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    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, Alpna
    Arthur 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 account
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    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, Alpna
    The 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.