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ISSN 2582-0400 · Supriyo Chakraborty, Penprints Publication · 116 articles in the index
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Reviewing Heart Lamp from the Lens of Women’s Writing
Banu Mushtaq has ensured the diversity of experiences by portraying the stories of women belonging to various age groups, backgrounds, and social realities. She has poignantly portrayed the female experiences by representing their voice herself as a woman.It can be seen as one of the best examples…
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Visualizing Migrant Trauma: A Lacanian Reading of The Goat Life
Adaptations of literature into films generally alter the textual narratives into visual form, catering to the needs of varied audiences. Several movies have been seen by people around the globe that have similarities, and they depict the emotions of the literary works by mirroring the feelings…
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Subaltern Archive and the Translator’s Responsibility: Ethical Negotiation in the Representation of Bhojpuri Folk
Bhojpuri is widely spoken on the land of western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh. The language also has a significant hold amongst the global diaspora communities as a second language in Nepal, Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname and others, yet has been systematically marginalized by the mainstream literary…
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Folk Culture, Heritage and Community in Patachitra Village Naya
This paper is all about the Bengali folk community, culture, and heritage of Naya in Paschim Medinipur. The village offers the folk culture in the forms of visual painting and oral singing. This paper aims at projecting how the patua preserve the document of Bengali culture, language and identity…
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Translation as Intellectual and Cultural Mediation in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Khasi Hills
The Khasis are one of the indigenous tribes of Meghalaya. The Khasi society prior to the colonial encounter was an oral society. They recorded events and captured the essence of their ideas by weaving them into stories. This gradually changed with the arrival of the missionaries in the Khasi hills…
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Carolin Brackets and Breakdowns: The Writerly Paradox of Mental Illness in Shaheen Bhatt’s I’ve Never Been (Un)Happier
Shaheen Bhatt’s I’ve Never Been (Un)Happier(2019) announces its formal project in a single typographical gesture. It is the parenthetical un suspended within its title, destabilising meaning in both directions simultaneously. This paper argues that this stylistic paradox is the governing formal…
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Translation, Memory, and Dalit Feminist Aesthetics in Bama’sKarukku and Baby Kamble’sThe Prisons We Broke
This paper examines the politics of translation, memory, and Dalit feminist aesthetics in Bama’s Karukku and Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke. Originally composed in Tamil and Marathi respectively, both texts have achieved national and international visibility through English translation…
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Beyond Victimhood: Caste, Gender, and the Subversion of Cozy Detective Fiction in Tarquin Hall’s the Case of the Love Commandos
This article examines the manner in which the British writer Tarquin Hall represents major Indian female in his detective novel The Case of the Love Commandos, drawing upon the critical lenses of postcolonial feminism and intersectionality. While colonial and nationalist discourses have often…
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Endogamy and the Human Body: Honour Killing as Social Discipline in Girish Karnad’s Tale Danda, Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan, and Imayam’s Pethavan: The Begetter
This paper undertakes a comparative literary-sociological study of caste pride killing (honour killing) as an instrument of caste discipline in three major South Asian literary texts: Girish Karnad’s historical play Tale Danda, Vijay Tendulkar’s social drama Kanyadaan, and Imayam’s novella…
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“Folklore and the Anthropocene”: A Review of The Way to Rainy Mountain, by Scott Momaday
Native American folklore has dwelt on the communal self, where Indigenous memoirs visibly depict how individual and communal histories are unavoidably correlated. The voices of myth, history and memory in each chapter are seamlessly interwoven, transforming this oral tradition into a rich written…
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The Banter and the Bond: A Tapestry of Tender Tales in Din about Chins by Santosh Bakaya
Santosh Bakaya’s Din about Chins- Vignettes about Mother Daughter is a kaleidoscope of mother-daughter memories—each anecdote a fleck of colour on the tapestry of time, textured with tenderness, tickled by laughter, and tethered to truth. Rooted in the vibrant soil of Indian domestic life yet…
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Storied Lands and Silenced Voices: Reading Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill through the lens of Terristory
Indigenous epistemologies, shaped by deep, reciprocal relationships with the land, have historically been marginalised under colonial regimes, a pattern that persists in many post-colonial contexts. In Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India, the exclusion of the local Idu Mishmi community from…
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Nature Narratives in Northeast Indian Literature: Eco-Discourse and Cultural Perspectives
This paper examines how recent literary texts from Northeast India function as Eco-discourses by integrating ecological themes with cultural worldview and resistance to dominant paradigms. Focusing on Temsula Ao (Nagaland), Mamang Dai (Arunachal Pradesh), Easterine Kire (Nagaland), and Dhruba…
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Disclosing the Double Discourse of Terror and Tradition of the North-East: A Selective study of Robin S. Ngangom’s Poetry
Writing poetry in English from North-East India is relatively a new literature which provides an insight into a region that has a different culture zone in comparison to mainland India. The area is full of multi-ethnic people with multi-layered cultures and customs, trends and traditions, myths and…
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Decoding the Unthinkable: Cultural Dynamics and Mythical Representations of Nature in Verrier Elwin’s Select Tribal Folklores
The present paper aims to elucidate the representation of nature and climate, as well as the cultural and mythical dynamics, concerning verrier Elvin’s tribal folklore. In a personal attempt to understand such folklore in the present context, it is established that they are competent in suggesting…
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Wounded earth; Wounded bodies: Submerged Knowledge and Feminist Resistance in Oceanic Spaces
This paper examines the convergence of ecofeminist thought and the Blue Humanities to explore how women’s bodies and marine environments are not only commodified under patriarchal and capitalist systems but also subjected to epistemic erasure and environmental dispossession. Drawing on the work of…
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Aligning Women with Nature: An Ecofeminist Critique of Tagore’s Three Women
Women and Nature constitute two important discourses of Ecocriticism. The modernising projects of contemporary times shaped by the ethics of development and material progress are causing environmental degradation. The rhetoric of development is opening new frontiers of oppression on the basis of…
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Industrial revolution as the harbinger of climate crisis – The Anthropocene epoch in Edasseri Govindan Nair’s “Kuttipuram Palam”
This article examines the role industrial revolution plays in the epoch of Anthropocene by analysing the technological, cultural and geological counterparts by grafting the future as past memories in poetic form. It investigates the way the poem, “Kuttipuram Palam” (Kuttipuram Bridge) by Edasseri…
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Animating the Land: Native American Spirituality, Identity and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Contemporary Literature
This paper explores the intricate relationship between Native American identity and the land, emphasising the spiritual, cultural and communal dimensions of this bond. Rooted in Indigenous cosmologies that view land, animals, plants and spirits as interconnected components of a shared identity, the…
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Book Review of The D’Costa Family novel
Rochelle Potkar is a prolific writer, and The D’Costa Family is her debut novel, with three more in the pipeline. Drawing on her experience as a scriptwriter for films, Rochelle has produced a highly readable novel a rambunctious, Bollywood-style comedy with dark undercurrents. The two families…