The existential values have always been questioned until a struggle is formulated and identical venture is not achieved. Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations. Meanwhile, all the relations including human, historical, social or all…
“The novelist is haunted by a sense of the past”, says Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in “The AfricanWriter and his Past” (Heywood ed., 1971). This paper explores tentative points ofconvergence and contrast between the early novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’oi and ChinuaAchebe, on the basis of their treatment of the “past”, their attitude to language and…
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…
India’ has been the sole interest for the Indian diaspora and Gita Mehta is one of them. She begins with Karma Cola, lingers over A River Sutra and concludes in Snakes and Ladders. The present paper seeks to examine Gita Mehta’s endeavour to present her native place India in ‘glacial progress towards liberation; more than…
This paper has two parts. The first part seeks to briefly theorise the notion of selfhood in the light of theories propounded by Jung, Maslow, Kohut and others alongside working out its poststructuralist and postmodern implication. The second part of the paper will deal with analysis of Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit…
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…
The Indian untouchables form a thick crust of faceless and nameless human anthill which has no singer of their own agonies. In social arena, it is the high caste Hindu reformers who weep for them… But what is pitiable is the absence of any literary efforts by the untouchables to stimulate and inspire a genuine…
Theory today seems to have absolved colonialism of its manifold sins, its recorded atrocities on the colonized. For if one takes a broad view of history, one witnesses civilizations clashing, often with a motive of conquest, sometimes intent on maneuvering themselves into positions of hegemonic control over others. The clash of civilizations that Samuel Huntington…
In Nigeria, Yoruba population theatre groups have always served as the most forthrightrepresentation of anti-establishment campaign. Given the nature of social and political contextfrom which Wole Soyinka’s drama emerges, there is in it a similar acceptance of drama as a vitalmeasure of socio-political indictment. Soyinka is acutely sensitive to the changes in Nigerian political-situation, especially…
Indian women’s poetry in English, still a marginalized area of critical study, is slowlygaining ground as a significant and identifiable area of research. The woman writer’sreconstruction of life through the various literary forms and modes emphasizes the validity ofBeheroze Shroff’s statement: “The time has come for women to stop seeing through men’seyes and language–we have…
