Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
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Dilemma of Immigrants in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Today we live in a world characterized by global inequality which drives men and women from the soil that gave them birth. Hence, the world is shaping into a global village and diasporic writings have gained momentum. All those writers who have migrated from their homeland, and have settled down in distant corners of the…
Human World in the Eye of Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor andArchibald Lampman
The paper aims at to prove that how two poets belonging to two different places,languages have defined their particular societies. The methodology used in this paper isComparative one. Under the canvass of comparative literature I have taken the social themesof the two poets Archibald Lampman and Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor. Archibald Lampman isa Canadian poet writing…
The Bruised Heart of Africa: Devil on the Cross
Set against the backdrop of postcolonial era in Kenya, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross portrays irony at its crest – with the devil on the cross instead of Jesus. Written entirely in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Gikuyu language after he stated that he would no longer put pen to paper in English, the tome…
Postmodernism: The Limits of Questioning
For the postmodern thinkers, the change from the Modern to the Postmodern occurssomewhere between 1960 and 1970. This is certainly an obvious historical perspective topresent the postmodern condition. Thus, the postmodern is also a subject to change in theongoing flux of history. The leftist approach looks at the postmodern as a historical condition.It is for…
Vedic and Oriental Influences in Ted Hughes’ Poems
The present article aims to explore Ted Hughes‘ interest in Orient and Vedic literature, and how he incorporates their visions in his poetry. The traces of these visions show his concern for culturally deprived science- driven modern western man .His poetic imagination acquires transformational potential with the help of Oriental and Vedic flashes. Without sermonizing,…
Interrogating the Meta-narrative of Religion: The FictionalOeuvre of Ngugi wa Thiong’o
This Paper attempts a critical reading of Christianity in colonial times as captured in the early novels from Kenya. We specifically refer to Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child (1964), The River Between (1965), and A Grain of Wheat (1967) to show the author’s disquiet with Christianity as a cog in the wheel of colonialism. We focus…
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