Uncertainty of Psychological and Spatial Identity: A Study on the Novel of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine”

Daniel Jack

doi:10.24113/ijohmn.v2i4.68

Uncertainty of Psychological and Spatial Identity: A Study on the Novel of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine”

IJOHMN ◽

10.24113/ijohmn.v2i4.68 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Daniel Jack

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Birth Place ◽

Spatial Identity

This review assess Dr. Rajib Bhaumik’s research on diasporic writer Bharati Mukherjee’s wife and Jasmine. Diaspora refers to those people who live in other countries leaving their birth place and their writings still revolves around their homeland. The diasporic mood refers to the transcultural restlessness of the writers. The transcultural narratives possess a serious challenge to the cultural stability of the metropolitan centers.

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Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks

Global Regional Review ◽

10.31703/grr.2021(vi-i).24 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol VI (I) ◽

pp. 223-229

Author(s):

Fasih ur Rehman ◽

Gohar Munir Mukhi ◽

Qamar Sumaira

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Space And Place ◽

The Novel ◽

Multiple Factors ◽

Spatial Identity

The present study aims to revisit Native American woman's experience of out of placeness due to her pregnancy in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. The study argues that the protagonist experiences spatial identity crisis within the socio-spatial paradigms. The present work reread the novel through the theoretical formulations of Tim Cresswell and Iris Marian Young. The notion of out of placeness is constituted upon the premise that an individual's failure to develop belongingness to a particular space and place is caused by multiple factors. Pregnancy, as Young asserts, destabilizes an individual's idea of a 'subject'. With these theoretical underpinnings, that study maintains that the protagonist of the novel experiences out of placeness and develops a fractured spatial identity in the novel.

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“Trench Town Rock”: Reggae Music, Landscape Inscription, and the Making of Place in Kingston, Jamaica

Urban Studies Research ◽

10.1155/2012/585160 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Kevon Rhiney ◽

Romain Cruse

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

The Other ◽

Gang Violence ◽

City Community ◽

Birth Place ◽

Other Hand ◽

Conscious Effort ◽

Marcus Garvey ◽

Spatial Identity

This paper examines place inscriptions in Trench Town, Jamaica, and explores the ways these are used to reinforce, shape, or challenge dominant images of this inner-city community. On one hand, Trench Town is like many of its neighbouring communities, characterised by high levels of poverty, unemployment, political and gang violence, derelict buildings, and overcrowded homes. On the other hand, Trench Town is iconic and unique as it is recognised worldwide for being the birth place of reggae music and home to a number of well-known reggae artists including reggae superstar Bob Marley. Today, Trench Town’s landscape is filled with inscriptions reminiscent of its rich cultural past. Linked to this is a conscious effort by its residents to identify themselves with reggae music and to recapture and sustain the positive legacies that have made the community popular. This is manifested in the numerous murals, statues, and graffiti seen throughout the community evoking past images of reggae music icons such as Marley and Tosh alongside renowned black leaders such as Marcus Garvey. These inscriptions are conceived as texts and are seen as part of a broader discourse on issues relating to urban spatial identity, commoditisation, exclusion, struggle, resistance, and change.

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(Mis)representation of Nepali Culture in The Guru of Love

The Outlook: Journal of English Studies ◽

10.3126/ojes.v11i0.36312 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Bhanu Bhakta Sharma Kandel

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Gender Issues ◽

The Novel ◽

Sexual Relation ◽

Birth Place ◽

The People ◽

And Gender ◽

Mind Set ◽

Western Perspective

Samrat Upadhyay’s The Guru of Love has (mis)represented Nepali culture, society and thoughts from Western perspective. The writer has applied Western standards of life to represent Orient culture and society where he seems to have misguided somewhere. He has mentioned in the novel that Easterners have suffered from inferior thoughts and practices, the society has slavish mind-set regarding gender issues and sexual psychology, the society is poverty-stricken and it is full of the people with corrupt mind. The novel explains that females have been victimized from males’ domination practicing sexual violence, harassment and gender discrimination and dominance. Upadhayay has discussed about his birth place, cultures, society, language, religion, relatives, illicit sexual relation and political chaos which has helped to create a ‘discourse’ about Nepali society. The article argues how the novelist has (mis) represented the Nepai culture by discussing socio-cultural practices and it analyzes how it has tried to serve the palate of the Western readership.

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