Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Critiquing Caste through Performance
A Reading of Datta Bhagat’s Dalit Play Routes and Escape Routes
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The paper through a reading of one of the most important Dalit playwrights Datta Bhagat’s seminal Dalit play Routes and Escape Routes...
Post-Memory and Dispossession
The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
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Anglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades....
A Transnational Feminist Evaluation of the Efficacy of Topless Protest in Tunisia
Femen’s International Jihad Versus Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité
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Femen is a bare-breasted feminist group that originated in Ukraine and specializes in topless protests. This article evaluates Femen’s...
Suspended Temporality: A Necropolitical Reading of Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World
AbstractThis article examines Susan Abulhawa’s novel Against the Loveless World within the framework of necropolitics and temporal studies,...
Byomkesh Bakshi’s Calcutta
Crime and Detection in Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's The Menagerie (1954)
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Like the social novel in Bengal, Detective literature, a popular branch of fiction amongst the burgeoning middle classes, originated with the...
Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand in Aboulela’s River Spirit
AbstractIn Leeds City Art Gallery, visitors can see George William Joy’s painting General Gordon’s Last Stand (1893). The painting, which...