Published: 2024-03-19

Critiquing Caste through Performance

A Reading of Datta Bhagat’s Dalit Play Routes and Escape Routes

Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar
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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...

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Post-Memory and Dispossession

The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return

Debajyoti Biswas
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Anglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades....

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A Transnational Feminist Evaluation of the Efficacy of Topless Protest in Tunisia

Femen’s International Jihad Versus Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité

Jyhene Kebsi
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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...

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Suspended Temporality: A Necropolitical Reading of Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World

Ali Salami
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This article examines Susan Abulhawa’s novel Against the Loveless World within the framework of necropolitics and temporal studies,...

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Byomkesh Bakshi’s Calcutta

Crime and Detection in Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's The Menagerie (1954)

Debjani Sengupta
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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...

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Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand in Aboulela’s River Spirit

Ahmed Shalabi, Yousef Abu Amrieh
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In Leeds City Art Gallery, visitors can see George William Joy’s painting General Gordon’s Last Stand (1893). The painting, which...

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