Journal of the English Literator Society
type: channel
description: The Journal of the English Literator Society (ISSN 2455-393X) is a peer-reviewed, international, and indexed online publication dedicated to literary and cultural studies. Published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November by Magnus Publishing, the journal adheres to rigorous academic standards while maintaining an open-access model on the World Wide Web. The journal promotes critical literary analysis while examining cultural significance, connecting textual study with socio-historical perspectives. It enriches scholarly discussions on how literature both mirrors and influences cultural identities, traditions, and evolution across regions and eras. Editor in Chief: Dr. L. Santhosh Kumar Established: December 2015 Frequency: Bimonthly
publisher: Magnus Publishing
language: en
publication name: Journal of the English Literator Society
issn: 2455-393X
items: Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender: A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus
items: Fragmented Protagonism: Collective Character Structure in Savi Sharma’s Everyone Has a Story
items: Collective Guilt and Moral Disengagement in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer: A Social, Psychological Interpretation of Cinematic Responsibility
items: Ecosophical Reflections on Human-Animal Affinity in Tagore’s “Subha” and Premchand’s “Two Bullocks”
items: Rewriting Authorship: AI-Generated Literature and the Postmodern Death of the Author
items: Mythical Realms Reimagined: A Study of the Select Works of Rick Riordan
items: Myth, Memory, and Trauma in Nation-Building Narratives
items: From Homosocial Triangle to Queer Relationality: Gender Performativity and Anti-Essentialism in The Song of Achilles
items: Food, Faith, and Maritime Culture: Culinary Traditions of Muslims in Kayalpattinam
items: Teaching Young Readers to Speak Through Silence: Language Anxiety in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
items: Gendered Citizenship, Religious Identity, and Political Structuring: Re-Theorising Feminist Subjectivity in Why I Am a Hindu Woman
items: Contextualizing Transnationalism in Indian English Literature: A Study of A Suitable Boy and The Shadow Lines
items: Healing Through Kinship: Male Friendship and Identity in Easterine Kire's Bitter Wormwood
items: Integrating LSRW Skills in Teaching Self-Introduction: A Task-Based Approach
items: Windows and Mirrors: The Role of Multicultural Narratives in Shaping Empathy in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
items: Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Paradigms in Adolescent Cinema: Implications for Mental Well-Being and Digital Health
items: Changing Revered Spaces of Rural Tamil Nadu in Perumal Murugan’s “The Last Sacrifice” and “Magamuni”: A Spatial Analysis
items: The Role of ChatGPT in Teaching Writing Skills in Language Education
items: Illustration of Jyotish, Astrology, and Shakun Shastra in Maharshi Valmiki’s Shrimad Valmiki Ramayan
items: Recipes of Resistance: Food as Cultural Archive and Postcolonial Identity in South Indian Literature
items: From Kitchen to Community: How Axone Exposes Racism Against Northeast Indians in Urban India
items: Cultural Conflict in Amy Tan's Novels: Chinese Heritage and American Modernity
items: Resistance against Patriarchy and Political Oppression: A Comparative Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits
items: Narrative Refusal: Mahasweta Devi’s Characters Who Refuse Redemption
items: Silence as Counter-Memory: Trauma, Resistance, and Feminist Testimony in Beloved and The Story of Zahra
items: Exploring Miller's Unnamed Revolutionary Leader’s Sacrifice in the Resurrection Blues
items: Voices from Foreign Land: A Study of Select Diaspora Narratives of Rohinton Mistry
items: Nowhere Women: The Double Marginalization of Denotified Tribal Women
items: Children’s Literature in the Digital Era: The Indian Scenario
items: Gender Equality Through the Lens of Patriarchal Literature

Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender: A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus
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description: People of colour face oppression in all areas of human experience. However, social scientists and literary critics often treat the various categories of oppression as mutually exclusive experiences. Such single-axis analysis of oppression misunderstands or ignores the experiences of whole groups, particularly those of women of colour. The paper aims to analyse the interlocking oppressions of race, class, and gender in the lives of marginalised people of colour, and to analyse Venus (1996), a play by Suzan-Lori Parks, through the theoretical framework of Intersectionality. The paper employs a qualitative, interdisciplinary method that combines Feminist theory, Black Feminism, and Critical Race Theory in literary analysis. The key findings establish that an intersectional approach to the study of the lives of women of colour contributes to an in-depth analysis of the interlocking oppressions in terms of sexism, scientific racism, colonial dynamics of imperialism, and also calls for a need for a resurrection of History.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Intersectionality
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subject: Suzan-Lori Parks
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subject: Black Feminism
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subject: Scientific Racism
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creator: Dr. R. Qurshid Begum
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 83
ending page: 92
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18862003

Fragmented Protagonism: Collective Character Structure in Savi Sharma’s Everyone Has a Story
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description: Recent trends in Indian popular fiction reveal a gradual movement away from single-hero narratives toward stories structured around multiple central figures who share narrative attention. In Everyone Has a Story, the progression of events unfolds through four interconnected yet independently sustained character arcs, none of which dominates the textual space. This balanced distribution of narrative focus enables parallel development and creates structural symmetry within the novel. Such an arrangement enhances reader engagement by offering varied points of identification and sustaining momentum through alternating perspectives. The organization of chapters, the proportional presence of dialogue, and the careful transitions between character trajectories collectively contribute to a sense of equilibrium that binds the text together. Rather than privileging individual heroism, the novel advances through shared narrative authority, reflecting a contemporary storytelling tendency within Indian mass-market fiction. By decentralizing protagonism and maintaining structural coherence across multiple arcs, the text demonstrates how collective character design can function as an effective narrative strategy in shaping modern popular narratives.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ensemble Narrative
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subject: Narrative Design
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subject: Popular Indian Fiction
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creator: Thirumoorthi K
creator: R. Shobia
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 72
ending page: 82
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861947

Collective Guilt and Moral Disengagement in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer: A Social, Psychological Interpretation of Cinematic Responsibility
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description: The research deals with Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer (2023) as a cultural space where the film has been thought of as a mediator of historical collective guilt and moral disengagement, as a medium to consider the concepts of collective guilt and moral disengagement through the lens of two social psychological models present in the film Oppenheimer.’ The research paper emphasises the film as a means of dramatising the inner struggles of J. Robert Oppenheimer, while also echoing the negotiation with societies that confront trauma and complicity in the era of mass destruction. This study relies on textual analyses of cinematic practices and discourse analyses of critical reviews and audience reception. For example, it demonstrates how Oppenheimer filmmakers highlight the theme of collective guilt, while also presenting the audience with strategies of moral disengagement and revealing the Janus-faced nature of the media's role as both remembrancers and rationalizers. Therefore, by making the film and previous cultural products create a thematic axis around nuclear anxiety and relating the problems of the film and previous cultural products to current global challenges like climate change and artificial intelligence, the paper explores how the film's strength lies in its ability to reactivate social psychological controversies around innovation, authority, and morality in society. As such, the study will contribute to the emerging field of inquiry in the social sciences and the humanities: media memory studies and cultural trauma studies.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Collective guilt
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subject: Moral disengagement
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subject: Dilemma
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subject: Trauma
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subject: Social Psychology
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creator: Blesslin Femi J
creator: P. Revathi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 62
ending page: 71
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861889

Ecosophical Reflections on Human-Animal Affinity in Tagore’s “Subha” and Premchand’s “Two Bullocks”
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description: Rabindranath Tagore and Premchand are always considered to be the pioneering figures in the literary and cultural renaissance of modern India on account of their tremendous contribution. Both stories, set in the typical Indian background of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are remarkable studies of the deeper aspects of human and animal nature. Tagore’s “Subha” is built on its protagonist, Subhasini, which means ‘soft spoken’. Defying her name, she was dumb and additionally, was deaf too, making her existence a curse for her parents and family. The proximity between human beings and animals is beautifully reflected in “Two Bullocks” by Premchand. This story illustrates the loyalty between the owner and his bullocks. When the bullocks were sent away by their master, they revolted silently and did not touch food. After a series of adversities, they helped other animals and a kitten escape from the cattle pound and finally fled to their owner’s house, where they were welcomed, tears in their master's eyes. The prime objective of this paper is to explore the ecosophical interdependence between human beings and animals, drawing on these two stories.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: reciprocation of affection
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subject: human beings
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subject: domestic animals
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subject: hostility
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subject: loyalty
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creator: Dr Pravamayee Samantaray
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 54
ending page: 61
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861776

Rewriting Authorship: AI-Generated Literature and the Postmodern Death of the Author
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description: The sudden proliferation of artificial intelligence in literary production has radically disrupted the traditional notion of authorship, originality, and creative agency. In this paper, I will return to Roland Barthes's classic essay “The Death of the Author” to argue that AI-produced literature represents the most tangible manifestation of poststructuralist theory to date. By engaging with the ideas of Michel Foucault’s “author-function,” Jacques Derrida’s theory of textual instability, and Walter Benjamin’s theory of mechanical reproduction, I will argue that AI does not merely kill the author but rather distributes authorship along algorithmic, institutional, and interpretive lines. By comparing and contrasting the poetics of Romanticism with AI-produced literature, I will show that artificial intelligence reconfigures authorship from a singular origin to a hybrid, procedural one. In doing so, AI represents not the “death of the author” but rather the “birth of algorithmic authorship.”
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Authorship
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subject: AI-Generated Literature
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subject: poststructuralist theory
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subject: algorithmic authorship
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creator: Ms. Veepujerla Snigdha
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 49
ending page: 53
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861728

Mythical Realms Reimagined: A Study of the Select Works of Rick Riordan
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description: Mythology has long been an integral part of storytelling, weaving a complex tapestry of characters, themes, and narratives that have captivated audiences across generations. From ancient Greek and Roman traditions to Egyptian and Norse mythic systems, mythology continues to influence contemporary literature. This paper examines the evolution of mythological perspectives in Rick Riordan's selected works, with particular focus on the treatment of Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythologies in Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Through close textual analysis informed by relevant theoretical perspectives, the study demonstrates how Riordan reproduces and reinterprets ancient mythological themes in modern settings while preserving their philosophical depth. By reimagining heroism, disability, cultural inheritance, and fate, he transforms mythology into a dynamic cultural framework for empowerment, ethical reflection, and identity formation in contemporary young adult literature.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mythological Reinterpretation
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subject: Young Adult Literature
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subject: Cultural Identity
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creator: Ritu Rani
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 41
ending page: 48
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861690

Myth, Memory, and Trauma in Nation-Building Narratives
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description: Nation-building is not only a political process but also a narrative act. It is fundamentally cultural and psychological. Nations are constructed through shared myths, collective memories, and narrative traumas. It is also true that Nations are imagined, remembered, and mythologised into existence through stories. Stories transform different acts into different ideas. Those stories also transform violence into destiny and suffering into sacrifice. This paper examines how myth, cultural memory, and trauma intersect within nation-building narratives. Drawing upon Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined communities, Jan Aleida Assmann’s work on cultural memory and Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory. The paper argues that National stories often use painful past events to bring people together and make them feel united, as these stories connect people and make them proud of their nation. While myth provides sense and symbolic continuity, trauma interrupts history and leaves lasting pain that cannot be easily explained or resolved. The paper claims that nation-building narratives operate through selective remembering and strategic forgetting. It is converting historical violence into a foundational myth of unity, generating counter-memories that challenge official national histories. By theorising this tension, the article demonstrates that nationhood is sustained not only by shared memory but also by managed trauma.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Collective memory
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subject: Cultural memory
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subject: National narrative
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creator: Mrs. Kinnaribahen Anilbhai Patel
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 35
ending page: 40
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861631

From Homosocial Triangle to Queer Relationality: Gender Performativity and Anti-Essentialism in The Song of Achilles
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description: The classical epic genre has historically been a significant site for the construction of heroic masculinity grounded in martial excellence, bodily exceptionality, and homosocial relations structured through rivalry, conquest, and the exchange of women. Homer's Iliad presents Achilles as a quintessential warrior whose identity is constructed through violence and honour. Although his relationship with Patroclus has often been made marginal or de-sexualised in classical reception, despite the emotional intensity of Achilles' bond with Patroclus, the epic remains uneasy with a heteronormative reading of the Iliad. Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles intervenes at this fault line by reimagining epic heroism through the language of intimacy, vulnerability, and care. This paper argues how the novel queers the Homeric tradition by centring the erotic and affective relationship between Achilles and Patroclus while exposing the patriarchal logics that underpin heroic masculinity. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of male homosocial desire and Judith Butler's concepts of gender performativity and anti-essentialism, the paper identifies three interrelated interventions. The story reworks, or better, refuses, Sedgwick's homosocial "erotic triangle" by not placing women in the mediation between the men. As an alternative, it proposes an openly acknowledged erotic bond between the two men. At the same time, Briseis and Thetis' functions involving the masculine rivalry are disruptive, not stabilising, providing for queer kinship networks or as agents of patriarchal enforcement. By applying Butler's concept of gender as a "stylised repetition of acts", the paper demonstrates that Achilles, being the "greatest of the Greeks", does not express an innate masculine essence but rather the effect of repeated performances required by militarised culture. In contrast, Patroclus's care-centred role as a healer embodies an alternative masculinity rationalised through relationality…
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Queer Theory
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subject: Homosocial Desire
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subject: Gender Performativity
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subject: Classical Myth Rewriting
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creator: Nisha Pandey
creator: Dr. Kalyani Dixit
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 23
ending page: 34
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861563

Food, Faith, and Maritime Culture: Culinary Traditions of Muslims in Kayalpattinam
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description: The paper examines the culinary traditions of the Muslim community in Kayalpattinam, a historically significant coastal town in southeastern Tamil Nadu, India. The study investigates how centuries of maritime trade networks, regional ecology, and intercultural exchange have shaped the community's distinctive foodways. Employing a qualitative research framework, this study integrates historical documentary analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, examination of indigenous community narratives and oral histories. The study documents both everyday and ceremonial food practices of the Kayalpattinam Muslims. The finding reveals that Kayalpattinam’s culinary landscape exhibits a remarkable cultural synthesis reflecting the integration of diverse culinary influences from Arab, Sri Lankan, Maldivian, and Southeast Asian maritime traditions. Analysis of signature dishes, festival-specific confections, and wedding cuisines reveals a sophisticated process of culinary localisation, particularly through the utilisation of indigenous palm-based ingredients and the development of adaptive household food production strategies. The study concludes that food functions as a vital maker of identity, social cohesion, and cultural memory, preserving the town’s maritime heritage within contemporary culinary practices.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: maritime foodways
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subject: Tamil Muslim cuisine
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subject: culinary hybridity
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creator: Afiya Nazeer S
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 16
ending page: 22
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861496

Teaching Young Readers to Speak Through Silence: Language Anxiety in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
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description: Young Adult (YA) fiction is rapidly emerging as one of the most effectively engaged literary spaces for adolescent readers, particularly those facing anxiety, trauma, and identity issues. Among these affective struggles, linguistic anxiety-the fear of speaking, of judgment, or of failing at language- remains under-theorised in literary studies. This paper argues that young adult fiction performs a quietly pedagogical work by rendering silence, hesitation, and broken speech not as lack or failure but as meaningful states of emotional and linguistic survival. Drawing on narrative analyses of selected young adult novels, including “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, “Wonder” by R. J. Palacio, and “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo, this paper demonstrates how storytelling modes such as interior monologue, fragmented speech, and narrative silence naturalise linguistic vulnerability. Drawing on theories of affect, narrative studies, and language ideology, the paper shows that young adult literature trains young readers to reinterpret fear of speaking as a legitimate emotional state rather than a personal failure. As silence becomes a site of healing and voice-building, contemporary young adult literature emerges as an alternative affective classroom that teaches young readers how to inhabit speech without shame.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Young Adult fiction
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subject: language anxiety
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subject: silence
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subject: voice
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subject: affect theory
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creator: Ms. Codagandla Sanjana
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 8
ending page: 15
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861410

Gendered Citizenship, Religious Identity, and Political Structuring: Re-Theorising Feminist Subjectivity in Why I Am a Hindu Woman
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description: The article discusses Why I Am a Hindu Woman by Nivedita Menon, using feminist political theory, intersectionality, and postcolonial citizenship studies to argue that religious identity is not culturally inherited but rather politically structured. Implementing the concepts of intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989), feminist nationalism (Mohanty, 2015), state-gender theory (Rao, 2018), and decolonial feminist thought (Tuck and Yang, 2012/2018; Whyte, 2018), the article argues that the category “Hindu Woman” is created as a political subject through intersections with institutional power, nationalist discourses, and gendered governance. Instead of validating religious identity as an essential inner self, Menon's article reveals its connection to the law, majoritarian fears, and nationalist movements. The article argues that the State-Religion-Gender Triad is a conceptual framework to explain the construction of feminine subjects in majoritarian regimes. By using Menon’s piece within the existing debate on issues such as secularism, citizenship, and feminist resistance, the article contributes to feminist political theory. It maps the identity-formation debate in post-colonial democracies.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gender and nationalism
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subject: Feminist political theory
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subject: Religious identity
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creator: Dr. Devashish Kumar
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 1
ending page: 7
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18861344

Contextualizing Transnationalism in Indian English Literature: A Study of A Suitable Boy and The Shadow Lines
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description: This paper examines the manifestation of transnationalism in two landmark Indian English novels: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1993) and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines (1988). Through a comparative analysis, this study explores how both authors negotiate the complex terrain of national boundaries, cultural identities, and historical memory in the postcolonial Indian context. While Seth's novel anchors itself primarily within the geographical boundaries of newly independent India, it nonetheless engages with transnational forces through cultural exchange, political discourse, and the looming question of Partition. Ghosh's narrative, conversely, explicitly foregrounds border-crossing, memory, and the artificiality of national boundaries. Drawing on scholarship in transnational studies, postcolonial theory, and South Asian literary criticism, this paper argues that both novels challenge the rigidity of nationalist discourse and reveal how personal narratives transcend geographical and temporal borders. The analysis demonstrates that transnationalism in Indian English literature operates not merely through physical migration but through imaginative mappings, historical consciousness, and the perpetual negotiation between local and global identities.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Transnationalism
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subject: Partition
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subject: Postcolonial Studies
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subject: National Boundaries
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subject: Cultural Identity
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creator: Wamankumar Kishanrao Wani
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2024-11-01
publication date: 2024-11-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 16
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18460464

Healing Through Kinship: Male Friendship and Identity in Easterine Kire's Bitter Wormwood
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description: This paper analyses the quality and strength of friendship between Mose, the protagonist, and Neituo in Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood. She is considered the first Naga poet to publish in English and the first Naga novelist to write in English. In her novel Bitter Wormwood, the characters change drastically, offering a glimpse of what Nagaland was like then and of how their relationship transformed during the Naga freedom struggle. In this book, we see the friendship between Mose and Neituo as they exchange tones in wartime, share small acts of kindness, and understand the landscapes they find themselves in. This work represents their companionship with Mose and Neituo, as they used to share experiences during the war. The heroes also show skill in facing tragedy gracefully rather than becoming bitter. Throughout the story, their friendship and experiences of historical events in Nagaland are depicted. Bitter Wormwood places more emphasis on social realism rather than heroic archetypes and foreshadows the ordinary existence of people in the Nagaland pious community. Patience, as in the case of Mose and Neituo, is a nexus between individual healing and social fortitude, thus a conduit to healing. A close textual analysis reveals the emotional system that represents a stable affective scale and describes male friendship in the context of a violent historical environment.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Resilience
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subject: Friendship
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subject: Historical Experiences
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subject: Social Reality
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creator: Kaviya B
creator: Dr. D. Dhanalakshmi
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 47
ending page: 54
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18314886

Integrating LSRW Skills in Teaching Self-Introduction: A Task-Based Approach
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description: This study examines the integration of LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing) skills in teaching self-introduction in English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts, particularly for higher secondary students. Drawing on task-based language teaching principles, this research demonstrates how structured self-introduction practice builds vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and communicative competence. By implementing student-centered activities tailored to diverse learner abilities, the study provides evidence of practical improvements in language proficiency and real-world communication. The findings suggest that LSRW-integrated pedagogy enhances learners' confidence and functional language use through authentic communicative tasks.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Self-introduction
  topic: keywords
subject: LSRW skills
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subject: task-based language teaching
  topic: keywords
subject: communicative competence
  topic: keywords
subject: English language teaching
  topic: keywords
creator: Nithya Sree T
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 89
ending page: 100
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18287608

Windows and Mirrors: The Role of Multicultural Narratives in Shaping Empathy in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
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description: In contemporary multicultural and global societies, children and young adults are increasingly exposed to cultural diversity in their everyday lives. Literature written for young readers plays a significant role in shaping their understanding of themselves and others. Multicultural narratives in children’s and young adult literature introduce readers to diverse cultures, identities, and lived experiences, thereby fostering empathy and social awareness. This paper argues that multicultural literature is essential for fostering empathy, reducing prejudice, and promoting inclusive attitudes among young readers. Drawing on empathy theory, reader-response theory, and social learning and identity theories, the study examines how multicultural narratives influence both the emotional and cognitive development of children and adolescents. The paper also discusses the dual function of multicultural literature: affirming the identities of marginalized readers while expanding the perspectives of readers from dominant cultural backgrounds. In addition, challenges such as stereotyping, lack of authenticity, and limited integration of multicultural texts in educational settings are examined. The study concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective practices to maximize the empathetic and educational value of multicultural literature. Overall, the paper highlights the role of children’s and young adult literature as a powerful tool for promoting empathy, cross-cultural understanding, and social inclusion.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: empathy
  topic: keywords
subject: multicultural literature
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subject: children’s literature
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subject: young adult literature
  topic: keywords
subject: identity
  topic: keywords
subject: cross-cultural understanding
  topic: keywords
creator: Mohanapriyadharshini E
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 83
ending page: 88
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145936

Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Paradigms in Adolescent Cinema: Implications for Mental Well-Being and Digital Health
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description: This paper examines the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethical considerations, and mental well-being in children’s and adolescent literature as depicted in six seminal films: The Iron Giant (1999), Big Hero 6 (2014), WALL-E (2008), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), and Next Gen (2018). Through close analysis of these narratives, the study explores how these films address critical ethical dilemmas, including the moral programming of AI, human-AI emotional bonds, and the psychological impacts of technological dependence. Furthermore, the paper investigates the representation of mental health issues, grief, identity formation, and digital culture, particularly in young audiences. The findings reveal the potential of these films not only to entertain but also to educate adolescents about the socio-ethical implications of AI in a rapidly digitizing world. This study aims to contribute to the discourse on digital health literacy and the role of AI-driven narratives in shaping adolescent values and well-being.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Adolescent Mental Health
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital Well-Being
  topic: keywords
subject: Human-AI Relationships
  topic: keywords
creator: Dr Devika T.
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 76
ending page: 82
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145889

Changing Revered Spaces of Rural Tamil Nadu in Perumal Murugan’s “The Last Sacrifice” and “Magamuni”: A Spatial Analysis
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description: The paper examines the transformation and reconfiguration of rural spaces in Tamil Nadu through a close reading of Perumal Murugan’s short stories “The Last Sacrifice” and “Magamuni.” Drawing on Spatial Theory, particularly the theories of critics such as Henri Lefebvre, Robert T. Tally Jr., and Nigel Thrift, the study examines how Murugan portrays rural space as a site of tension between continuity and disruption. The paper also analyses how religious practices and ritualistic beliefs can seep into secular, neutral, everyday spaces in rural Tamil Nadu, revealing how spatial boundaries are constantly negotiated through symbolic power. While “The Last Sacrifice” illuminates the negotiations of power and belief systems within ritualized rural settings, “Magamuni” portrays the psychological and material displacements that accompany the breakdown of traditional social frameworks. Together, these narratives show how Murugan’s fiction maps the evolving textures of rural existence, capturing both the resilience and vulnerability of communities confronting transformation. The paper argues that such literary representations provide valuable insight into the lived realities and spatial imaginations of contemporary rural Tamil Nadu.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: local spaces
  topic: keywords
subject: polyvalency
  topic: keywords
subject: transformation
  topic: keywords
subject: power
  topic: keywords
subject: knowledge
  topic: keywords
creator: Bhadra Menon
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 69
ending page: 75
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145868

The Role of ChatGPT in Teaching Writing Skills in Language Education
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description: Conventionally, language acquisition techniques have proved effective, based on structured classroom approaches and face-to-face instruction. Although these methods are effective, they consume significant time and resources. Thus, such approaches restrict expandability and adaptability to meet the needs of diverse learners. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications has altered the paradigm. Unlike traditional methods, ChatGPT uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to provide fast, customized responses on grammar, style, and coherence. It has high-order language-processing abilities, allowing learners to refine and revise their writing. It is consistent with modern ELT theories, which focus on the implementation of technology in the classroom that would promote learner autonomy. This research examines the potential of ChatGPT in the instruction and revision of writing skills, comparing it with traditional systems and recent teaching methods. The study takes a conceptual and comparative approach, using the existing literature and pedagogical theories to examine the role of ChatGPT in writing instruction.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: ChatGPT
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subject: ELT
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subject: Writing skills
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subject: Language learning
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creator: Amee Teraiya
creator: Dr. Anjana Prajapati
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 60
ending page: 68
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145849

Illustration of Jyotish, Astrology, and Shakun Shastra in Maharshi Valmiki’s Shrimad Valmiki Ramayan
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description: The massive tree of the Indian knowledge system has numerous widespread and intense branches of ancient beliefs and practices. Religion, science, Ayurveda, palmistry, astrology, philosophy, classical dance, classical music, mathematics, medicine, surgery, jyotish, architecture, yoga, vastu-shastra, and literature are its leaves. Diverse spheres of wisdom corresponding to the above-mentioned domains are its fruits. Maharshi Valmiki was a great astrologer and a foreseer too. He was ‘trikaldarshi’ as he could see past the present and the future. His knowledge of ‘Jyotish vigyan’ was unparalleled. My paper focuses on the depiction of Jyotish along with various planetary positions and their effects on human lives, as written in Shrimad Valmikiya Ramayanam.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: planets
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subject: nakshtras
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subject: punarvasu
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subject: karkat
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subject: shani
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creator: Prof. Kalyani Dixit
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 54
ending page: 59
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145800

Recipes of Resistance: Food as Cultural Archive and Postcolonial Identity in South Indian Literature
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description: Food is not only basic; it is an account of cultural echoes, defiance, and identity. This paper investigates how culinary narratives in South Indian literature act as a framework to explore social hierarchy, postcolonial hybridity, and gendered exploitation. With a thorough reading of texts of Shoba Narayan’s Kitchens of Gratitude, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, and Krish Ashok’s Masala Lab, the paper studies how food functions as both a plot of revolt and nostalgia. Kitchens and recipes, frequently set aside as domestic spaces, are redefined as cultural war fragments where caste, class, and colonial settlement bisect. The paper argues that the culinary projection in these texts describes above tradition and taste, acting as a device to conserve shared memory and confronting presiding histories. In Kitchens of Gratitude, food sets off a language of connection and acknowledgement, indicating Bangalore’s cosmopolitan cultural frame. Roy’s narrative in The God of Small Things confines food to caste ordering and restrained love by making use of culinary metaphors to analyze social injustice. Ashok’s Masala Lab, while scientific in tone, recovers the cultural importance of South Indian cooking, combining humor with a postcolonial declaration of identity. By gathering the views of postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and memory studies, this paper brings out in what way food narratives represent the expanding dynamics of South Indian identification. It argues that culinary literature is not just about recipes but also opposition, recollection, and the recovery of the suppressed.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Culinary literature
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subject: postcolonial identity
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subject: cultural memory
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subject: hybridity
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subject: resistance
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creator: Ms Deepthi R
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 46
ending page: 53
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145747

From Kitchen to Community: How Axone Exposes Racism Against Northeast Indians in Urban India
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description: This paper examines the Netflix film Axone (2019) as a cultural text that exposes the everyday racism experienced by people from the Northeast living in mainland India's metropolitan cities. Through the symbolic use of akhuni, a fermented soybean dish central to the narrative, the film reveals how Northeast Indians' food habits and cultural differences provoke prejudice and stereotyping. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of identity politics, cultural representation, and everyday racism, this study explores how Axone depicts the struggles of Northeastern migrants in mainland India as cultural “aliens” from the far Northeast region. Using qualitative film analysis and thematic interpretation, the paper argues that Axone documents microaggressions, discrimination, and the structural exclusion of an entire region within mainland India. The film also highlights community solidarity among people from Northeast India as a vital mechanism of survival. In this context, Axone functions as a critical cinematic intervention that challenges dominant metropolitan narratives and urges a reconsideration of race, identity, and cultural coexistence in contemporary India.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Racism
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subject: Cultural Representation
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subject: Food and Othering
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subject: Microaggressions
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creator: Dr. Luku Morang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 34
ending page: 45
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145712

Cultural Conflict in Amy Tan's Novels: Chinese Heritage and American Modernity
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description: Through the personal prism of familial ties, Amy Tan's novels regularly depict the conflict and negotiation between Western, particularly American, modernism and Chinese cultural traditions. Her books feature second-generation women who grow up in a secular, individualistic, English-speaking United States and first-generation Chinese immigrants who carry with them memories of war, sexism, and superstition. This paper examines how Amy Tan's key works, including The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Hundred Secret Senses, address cultural differences. By focusing on recurrent themes such as mother-daughter conflict, food, language, miscommunication, superstition, gender roles, and the quest for selfhood, the analysis demonstrates how Amy Tan's characters progressively transition from rejecting, confusing, or being ashamed of Chinese culture to more nuanced, hybrid identities. The books depict culture as a dynamic process of translation, reinterpretation, and selective inheritance rather than a straightforward East-versus-West dichotomy. In the end, Amy Tan's work implies that while cultural differences cannot be eliminated, they can become a source of creativity and resilience when characters learn to hear each other's experiences across generational and cultural barriers.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mother-Daughter Struggle
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subject: Hybridity
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subject: Cultural Differences
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creator: B. Mannisha
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 27
ending page: 33
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145672

Resistance against Patriarchy and Political Oppression: A Comparative Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits
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description: Literature serves as a mirror to every nuance of change, providing the key to the labyrinth of history. Bengali author Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi (1978) is narrated in the context of the Naxalite movement in British India. Chilean author Isabel Allende’s debut Spanish-language novel, The House of the Spirits (1982), is set during the repressive regime of Augusto Pinochet. Although these novels are set in different national contexts, they give voice and visibility to women's struggles and convey the interplay of politics, patriarchy, and the brute force of State power. The female protagonist Draupadi in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and Alba in Allende’s The House of the Spirits are victims of sexual violence perpetrated by state authorities for political reasons. The intersection of gender, violence, and political circumstances is central to the stories of the people from the periphery, as Kimberle Williams Crenshaw proposes that a particular section of society is marginalized by oppression based on different types of identity markers, such as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, etc. The assaults on Alba and Draupadi represent acts of terror to gain control over not only isolated women but also the communities of women in general. Despite the hardships they endure, both characters demonstrate resistance that defies their victimization. Alba’s inner strength and Draupadi’s courageous rebellion highlight the layered nature of female agency within oppressive circumstances. The depiction of their suffering, followed by defiance in the face of fear, offers a powerful commentary on the potential for reclaiming agency in mid-1970s Bengal and the early 1980s Chilean context of systemic oppression. By comparing the experiences of the female protagonists through the lens of intersectionality, this study highlights common themes of marginalisation, suffering, and resilience, while also acknowledging the distinct cultural and political contexts within each narrative.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Intersectionality
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subject: Marginalized
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subject: Class
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subject: Gender
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subject: Representation
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creator: Susmita Midya
creator: Dr Mallika Ghosh Sarbadhikary
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 17
ending page: 26
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145638

Narrative Refusal: Mahasweta Devi’s Characters Who Refuse Redemption
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description: Mahasweta Devi has occupied a singular position in Indian English literature for her uncompromising engagement with political injustice, gendered violence, and state oppression. Unlike conventional narratives that move towards reconciliation, healing, or moral closure, Devi's fiction persists in resisting redemption. This paper argues that Mahasweta Devi constructs characters who refuse sympathy, transformation, or ethical resolution to disturb the dominant expectations of narration. This study proposes "narrative refusal" as a conscious aesthetic and ethical strategy rather than a failure of narration, through a close reading of Draupadi, Stanadayini (Breast-Giver), and Rudali. Her protagonists do not emerge as redeemed victims or triumphant survivors but confront the readers with unresolved trauma, bodily exhaustion, and moral discomfort. Denying catharsis and closure, Devi places the onus of ethical responsibility on the reader, compelling confrontation rather than consolation. The paper draws on insights from narrative ethics, feminist theory, and anti-redemptive literary frameworks to demonstrate how refusal is converted into a radical political tool in Devi's writing. The study furthers existing scholarship on Devi by going beyond resistance-centred and empowerment-based approaches to position her as one of the writers of anti-redemptive political aesthetics within Indian feminist and subaltern literature.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Narrative refusal
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subject: redemption
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subject: feminist discomfort
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subject: ethical reading
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creator: Ms. Codagandla Sanjana
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 10
ending page: 16
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145598

Silence as Counter-Memory: Trauma, Resistance, and Feminist Testimony in Beloved and The Story of Zahra
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description: The modern world has seen significant social and technological progress, but this progress has also exposed deeper wounds of history and identity. Women, especially, tend to remain silent, unheard, and unseen. Generally, silence means oppression in literature. However, in feminist writing, it means remembering, resisting, and articulating that which cannot be talked about. The article studies the role of silence as memory and resistance in two significant feminist works, Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Hanan al-Shaykh’s The Story of Zahra (1980). Both authors have illustrated women ensnared in violent patriarchal worlds where their pain, guilt, and trauma are expressed in silence and not in words. The silence in these pieces is a presence where memories linger, not an absence of sound. The study looks at Cathy Caruth’s concept of the “disrupted narrative” in terms of Judith Herman’s “temporal disruption” and Hélène Cixous’ “theory of language”, through Aleida Assmann’s “corporality”. In Beloved, Sethe's immobility suggests the constant dwelling with the memories of slavery and the pain of motherhood, and how the past never goes away. In The Story of Zahra, Zahra prefers silence as a form of survival, resistance, and life in the war-torn, oppressive, violent world. In the end, silence in these novels is a kind of counter-memory. It resists the imposition of dominant histories. In addition, it offers a voice when language fails. Morrison and al-Shaykh's conversion of silence into strength reveals their engagement with testimony and memory as survival.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Feminist
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subject: Oppressive
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subject: Remembering
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subject: Memory
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subject: Slavery
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creator: Jaydip Pravinbhai Patel
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 1
ending page: 9
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18145563

Exploring Miller's Unnamed Revolutionary Leader’s Sacrifice in the Resurrection Blues
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description: This study examines the unnamed revolutionary leader’s sacrifice to both invoke and dismantle the myths surrounding iconic sacrificial figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jesus Christ. This essay focuses on how these sacrificial figures served society and sacrificed their lives for its benefit. This analysis seeks the unnamed Revolutionary leader as the potential "messiah" figure, and is explicitly designed to invoke these historical and spiritual parallels. Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues is not only a satirical exploration of celebrity, media, and political exploitation, but also a portrayal of a great revolutionary leader’s sacrifice and spiritual yearning in a materialistic world. In the play, the Revolutionary leader’s treatment reveals the mechanisms by which society (corporatized, media-saturated, politically cynical) consumes, distorts, and neutralizes the transformative power of such figures. This essay suggests that the revolutionary leader's service to society, despite his own risk, is commendable. The sacrifice, which thoughtfully connects the unnamed leader to such pivotal historical and spiritual figures, is both insightful and compelling. Crafting a strong academic argument about these sacrificial figures will undoubtedly yield a powerful, relevant message for society or the present generation.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Media
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subject: Corporate
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subject: Materialistic
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subject: Revolutionary
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subject: Sacrifice
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creator: N. Subha Lakshmi
creator: Dr. B. S. Arun
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 111
ending page: 117
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18108168

Voices from Foreign Land: A Study of Select Diaspora Narratives of Rohinton Mistry
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description: Diaspora is a social formation outside the nation of its origin. Diaspora deals with the uprooting, forced or voluntary, of the mass of people from their native ‘homeland’ and their ‘re-rooting’ in the foreign land. The word ‘diaspora’ comes from the Greek composite verb diasperiein-dia (meaning ‘through or across’) and speirein (meaning to sow/scatter). Diaspora means to scatter through/across, an act of dispersion or scattering. It is an act of gathering and settlement from the homeland to the host land, which is known as the new land. The term diaspora was not in circulation before the 1980s, and there was no evidence of diaspora theory before that decade. Rohinton Mistry is a writer of the Indian diaspora who settled in a foreign land and speaks about his diasporic consciousness of his homeland through his novels set in Canada. The main objective of the research article is to reveal voices from the cross-border using diasporic narratives in the novels of Rohinton Mistry.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: uprooting
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subject: re-rooting
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subject: homeland
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subject: foreign land
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creator: Dr. Rajesh S Gore
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 102
ending page: 110
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17926605

Nowhere Women: The Double Marginalization of Denotified Tribal Women
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description: Nowhere Women: The Double Marginalization of Denotified Tribal Women explores the layered oppression faced by women belonging to Denotified Tribes (DNTs) in India—communities historically branded as "criminal" under colonial law and still grappling with systemic exclusion. These women endure a unique intersection of caste-based stigma and gendered violence, rendering them invisible in both policy and public discourse. The paper examines how colonial legacies, such as the Criminal Tribes Act and its successor, the Habitual Offenders Act, continue to shape their socio-economic realities. It analyzes the failure of state mechanisms to adequately recognize and support DNT women, despite schemes like SEED and recommendations from commissions. Through a critical lens, the study highlights issues of identity denial, lack of access to education and healthcare, vulnerability to sexual violence, and absence from political representation. Ultimately, the paper calls for a reimagining of inclusion frameworks that center the voices and lived experiences of these "nowhere women"—those who exist at the margins of both caste and gender justice.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: de-notified tribes
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subject: criminal
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subject: policies
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subject: women
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creator: Dr. Merlin Kumari K
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 96
ending page: 101
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17723140

Children’s Literature in the Digital Era: The Indian Scenario
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description: Children’s literature in the modern world is undergoing sea changes. The introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has had an impact even on children’s literature. There have been changes not only in the contents but also in the way literature is presented to children. Advanced science has introduced many electronic gadgets, which have prompted children to be glued to them, reading, watching, or even listening to their favourite literature. Children of today are increasingly drawn to digital screens, and literature is being written for them, making it suitable for this medium. However, whatever is being said is applied to Western countries. In the Indian subcontinent, children’s literature is not so influenced by modern gadgets or ICT. Even the genre of children’s literature is being neglected in India. If at all it is in existence, it is only in the form of short stories or pictorial cartoons. Only a few Indian characters are popular among children. Characters from epics and puraanas are still used repeatedly by children filmmakers and publishers. This paper aims to analyze these issues. An effort has also been made to compare the present status of children’s literature of the West and that of India.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: digital
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subject: narratives
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subject: grandparents
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subject: puraanas
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subject: hypertextuality
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creator: Dr. Naveena V
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 91
ending page: 95
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17577189

Gender Equality Through the Lens of Patriarchal Literature
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description: This paper deals with the theme of gender equality through the lens of patriarchal literature, focusing on the works of Vijay Tendulkar, Mahasweta Devi, and Kamala Das. Each work reveals how patriarchy has shaped differences among gendered lives, silencing voices and restricting freedoms not only for women but also for society as a whole. In Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session, the play exposes the cruelty and rigid mindsets of societal institutions, particularly the courtroom, which shows gender differences and suppress women’s situation and voices. Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084 highlights the intertwined oppressions of political and patriarchal forces, where a mother’s grief becomes inseparable from the larger struggle for justice. Kamala Das’s poems, especially An Introduction and The Old Playhouse, portray the tensions of self-expression and identity under marital and societal expectations. Her husband’s disapproval of her writing in English and his possessiveness underscore the emotional suffocation imposed on women. Through these analyses, the paper demonstrates how patriarchal systems perpetuate inequality through mechanisms of silence, control, and suppression. At the same time, it shows how literature functions as a space of resistance, offering voices of dissent and reimagining the dynamics of power, equality, and justice.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gender Equality
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subject: Patriarchy
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subject: Feminist Literature
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creator: Afroz Begum
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the English Literator Society
date: 2025-11-05
publication date: 2025-11-05
starting page: 83
ending page: 90
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17529007