Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
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Theorising Selfhood: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s
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…
Wole Soyinka: Artist as a Social Activist
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…
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…
Ontological Exploration of Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea
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 Impossibility of Insular Cultures
The Homo sapiens as you and I represent today, is a young species. We may havesurvived a difficult challenge…that of survival. One reason for this successful survivalagainst all odds of the law of jungle was the social evolution of the human being. Man learntto use coordinated ways of cooperation as modus operandi for long-term continuance….
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,…
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