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Item The Alienation and Manipulation of Geisha in Cultural Structures of Japan with Special Reference to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha(The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2017) Thakur, Smiriti; Saini, AlpnaArthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha is an account of Geisha's life; a life of struggle, and surrounded by various artistic practices where Geisha have no time for themselves. Their life seems glamorous and exciting to the outside world, however, in reality, it is pathetic and an isolated one. The aim of this paper is to focus on the origin of Geisha tradition, which is considered as a cultural heritage of Japan. Simultaneously, the paper throws light on various issues such as the role of tradition, culture, history, economy, and prostitution which contribute to the marginalisation of Geisha in personal as well as social arenas. The paper also deals with the reasons which blur the distinction between Geisha tradition and prostitution. To facilitate the interpretation of Geisha tradition, cultural construction of gender roles has been taken into accountItem Re-Vision of Myths In Post-Colonial Indian English Drama As An Avenue For The Empowerment Of Women(Public Knowledge Project, 2018) Chandel, Priyanka; Saini, AlpnaLiterature is one of the devices of articulating culture whereby culture gets recognised through the adaptation of myths. The revision of myths has received unparalleled recognition as a discourse through which identity and relations of power are constructed and negotiated. Myth has been an innate and pivotal part of culture since antiquity. The reliability on ancient myths has been decisive to the level that the progress of a culture in a certain age could be amply sketched through the interpretations of myths. The postcolonial studies share a concern with the creation of novel and more empowering subjectivities for the women who have traditionally been casted as subaltern. The conformist narrative styles are too firm to challenge structural patterns. Thus the revision of myths is an endeavor to annihilate the misrepresentation of female subjectivity in myths. It also helps to offer fresh connotations to the myths, the meanings of which are shared by the society. Two of the most prominent post-colonial dramatists Girish Karnad, Chandrashekhar Kambar and Arun Mukherjee in their respective plays Yayati, Siri Sampige and Mareech, the Legend have succeeded in demystifying the feminine mystique created in the myths which distorted the concept ofthe Indian woman as an individual. These plays outline the course of the construction of female subjectivity which has continued right from the beginning of time.Item Screening the White Women's Dilemma in Colonial India New Historicist Study of A Passage to India (1985), and Heat and Dust (1982)(Galaxy, 2017) Singh, Jagdish; Saini, AlpnaThe events of the past can be accessed through different kinds of mediums such as written historic texts, the government records, the other sources like socio-cultural traditions, the oral sagas etc. But a new trend has become prominent from past few years that is representing history through films. So the events form history of any nation can be screened through the medium of films. In case of India, the films based on colonial era, represent the various kinds of colonial-colonised relations, socio-cultural interactions on both sides. The present study centers on the role of race and gender in relation to colonial politics. The present paper studies the phenomenon of screening the dilemma of white women during the colonial era in the history of India. The study examines the selected films from New Historicist perspective.Item Bloodless Violence(2011) Saini, AlpnaItem Book Review of Seven Plays on Sikh History(2011) Saini, AlpnaItem Translated Poems of Harbhajan Hundal(Sahitya Akademi, 2013) Saini, AlpnaItem The Volition of Religion in the Devadasi Tradition with Special Reference to Amita Kanekar’s A Spoke in the Wheel(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR), 2015) Thakur, Smriti; Saini, AlpnaItem Subaltern Categories in Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala(Shanti Prakashan,, 2012) Saini, AlpnaItem The Comic and the Surreal: an Analysis of Death and Destruction in Satish Alekar’s The Terrorist and Mahesh Dattani’s Brief Candle(Atlantic Publishers., 2013) Saini, Alpna
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