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…
Yashpal’s Fiction: A Reflection of his Life as a Social and Political Activist
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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,…
Popular and Feminist: Swati Kaushal’s Detective Fiction
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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…
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…
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