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Language and Power: A Foucauldian Reading of Lois Lowry’s The Giver
(Barloni Books, 2018)Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1992) delineates a nightmarish utilitarian state where human beings are produced through artificial insemination for the optimal service of the state. The current paper explores how reality is ... -
The Legacy of the Empire: A New Historicist Study of the Colonial and Postcolonial Agenda in Selected Indian and Western Cinema
(Central University of Punjab, 2020)The term Empire refers to an expansion of territory by including other countries or other continents under the rule of a powerful state. The concept of Empire Cinema is focused on the agenda of using some specific kind of ... -
Making sense of cancer through autobiography: suffering, stigma, and regeneration in Lance Armstrong's It's not about the bike
(Routledge, 2017)The present paper through a discussion of the therapeutic value of autobiographical narratives of disease seeks to emphasize the importance of Lance Armstrong?s autobiography, showing how someone after once having physically ... -
Manipulation of Mechanisms of Surveilance and Control: A Critical Analysis of Veronica Ruth's Diverget Trilogy
(Sou. Bhagyashri Ramesh Chougule, 2019)Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy depicts a society where surreptitious surveillance is deeply embedded in its social structure. The current paper explores how totalitarian regime employs surveillance and ideology in tandem ... -
Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out: An Exploration of Voyeurism
(The IIS University - Journal of Arts, 2014) -
Mythico-patriarchal constructiuon of a women in githa hariharan's the thousand faces of night and mahasweta devi's stories draupadi and breast-giver
(Central University of Punjab, 2013)The present research offers a comparative study of Githa Hariharan's novel The Thousand Faces of Night and Mahasweta Devi's stories ''Draupadi'' and ''Breastgiver''. The focus of the analysis will be on the interpretative ... -
Negotiating Boundaries: A Study of Bushra Ejaz’s Writings. Chandigarh
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NEGOTIATING IDENTITY IN POSTCOLONIAL SPACE: A CRITICAL STUDY OF SELECTED SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORIC FICTION
(Central University of Punjab, 2019)Delineating identity is a very complex phenomenon because identity has many factors contributing to its development that differ from scenario to scenario. Identities are part of history in which they evolve and are subject ... -
Negotiating the Ethical Crisis: A View of Contemporary Indian Drama
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Negotiations between History and Fiction: New Historicist Readings of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
(Central University of Punjab, 2018)This thesis is an attempt to negotiate between history and fiction with regard to new historicist readings of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? It delves, ... -
Orientalising the Postcolonial Nation-State: A Study of The Inheritance of Loss and Half a Life
(Central University of Punjab, 2012)In the postcolonial analysis, the term nation-state has been critiqued mainly because the postcolonial nation states experience multiple exclusions and unequal power distribution. This feeling of marginalisation and exclusion ... -
The Patriarchal Perspectives on Female Subjectivities in the Selected Plays of Atamjit and Mahesh Elkunchwar
(Central University of Punjab, 2019)The present research is aimed at critically exploring the selected Marathi and Punjabi plays namely Pooran, Farash Vich Uggya Rukh, Main Tan Ik Sarangi Han by Atamjit and Old Stone Mansion, Garbo and Sonata by Mahesh ... -
Portrayal of diaspora in english and vernacular fiction: A study of the namesake and hashiye
(Central University of Punjab, 2012)Diaspora is a complex phenomenon which has important economic, political, social, and religious dimensions. It can be voluntary or forcible movement of people from their native land into new regions. Diasporic discourses ... -
Psycho-Sexual Construction of the Subjects in Sudhir Kakar’s The Ascetic of Desire
(David Publishing Company, 2015)