scholarly journals Quest and Assessment for Self-Identity in the Select Novel of Arun Joshi

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-86
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Key Factor

Literature is one among the fine arts like painting, sculpture, and music which express emotions, feelings, humour, and happiness using language as a medium of communication through different sorts of the genre like prose, poetry, drama, and novel. It reflects the items that happen within society and life. It deals with human being’s personal experience, nature, war, culture, imagination, history, etc. Indian English literature is that the outcome of the works written by the Indian author who writes in English. In India, there are numerous languages and different literatures. Arun Joshi deals with a very difficult situation of a modern man and is sensitively alive to the various dimensions of tortures, exerted by the difficult character and demands of the society in which same age man is destined to live. The heroes of his novels are helpless outsiders and the harsh strangers. The consciousness of man’s rootlessness and new feeling and the major search for a meaningful self is the key factor of Joshi’s novels.

scholarly journals Deplorable Condition of Women and Patriarchal Domination in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Anukala K.
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Bapsi Sidhwa ◽  
Condition Of Women

Parsi writers have contributed a lot to Indian English Literature. The Indian Parsi novelists express their feelings in the form of art. The novelists reflect the psychological dilemma of the minority community and its identity crisis through their works. Being a Parsi writer, Bapsi Sidhwa sees a kind of mental migration when she hybrids from her native land, and pours her feelings and thoughts in to her novels. She is known for her exploration of women’s inner psyche who aspire to live in modernity, inept to break traditional quality intrinsic in them. Most of her writings contain a pinch of migration and male dominance taste when one chews them. The expatriate writers face multi-cultural situation which merges with their personal anguish due to prejudice. They project the cultural confusion and confrontation of a multi-racial society. The quest for identity, aspiration for belongingness and love for native land is found as a part of non-erasable conscious in all expatriate writers. This paper reveals the socio-cultural background and the authoritative patriarchal Pakistani society in the novel The Pakistani Bride The novel portrays how the institution of marriage and patriarchy deplores and represses an orphaned girl’s self-identity. It also pinpoints the problems of a little girl Zaitoon as an alien in an alien land or culture. It enforces deportation as a pathway to sculpt for belongingness of her ‘self’. At the end, Zaitoon succeeds by rejecting the alien culture and tradition.

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.  

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.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI MAKNA RELIGIUSITAS/SPIRITUALITAS PADA INDIVIDU DEWASA MUDA MELALUI PHOTOVOICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Anita Novianty ◽  
Evans Garey
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Older People ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Self Identity

Early adulthood was indicated by exploring self-identity, including re-questioning the religion belief that was taught by nuclear family since childhood. Most of young adult perceived themselves or by older people as less religious, but spiritual. This study aims to understand the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from a) perspective of their own religion; b) perspective of other religion; and c) their religious experience. Photovoice was applied in this study with various background of participant’s religion including Moslem, Christian, Catholic, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Kong Hu Cu, which selected by snowball sampling. The result showed worship place and activities were mostly chosen as representation of the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from their own religion perspective as well as other religion. Whereas, moment in worship activity and personal experience where they can get through of difficult or unfortunate situation were representation of their religious/spiritual experience. From this study, we can conclude that the institutionalized religion is still play important role in young adult’s spiritual/religious life.

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 Investigating the Influence of Stereotype in Intercultural Communication Towards English Literature Students of Universitas Muslim Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Andi Hudriati ◽  
Muli Umiaty Noer ◽  
Naurah Nadifah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Purposive Sampling

This study's objectives explored two prominent cases: (1) the forms of stereotype in Literature Faculty and (2) how the influence of stereotype in intercultural communication toward the students of Literature Faculty. This study applied qualitative research, which explored the stereotype and intercultural communication toward Literature Faculty students. The researcher applied purposive sampling to gain data. There were 15 students participated as the participant, and the data were obtained through interviews. This study shows that stereotypes in Literature Faculty were stereotypes towards Makassar Ethnicity (Rudely) and stereotypes towards Buginese (Uang Panaik it is too expensive). Even though the students learned many negative stereotypes toward Makassarese and Buginese, most students were not affected by these negative stereotypes. The students chose to trust personal experience and establish effective communication with Makassarese and Buginese, which eventually eliminated negative stereotypes towards the Makassarese and Buginese groups.

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