Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
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Raewyn Alexander’s Ironic Vision in Fat
A poet, publisher, editor, novelist, and actor, Raewyn Alexander, with the publication of her first novel Fat (1996)1 , makes a path breaking entry into New Zealand’s literary world of fiction. With her emerges a new paradigm of women’s writing which is not anti-male, but probably indirectly pities men. Prior to her, no novelist has…
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…
Popular and Feminist: Swati Kaushal’s Detective Fiction
Conceptualizing a paper on popular fiction, especially detective fiction, is a daunting task. As Ken Gelder1 has pointed out, popular fiction is usually considered as “capitalism’s most perfect literary form” (Gelder, 35) and therefore, is generally perceived as an “industrial” product, manufactured for unthinking mass consumption, as against literary works which, it is believed, usually…
Gender Paradigms: A Post- Feminist Reading of CarylChurchill’s Top Girls
The study focuses on Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls from a post feminist perspective. The play was a reaction against policies of the first female prime minister of England Ms. Margaret Thatcher. Marlene in the play represents Ms. Margaret Thatcher and she is a great admirer of Thatcherism. The economic policies carried out the first…
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,…
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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