scholarly journals The Concept of Liberation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Ambili M.
Keyword(s):  
Female Voice ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Indian Epic ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
Female Writers

The great Indian Epic Mahabharata celebrates the battle between Pandavas and Kauravas and signifies Draupadi as the fundamental cause of it. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni unwrapped this belief and made Draupadi a powerful woman with great determination and courage. The Epics all over the world has portrayed woman as pale shadows of men, and men as great warriors. This silence of women has triggered Divakaruni to retell the epic in female voice. Literature always tried to share the changes in society. Unveiling the perfect lady images to the woman, modern female writers made their own literature. This paper goes through the life of an epic woman who has strong cravings of liberation. Also tries to find out whether a female protagonist can undergo inclinations in the life of Male characters who always hold the seal of divine figure, who always live for the warfare.

A DYSTOPIAN VISION IN THE PALACE OF ILLUSION- A CRITICAL STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Simran Siwach
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
South Asian Immigrants ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ◽  
Indian Epic

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an author, poet, activist and professor. She is considered an Indian American writer. Divakaruni often focuses on the experience of South Asian immigrants and her works are largely set in India and the United States. The present paper deals with the reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's remarkable historical ction- “The Palace of Illusion”. A number of researches have been done on this work with a Feminist and Psychological approach. This research paper will attempt the analyzing the work with an alternative perspective which is a Dystopian vision. With answering these questions- How Divakaruni's work- 'The palace of Illusion' is re-imaging the protagonist's perspective in a dystopian society instead of retelling the Indian epic? How dystopian vision is an appropriate choice for analyzing the present work? The paper will also argue that Dystopia is not just bounded to science ction although it can also be related to other genres of ction.

EPIC - THE SOURCE OF THE “SOFT POWER” OF INDIAN CULTURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Thuy Le Thi Bich
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Epic ◽  
Historical Culture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

The power of each nation is determined by many factors, including the role of its culture. Culture is seen as an effective tool of soft power to affirm the image of our country in the international community. As one of the originating centers of Asian civilization and one of the largest, oldest civilizations in the world, India's soft power exists naturally in its own long historical culture. The Indian epic is considered to be the source of soft power, the link between the world and Indian culture, helping Indian culture expand its influence on other countries and the world. In this article, we focus on presenting the unique features of thinking, soul, thought, and “Indian spirit” reflected in the epic - the source of Indian culture and the epic continuation in countries in Southeast Asia. Thereby, this article helps its readers have a comprehensive view of the Indian epic - the source of “soft power” of Indian culture in Southeast Asian countries to strengthen and develop the relationship between India and other countries in Southeast Asia more and more sustainably and lasting.

Zigzag to Russia

Sacred Sea ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Small City ◽  
Train Station ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Shore ◽  
Train System ◽  
The Way

The Fukuoka train station feels nearly asleep as the clock heads toward 11:00 p.m. Perhaps the station in this small city on Japan’s western shore always feels nearly asleep, no matter where the clock is heading, but we hope not to have to find out. There’s a train leaving for Kyoto in a few minutes, and we hope to be on it. We had no idea when we left Korea whether there actually was an overnight train from Fukuoka to Kyoto, but the way I figured it, it’s Japan, the place that’s supposed to have the best train system in the world—there has to be. And now here we are in Fukuoka and we’ve found out that I’d guessed right, and we’ve caught the snappy little bus that was waiting outside the terminal to take us to the station, hauled our stuff off the bus, quickly tried to ascertain from the kaleidoscope of Japanese signs and strange symbols which way the ticket lobby might be, and turned to head in that direction. What we still have no idea about is whether we’ll be able to find out if there are any seats left on the train, get our rail passes validated, get tickets, and find our way to the platform before the train slips off into the warm September night in less than half an hour—especially since it quickly became apparent that few people out here in the Japanese hinterlands speak English. And now as we hitch up our backpacks and take our first steps toward the lobby, a voice comes from behind us, a female voice in heavily accented but well-practiced English, and it’s saying, “Can I help you?” We turn back and where not a moment ago there was nothing but still night air there is now a beautiful young woman and, I’m pretty sure, the fading swirls of a puff of smoke. Out of nowhere has materialized our own little Glinda the Good Witch, only Japanese, and without all the glitter and lace.

scholarly journals Female Roles in La Cinta Dorada by María Manuela Reina and Models of the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Aguilar López ◽  
Marta Miguel Borge
Keyword(s):  
Internal Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Psychological Balance ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Female Drama

Our model of the world that we perceive within ourselves, our conscience, in short, our psychological balance is influenced by our surroundings. Part of the input to which we are exposed in this immediate environment is related to texts, self-managed discourse, which can also influence our internal model of the world; hence they are deserving of our attention. In the same way as the models of the world that we construct throughout our lives, reality is not static and also changes as time goes by. From a social point of view, we can see that the roles of women in modern-day society and the ways that those roles can be perceived today are a consequence of changes initiated in the past within different areas and in a prolonged process over time up until our day. With the aim of evaluating whether female drama has contributed to that change, we present an analysis in this paper of the play La Cinta Dorada [The Golden Ribbon] by María Manuela Reina, written and set in the 1980s, a decade that for Spain implied a more obvious abandonment of the most traditional conceptions of the role of women. In the analysis of the play, we see how the models of the world of the older people are counterposed with those of the younger people, a generational divide that is enriched with the gender difference, as we also analyze how the psychological structures of the female and male characters confront the clichés pertaining to another era in reference to such topics as success, infidelity, matrimony, and gender. The results of our analysis demonstrate how Reina responds to archaic conceptions, thereby inciting the audiences of the day to question their respective models of the world, especially, with regard to the role of the woman in society. 

scholarly journals The Father Figure in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (136) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Merna Thaer Alias ◽  
Isra Hashim Taher
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Father Figure ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light

The father figure has been a dominant theme in the works of the American southern novelist Anne Tyler (1941- ). She explores the psyche of male characters and tries to shed light on the struggles that the postmodern men go through in their daily life. She utilizes the chaos that occurs in their life to highlight their development. Family plays a major role that helps the father to understand the world around him. The Accidental Tourist (1985) tells the story of Macon Leary, a father who loses his only son and falls into grief. He loses his aim in life until he meets a woman called Muriel, who changes many things about him.

Pengaruh Media Sosial terhadap Rancangan Cerita Detektif Penulis Perempuan KPPI Bandung

Metahumaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Lestari Manggong
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
Observational Methodology ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
Detective Stories

AbstrakPembahasan dalam tulisan ini berfokus pada hasil kegiatan pelatihan bagi Komunitas Penulis Perempuan Indonesia (KPPI) Bandung untuk penulisan cerita detektif yang struktur alur ceritanya merujuk pada pola dalam cerita detektif Sherlock Holmes. Tujuan dari pembahasan ini adalah untuk meneorikan pengaruh media sosial terhadap rancangan cerita detektif penulis perempuan, yang dalam hal ini diwakili oleh anggota KPPI Bandung. Pembahasan yang dijabarkan dalam tulisan ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan metodologi observasional. Dari hasil brainstorming dan clustering yang dilakukan ketika pelatihan, diperoleh daftar 6 topik cerita. Dari daftar topik tersebut, 4 di antaranya mengemuka sebagai akibat dari pengaruh media sosial. Simpulan yang diperoleh dari pembahasan tentang hasil tersebut adalah bahwa dunia yang dikenal oleh partisipan pelatihan adalah dunia yang dipengaruhi kuat oleh keberadaan media sosial, sehingga hal ini berpengaruh terhadap kecenderungan pengumpulan topik cerita.Kata kunci: cerita detektif, media sosial, penulis perempuan, brainstorming, clustering.AbstractThe discussion in this essayfocuses on the workshop results conducted for the Indonesian Women's Writers Community (KPPI) Bandung for detective stories writing with storyline structure referring to Sherlock Holmes. The purpose of this discussion is to theorize the influence of social media on the design of female writers' detective stories, represented by members KPPIBandung. The discussion described in this essay uses qualitative methods with observational methodology. From the results of brainstorming and clustering, a list of 6 topics for the stories was obtained. From the list of topics, 4 emerged as a result of the influence of social media. The conclusion obtained from the discussion about these results is that the world known to participants attending the workshop is a world that is strongly influenced by the existence of social media, which causes an effect on the tendency in the topics of stories obtained.Keywords: detective story, social media, women’s writers, brainstorming, clustering.

“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!”: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to as early as the 9th century, is probably the greatest introduction to Arabic culture through literature. This colossal and diverse book has drawn the attention of scholars, researchers and students to classic Arabic literature as well as influenced many prominent authors and filmmakers. It is not just a book of careless and unconnected stories but rather a piece of esteemed literature which has been read and analysed in many countries all over the world. However, it is also true that this book has been criticised for its sexual promiscuity and degraded portrayal of women. The aim of the presentation is to prove that underneath the clumsy and seemingly funny structures of One Thousand and One Nights, there is a description of overflowing sexuality. Through the sexualised or erotic description of female bodies, the book gives agency to women but at the same time depicts them derogatively, and thus fulfils the naked desire of the then patriarchal society. The presentation will highlight how sexual promiscuity or fathomless female sexual craving is portrayed through figurative and grammatical language, which objectifies the female characters but at the same time enables them to be playful with the male characters, and thus motivates them to become more powerful than the males. Finally. the presentation will focus on language or narrative as an act of survival from the perspectives of the female characters, which is most evident in the case of Scheherazade who saved not only her life but also lives of countless maidens by her mesmerizing storytelling talent.

Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929–1939)

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Steven Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Way

Jean Rhys published four novels which have female protagonists who all drink at levels beyond those regarded as socially acceptable: Quartet (1929), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939). These four novels present the reader with a complex of self, consciousness, and modernity, inflected by an argument that women are forced to live differently in the world from men, and therefore experience and understand the world differently from men. One of the major achievements of the novels is the way in which they render the various states of consciousness of the female protagonist in the modern capitalist world, and this chapter considers the way in which Rhys integrates questions of gender, consciousness, modernity, alcohol and the self. Rhys’s protagonists choose their orientations as a way to define their selves and to define what is true in and about the world they inhabit. The modernist focus on alcoholic consciousness ensures a form of self-validation against a patriarchal and increasingly rationalistic society. This chapter also considers Rhys’s presentation of consciousness alongside our contemporary understanding.

Conclusion

Divested ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Ken-Hou Lin ◽  
Megan Tobias Neely
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Just World ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
World Hypothesis

This concluding chapter uses the example of a 1965 study by social psychologist Melvin Lerner and another later study he conducted with Carolyn Simmons to introduce the thesis of this book. These experiments lead to the Just World Hypothesis. In this, Lerner argued that, to gain a basic sense of control, people needed to believe that the world (or at least the environment relevant to themselves) is fundamentally just. The central thesis of this book is not quite as clear-cut as that, rather it has been that the rise of finance is a fundamental cause of the growing economic inequality in the United States. This concluding chapter goes on to expand on that thesis. Finally, it looks beyond the United States and to the future.

Fourth Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-114
Author(s):  
Nikhil Govind
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Rural Childhood

The fourth chapter stays within this older tradition. Saratchandra Chatterjee’s Srikanta is to many the canonical Indian novel—it too is a bildung, following the protagonist from a wayward rural childhood into adulthood via many quests for livelihood and love. The protagonist Srikanta is far removed from a typical bourgeois clerical life. His life is often made via several fascinating female protagonists who educate him into the joys of non-conformity and courage. The chapter also includes a discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s Garden—though less appreciated, the Garden is a fine meditation on illness and love. Unlike the infinitely mobile characters in Srikanta (male and female), here the ill female protagonist watches the world unfold in front of her (including her husband’s interest in another woman) even as she lies pinned to a bed.

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