Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
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Human World in the Eye of Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor andArchibald Lampman
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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…
The Emergence of a Dalit Progressive Thinker in TheUntouchable Story
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…
The Poetic World of Sujata Bhatt
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…
“Reclaiming the Past”: Decolonization in the Early Novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
“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…
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