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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Interrogating the Meta-narrative of Religion: The FictionalOeuvre of Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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…
“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…
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 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…
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