Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
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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…
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…
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…
Representation of Women in Shama Futehally’s Tara Lane
Literature as discipline necessarily involves representation, and the twentieth century has witnessed a spurt of new literatures. This new trend questions the elitism and exclusiveness of literature so as to represent the voice of the formerly oppressed ‘Other.’ The inaudible and marginalized voice is brought to the forefront so that the earlier erasure and deliberate…
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…
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…
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