regional autonomy in arts and letters. Different ways of reconstructing a pedagogy of research are recommended. Reflexive Humanism ensures adequate assessment and evaluation of cultural, literary, and aesthetic achievements of diverse populations. The Indian English corpus is redefined as a creolized Indian language with lexical and semantic factors borrowed from English. The consciousness of pro-national subjectivism is also considered an essential constituent of Indian English literature. Lines of research are suggested for aspiring scholars in the Indian academy. The author emphasizes a dynamic and sensitive adaptation of research methodology which respects and reintegrates itself with the evolution of globally aware, contemporary society in India.

scholarly journals Radical Voices in Indian English Poetry: A Study of the Poetry of Kamala Das

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dr. Karabi Goswami
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Anne Sexton ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
American Poet

The creative genius of Kamala Das, one of the most prominent voices of protest in Indian English Literature is often compared to the American poet Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton as both of them used the confessional mode of writing in their poetry. Kamala Das, born in 1934 in Thrissur district of kerela emerged as a distinctive poetic voice with the publication of the first volume of her poetry Summer in Calcutta. In her poems Kamala Das has always raised a voice against the conventionalized figure of a woman, seeking a more dignified and honourable position for woman as an entity. In fact her poetry addresses the most critical issue in the contemporary society-the need to awaken the women. Her poetry collections include- Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendents (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other poems (1973), Tonight, This Savage Rite (1979), The Collected Poems (1984). My Story published in 1976 is her autobiography

scholarly journals A cross-cultural analysis of female protagonist on selecting novel of chitra banarjee divakaruni and bharati mukherjee

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
G. Sankar ◽  
J. Prabhavathi ◽  
S. Sankarakumar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Female Protagonist

In the 21st century, women's writing in English has been considered as a powerful medium of modernism and feminist proclamation in the contemporary society of patriarchy life. The last two decades have witnessed extraordinary success in feminist writings of Indian English literature even Today is the generation of those women writers who are rich and have been educated in the West. Hence, this paper examines to analysis the cross-cultural values and divulgences of female protagonist’s of the great diasporic writers Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni and Bharati Mukherjee select novels. It also discussed the problems of women and in their suppressions in our post-modern society how they lost their identity and how do they feel their separation of culture from native land to an alien land.

scholarly journals Radical Voices in Indian English Poetry: A Study of the Poetry of Kamala Das

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dr. Karabi Goswami
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Anne Sexton ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
American Poet

The creative genius of Kamala Das, one of the most prominent voices of protest in Indian English Literature is often compared to the American poet Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton as both of them used the confessional mode of writing in their poetry. Kamala Das, born in 1934 in Thrissur district of kerela emerged as a distinctive poetic voice with the publication of the first volume of her poetry Summer in Calcutta. In her poems Kamala Das has always raised a voice against the conventionalized figure of a woman, seeking a more dignified and honourable position for woman as an entity. In fact her poetry addresses the most critical issue in the contemporary society-the need to awaken the women. Her poetry collections include- Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendents (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other poems (1973), Tonight, This Savage Rite (1979), The Collected Poems (1984). My Story published in 1976 is her autobiography. 

scholarly journals The Rise of Indian English and the Renaissance in Modern Indian Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 2886-2888
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
British Rule ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru

This article is about The Rise of Indian English and The Renaissance in Modern Indian Literature. This also brings in to light how the Indian Novel in English came into existence during the British rule in India. The History of English literature in our country come forth when English people entered into Hindustan in the name of trading. Inorder to overcome the problem of communication in an alien land the Englishmen pleaded for the adoption of their Language. In the long uneasy and interminable task of making English as an Indian language, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were the central figures.

A Complete Replica of Contemporary Indian Society in the Fictional Works of Chetan Bhagat: A Detailed Literary Analysis of his Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The Three Mistake of My

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Vikram Patel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Call Center ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Fiction Writers

hetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. Postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected thematic concerns in his fictions. In all his fictions, he has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social milieu of Indian society. Though the fictions of Chetan Bhagat are romantic in nature, contemporary Indian society and its major issues are the chief of the concerns of all his fictions. He has focused on the contemporary issues of middle class family in his fictional works. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of society. Most of the characters are like caricatures that represent one or the other vice or virtue of the contemporary Indian society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions.

scholarly journals Space and Identity of Women in Indian English Writings

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Dr. Abha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
True Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Traditional Image

The women’s studies have been receiving increasing academic and disciplinary recognition throughout the globe. The writers are determined to narrate, respond and react to the place of women in society. The purpose of the present paper is to redefine the image of women in post colonial Indian English literature. The post colonial Indian English writers focus on major issues relating to woman such as her awakening to the realization of her individuality, her breaking away with the traditional image. The transformation of the idealized women into an assertive self willed woman, searching and discovering her true self is described by various Indian Writers like Anita Desai, Sashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Kamla Markandaya, Manju Kapoor and many others have depicted females who are not silent sufferers but have learnt to fight against injustice and humiliation.  

A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteenth-Century India

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence W. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The State ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Male Prostitutes

A Common but curious sight of the Indian bazaar is the hijḍā, the ‘eunuch’ of Indian English. Obviously transvestites, the hijḍās beg from merchants who quickly, under threat of obscene abuse, respond to the silent demands of such detested individuals. On occasion, especially festival days, they press their claims with boisterous and ribald singing and dancing. Popular Indian opinion would label the hijḍās as nothing more than male prostitutes. Yet at the same time, and hinting at a more complex social function, they are expected if unwanted visitors at wedding parties and birth celebrations where they demand their share of the general largesse. Seen solely as one element in the fabric of contemporary society, the life of a hijḍā is surely ‘an alternative social role … which cater[s] not only for the temperamental misfits but also for disavowed yet persistent needs of the community as a whole’. However, such characterizations are made without much investigation of the ‘alternative social role’. The vast Indian underworld—the low caste and outcaste; the beggars, touts, petty criminals, and prostitutes; and also the hijḍā—has been much neglected as a subject of serious scholarship.

scholarly journals Economic Adversity and Disgrace in Untouchable

NUTA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Bhim Nath Regmi
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Concerns

Mulk Raj Anand has created a unique position as a Humanist and a social writer in India writing in English. He has contributed in the development of Indian English Literature and focuses on caste issue, economic adversity and disgrace rooted in Indian society. He has public concerns and humanity for the subjugated people and his characters represent the social reality of suppressed people of India. His first novel Untouchable is an account of a day in the life of its protagonist- Bakha, an untouchable sweeper. He describes the depressed conditions of the untouchables, their immitigable hardships and physical and mental agonies almost with the meticulous skill of historical raconteur

The Significance of the Short Story in Indian English Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. L. Marreddy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Voice

The beginnings of the Indian short story in English were made under the influence of the Britishers. English Short Story began towards the close of the nineteenth Century in India. It is the distinct from the fables of the ‘Hitopadesh’ and the tales of Panchatantra’. The short Story has become the major expression of literature in India which is used as a weapon to rise the voice of Indians against the Britishers culturally and Politically. The Fragmentation of experience as a result of the increasing complexity of social changes, seems to make the short story an apt vehicle for exploring the dark places of the human spirit and disembodied states of being. It is a voyage of discovery of self-discovery, of self – realisation for the character.

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