Jun'23


The IUP Journal of English Studies

ISSN: 0973-3728

A 'peer reviewed' journal indexed on Elsevier, and also distributed by EBSCO and Proquest Database

It is a quarterly journal for informed critical evaluations of various areas of Literature, English Language Teaching, Translation studies relating to emerging and established genres. A fresh and invigorating evaluation of the contributions of writers and their significant writings are on offer in the Journal. Also deals with Linguistics and literature; Literary and literary theory; Bhasa studies, etc.

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  • British Literature
  • American Literature
  • Commonwealth Literature
  • Indian Writing in English
  • English Language Teaching
  • Comparative Literature
  • Translation Studies
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Bildungsroman - An Art of Developing Cognitive Equilibrium
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Altruism in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
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Displacement of the Song: A Study of Pather Panchali
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'Locating the Unlocatable': The Voyage on the 'Mytho-Political' Borderland in Ben Okri's Songs of Enchantment
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Transgression of Gendered Spaces in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column: Towards Construction of Female Agency
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"Your Bottom Power Is Easier and Surer": Feminist Supervisions in Intercourse and Human Rights in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke
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Application of Black American "Aesthetics" and "New Consciousness" to Toni Morrison's Beloved and Beyond: A Comparative Critical Discourse
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(De)Constructing Man-Animal Binary in Santal Folktales
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Aravind Adiga's Amnesty: A Critique of Globalization
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Bildungsroman - An Art of Developing Cognitive Equilibrium
Kiruthika P

Development of self is closely associated with external factors. There are many theories explaining the theory of human development. But the novels of the Bildungsroman Genre greatly focus on the development of an individual from childhood to adulthood. The Bildungsroman novels are rich in such social interactions that they give ample opportunities for readers to interpret them using socialistic, realistic, naturalistic and cognitive approaches. Also, there should be a cognitive equilibrium for the development of an individual to take place. Cognitive equilibrium is the balance between the individual's mental schemata and the environment. This paper focuses on the Bildungsroman novels and their role in improving the self of an individual.


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Altruism in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Aanchal Arora and Manju

Altruism is the principle and practice of genuine concern for the wellbeing of others. Altruism is typically regarded as the behavior that puts one's own needs aside for the sake of others. Khaled Hosseini highlights this notion in The Kite Runner through his characters Hassan and his son Sohrab. Hassan sacrifices his needs for the happiness of his half-brother Amir. He underlines, "For you thousand times over." Sohrab too represents altruism when he makes an effort to rescue Amir, risking his own life. This paper examines altruism as exemplified by selected characters in The Kite Runner in the light of the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis propounded by Daniel Batson.


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Displacement of the Song: A Study of Pather Panchali
Hardeep Kaur

Displacement has largely been studied from a focal point of having arrived at a specific place, giving rise to nostalgia towards the place left behind. One of the significant factors associated with identity and being is memory, whereas both the aspects of belonging and longing emanate from the familiarity with the place. The physical and the arbitrary thus entail rootedness within the uprooted state. The state of dislocation when perceived as a journey holds scope for the study of the interface between loss and gain and the transition from innocence and experience appended with renewed idea of place. The study is based on the novel Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and proposes to examine different aspects of dislocation that are essentially effectuated by unmitigated poverty in the text. The depiction of Indian rural life and the delineation of cultural nuances is another characteristic study in the novel, as it shapes the prospective displacement. It also includes the exploration of how the migration of characters from Nishchindipur to Benares is viewed through the eyes of Horihor, Shorbojoya and Opu towards the end of the text. An attempt is made to critically analyze the importance of 'road' in the form of onward journey for the characters in the novel. The significance of the literal English translation of the original title, Pather Panchali, which means 'Song of the Road,' is studied in relation to alteration from the song of the nativity to becoming music of memory towards the end.


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'Locating the Unlocatable': The Voyage on the 'Mytho-Political' Borderland in Ben Okri's Songs of Enchantment
Monali Sahu Pathange and Amith Kumar P V

The paper examines and analyzes Ben Okri's novel Songs of Enchantment (1993), which reflects his diverse and protean opinion of the social and political upheavals in post-independent Nigeria through the congruous amalgamation of the mythical, magical, and real. Okri situates his characters, especially protagonist Azaro, the abiku child, on the threshold of two worlds-the tangible, humane, and concrete/real world and the intangible, supernatural, abstract, and mythical world of the spirits. The act of deliberate blurring of boundaries between these two worlds exemplifies the 'in-betweenness' of Azaro's existence. The paper discusses the theoretical evolution of the concept of 'liminality' and renowned Indian-British scholar and critical theorist Homi K Bhabha's understanding of the implications of the term 'liminality.' He contends three important aspects of 'liminality'-in-between spaces, cultural difference, and hybridity. These aspects have been taken into consideration to locate the character of Azaro and his journey in a 'liminal' space-a passage of constant fluidity where the protagonist Azaro dwells in a 'borderland' or 'in-between space'/threshold. Real-life experiences merge with the mythic realm to create a world beyond chaos and mysterious occurrences. Dreams and reality coalesce to create a 'liminal zone', which transforms into a 'transcultural space' for the characters with multiple identities, fractured identities/self-fragmented identities. The 'hybrid' identity of the protagonist Azaro in the Famished Road Trilogy situates him in a 'third space' where 'cultural difference' unchains him from the traditional stereotype descriptions and presents him as a challenge to the established notions and conceptualizations.


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Transgression of Gendered Spaces in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column: Towards Construction of Female Agency
Sana Asif and Sukhdev Singh

The objective of this paper is to delineate the gendering of geographical space in Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) by Attia Hosain and establish that through continuous violence and repeated transgressions of gendered spaces, agency can be built up. It is only through having an agency can women truly own the spaces they occupy.


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"Your Bottom Power Is Easier and Surer": Feminist Supervisions in Intercourse and Human Rights in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke
Nikita Anand and Aditya Prakash

The meaning of the phrase "prostitutes Nigerian style" is interrogated by the female protagonist of Emecheta's Double Yoke (1983, 141). Although the novel is primarily set in independent Nigeria, this paper analyzes the theme of female submission in the novel vis-a-vis dominant sexual intercourse powers to procure agency for discourses on basic human rights: to live, to educate, and to work freely within the national boundary. Drawing on the discursive idea of Dworkin (1987, 10) on intercourse in a man-made world, characterized by "depravity, debauchery, dissoluteness," this paper argues that Emecheta's novel calls into question why the existing hearings for an unimaginable devaluation of womanhood are still unrecorded, why the discourses of human rights and liberty fall short of women's needs, and how their existence is fraught by torture, beatings, and sexual punishments via the State's educational institutions and other governing organizations such as National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), Nigeria.


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Application of Black American "Aesthetics" and "New Consciousness" to Toni Morrison's Beloved and Beyond: A Comparative Critical Discourse
Shuvendu Ghosh, Rajiv Bhushan and Maninder Kapoor

Undoubtedly, Toni Morrison's novel Beloved is a work of fiction whose main function is not only to depict a story of slavery and emancipation, but also to produce a universal insight, a possible philosophical overview, and promote an aesthetic taste for receiving culture, language, and history from a different point of view, perhaps a "New Consciousness." While analyzing the text Beloved, we understand how the language game itself is responsible for creating a decoded sense of "Signification" based on its usage of "rhetorical tropes"- an idea that has been minutely illustrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his theory of "Signifyin(g) Monkey"-a theory of "Signification" indigenous to Black American literature. This paper demonstrates an intersectional application of Black American "Aesthetics" and "New Consciousness" to Toni Morrison's Beloved. At the same time, the paper also demonstrates the possible application of Black American "Aesthetics'' and the idea of "New Consciousness" beyond the Black American canon, taking several references from postcolonial literary criticism, theory, and the very concept of "Third World Consciousness." With the help of the "Compare and Contrast" research technique, the paper explores the possible applications of Black American "Aesthetics'' and "New Consciousness" as reflected in Toni Morrison's Beloved.


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(De)Constructing Man-Animal Binary in Santal Folktales
Moumita Bala and Smriti Singh

This paper revisits the folktales of jackals in the less-explored Santal folklore. It foregrounds the unique interdependence of humans and animals in these folktales, inconsistent with the contemporary subject-object dichotomy between the human and animal worlds. Rather than being passive objects of literary discourse, animals in Santal folktales are depicted as potential individuals with "agency" who participate in various sorts of interaction. By questioning anthropocentricity, this study examines how the man-animal dichotomy is challenged by the jackals' active engagement in Santals' everyday lives and how the jackals are represented as closest neighbors of humans. In the process, it deploys a critical discourse analysis method to analyze stories from Bodding's three-volume collection of Santal folktales. Drawing on concepts like anthropomorphism, animal agency, and animal cognition, this paper examines the symbiotic relationship between Santals and jackals.


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Aravind Adiga's Amnesty: A Critique of Globalization
Bhupendra Nandlal Kesur and Anil Vandeo Andel

Aravind Adiga is one of the contemporary authors who has engraved his name in Indian Writing in English by winning the celebrated Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger. He has studied in universities abroad and later emigrated to Australia. This journey of Adiga in the alien land enabled him to accumulate experience, which is reflected in his writing. His novel Amnesty is set in Australia. It registers the happenings of a day in the life of the protagonist. This paper examines how in the novel Adiga explores immigration and cultural and identical crises, which are the outcomes of the process of globalization.


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