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Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
ISSN 2349-8064 · Boibhashik · 205 artikel di indeks
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Bollywood, Digitality, and Post-Truth
The post-truth era employs a politics of polarization that extends beyond news and social media into cultural mediums, particularly commercial cinema. This paper explores how in recent years, Bollywood, which can be categorised as mainstream Hindi language cinema, has increasingly functioned as a…
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Orwellian Politics for the Age of Algorithms
Artificial intelligence dominates contemporary human existence by aligning with human requirements. Its exceptional speed and operational efficiency have already impressed mankind enough. Yet, alongside its promise, AI is construed as a locus of threat. AI is feared for spreading false or…
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A Review of Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art
Symbiosis is not only a common phenomenon among various organisms in nature, but also frequently observed in the humanities and academic circles. What we now refer to as “interdisciplinarity” is essentially a symbiotic relationship among different disciplines. Confronted with this “fact”, we should…
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A Review of Theorizing the Superhero: Performativity and Politics by Aditya Misra
In their introduction to What is a Superhero? (2013), Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan ventured into the question: “what is a superhero?” and, while indecisively renouncing the enigmatic quality of the question surprisingly remarks: “Maybe; maybe not” (Rosenberg and Coogan 20). In the…
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Corpses
The rays of the sinking sun were sliding on the river. From the depths of the water, a light was trying to break out. A hush had fallen all over the place. Only the barking sound of dogs would occasionally break the layers of silence; crack them open and then close in like black moss. In the…
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Representing Truths:
Truths are always produced and socially circulated—they do not have any intrinsic social or ethical values in themselves! That became the moral of postmodern thought by the end of the twentieth century. Such social dilemmas and erosion of the grounds of thinking—the parameters of making sense of…
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Representation and Digital Culture:
In the present times, digital culture is a double-edged sword. The internet, one of the prime components of digital culture, acts as a platform for both the percolation and questioning of dominant ideology. Such digital negotiations play out through a variety of channels, most notably the meme…
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Protest Paradigm and Digital Platform:
Protests are important political events with a major impact on society and may usher in important social changes. Studies suggest that for a protest to succeed, it often relies heavily on its media coverage. This paper identifies how the social media handles of Indian news media adhere to this…
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Digital Governmentality and the Algorithmic State:
This paper examines the rise of digital governmentality as a dominant mode of governance in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), with a comparative focus on India and China. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality and its contemporary elaborations, the study attempts to explore…
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Truth Unravelled:
In an era increasingly defined by contested truths and subjective realities, the concept of epistemological certainty has come under intense scrutiny. This paper examines the crisis of truth through the lens of unreliable narration in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo…
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‘The Poetics of Water’:
This paper explores the role of water in Litanies of Dutch Battery through a postcolonial lens, arguing that water serves as a historical text where identities emerge through trans-oceanic encounters. Set in the fictional island of Dutch Battery, inspired by Fort Kochi, the novel reflects the…
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Tracing Hydrofeminism and Hydromentality in select Bengali Dalit Women’s Short Stories
This article applies the theoretical frameworks of Hydrofeminism, as articulated by Astrida Neimanis, and Hydromentality to five selected short stories: Ranu Biswas’ “Dhopadanga Beel” (1994), Kalyani Thakur Charal’s “How Many Scores Make a Thousand?” (2000), and Manju Bala’s “The Household Special”…
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Cézanne
Borders and movements bring melancholia, nostalgia and a sense of uprootedness as much as the freedom to connect and form new kinds of bonds that are transnational in nature. Is it possible for pain and alienation to travel? Is it possible for the loners and vagabonds – the sexually, politically…
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“The fear of water”:
The association of Water as a symbol of purity with the identity politics of the Dalits has often relegated their position to that of impure and untouchable. The tapestry of the Hindu religious texts has perceived water as a sacred entity, protected from the contamination of the ‘untouchables.’ The…
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Indigenous Water World and Politics of Resurgence in Select Works of Rebecca Belmore
The Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore’s body of work is a testament to the resistance movements that the Indigenous people of the Turtle Island have been carrying out against the settler-Canadians for decades. She refers to her performances as acts of embodied resistance where…
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Eco-Horror, Abjection, and the Uncanny Presence of Water in "Floating Water"
Japanese horror often scrutinizes the dichotomy between modernity and nature, and water is an emblematic, elemental power over which human beings struggle to maintain command. The overwhelming majority of Japanese horror films and fiction describe technology as a frail barrier between mankind and…
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The Birth of the Anthropocene
This book provides a thorough analysis of the concept of the Anthropocene, examining its scientific foundations, historical roots, cultural implications, socio-political dimensions and conceptual opponents who refuse to acknowledge the human impact on the atmosphere of Earth as “an epoch-level…
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Subversion of the Obvious and the Dominant: Blue Humanities, Conservation, and Feminine Agency in Mrs Caliban and The Shape of Water
The article attempts to capture and redefine the intersection of Blue Humanities, conservation of the marine ecology and the woman as agency in reestablishing through requestioning, the masculinist projects of manipulating the environment around us. This stance is adopted and examined through the…
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Exploring the ‘Everyday’ in Colin Wilson’s The Black Room and The Personality Surgeon
This paper attempts to explore and analyse the idea of ‘Everyday consciousness’ in Colin Wilson’s two fictional works, The Black Room and The Personality Surgeon from the perspective of the concept of ‘natural attitude’ put forth by Edmund Husserl. As psycho-physical and spatio- temporal beings, we…
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A Study of Everyday Aesthetics and (De)Alienation in Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities
This article is a study of Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1974) where it attempts to explore the aestheticization of everyday images that Wenders weaves into the cinematic narrative of the film. The article examines how the aestheticization renders the everyday as a site of psycho-political…