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Welcome to The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature
July '11

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The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, an academic initiative of IUP, is a peer-reviewed (both national and international) journal. It aims to provide a venue for the best work in the expanding field of Commonwealth Literature and thereby promote a dynamic and critical exchange of ideas among writers and scholars, covering the writings in English from regions such as Canada, Africa, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and others.


 
  • Aesthetic and Cultural Components
  • Cross-Border Inclusion
  • Cross-Cultural Encounters
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Nativism/Native Influences
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Multiculturalism
  • Ethnicity
  • Translation Studies
  • Comparative Studies
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Driving in the Diaspora Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s”
Of Minstrelsy and the Niger-Delta Condition: Tanure Ojaide
as Chronicler and Activist Writer
Negotiating Growth: The Self and Nation in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come
Return to Home: In Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family
and Romesh Gunesekera’s The Sandglass
Short Stories in Translation    
The Tourist
Vimukta (The Liberated)
   
Laughing Lepers (after George Barker); History’s Moment;
Canecutter’s Mandolin, A Walk in the Rain; Thank You
 
Stoking the Fire: A Conversation with Urdu Woman Poet
Bilqees Zafirul Hasan
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Driving in the Diaspora Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s”

-- Angshuman Kar

This study focuses upon the handling of contemporary postcolonial texts and cultural production in the global literary marketplace, through a materialist literary analysis of the recent fiction of Indian writer and 2008 MAN Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga. Adiga's texts The White Tiger (2008) and Between the Assassinations (2009) stage the aesthetic, cultural and commercial mediations which take place between texts and their publishers, as well as between the latest Indian novel and its audience. As such, these strategies emphasise broader acts of mediation taking place in the sphere of a global and globalised production and consumption of texts. By offering a reading of these two works, I hope to demonstrate how processes of `looking' and consuming, performing and competing are encoded, metaphorised and satirised in these textual objects, even as these processes are embedded in their handling and treatment by publishers and book-buyers.

Of Minstrelsy and the Niger-Delta Condition: Tanure Ojaide as Chronicler and Activist Writer

-- Enajite E Ojaruega

This essay is an explication of Frantz Fanon as a humanist. Through a detailed reading of his four major works, it proposes that, despite his insistence on violence, Fanon was reaching forward to a new form of humanism, one that would be more inclusive and which would reject the European Enlightenment model. It argues that Fanon proposes an ethics of recognition of difference within the postcolonial paradigm as the first step on the route to the new humanism. Through mutual recognition, subjectitivities are forged, and from this point a humanist vision is possible. Once mutual recognition has been accorded, it can lead to a collective ethics, argues Fanon. Finally, Fanon calls for a shift in national consciousness—which ought not to stay confined to the `national'. Fanon proposes that `oppressed peoples join up with peoples who are already sovereign if a humanism that can be considered valid is to be built to the dimensions of the universe' in what is surely a universalism.

Negotiating Growth: The Self and Nation in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come

-- Ogaga Okuyade

The spatial and temporal location of more than half of The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is Kalimpong and the period of Gorkhaland agitation in the 1980s. It is against the backdrop of a historical momentous event in the Darjeeling hills that the story of the retired Judge, Sai and Gyan unfolds. However, in the fabric of the story, history seems to serve a marginal purpose, merely providing the spatio-temporal coordinates for the development and dénouement of a love story. This paper proposes to critically examine the depiction of history in this novel in order to critique the author's treatment of a historical event as a function in the story, ignoring its independent importance in the political history of India and its impact on the everyday lives of the people involved in it. Also, a selective treatment of history leads to a stereotyping of India, where inane violence and rabble rousing demagogues lead the country to dogs. This paper argues that history is an organic entity that needs to be understood and absorbed first, before using it to further the plot of a novel as Desai does.

Return to Home: In Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Romesh Gunesekera’s The Sandglass

-- V Ranjani and Chitra Krishnan

The spatial and temporal location of more than half of The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is Kalimpong and the period of Gorkhaland agitation in the 1980s. It is against the backdrop of a historical momentous event in the Darjeeling hills that the story of the retired Judge, Sai and Gyan unfolds. However, in the fabric of the story, history seems to serve a marginal purpose, merely providing the spatio-temporal coordinates for the development and dénouement of a love story. This paper proposes to critically examine the depiction of history in this novel in order to critique the author's treatment of a historical event as a function in the story, ignoring its independent importance in the political history of India and its impact on the everyday lives of the people involved in it. Also, a selective treatment of history leads to a stereotyping of India, where inane violence and rabble rousing demagogues lead the country to dogs. This paper argues that history is an organic entity that needs to be understood and absorbed first, before using it to further the plot of a novel as Desai does.

The Tourist

-- Jerome Teelucksingh

-- Volga (Translator GRK Murty)

Vimukta (The Liberated)

-- Cyril Dabydeen

Laughing Lepers (after George Barker);

History’s Moment;

Canecutter’s Mandolin

-- Tanure Ojaide


A Walk in the Rain;

Thank You

-- Baran Farooqi

Stoking the Fire: A Conversation with Urdu Woman Poet Bilqees Zafirul Hasan

 

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Automated Teller Machines (ATMs): The Changing Face of Banking in India

Bank Management
Information and communication technology has changed the way in which banks provide services to its customers. These days the customers are able to perform their routine banking transactions without even entering the bank premises. ATM is one such development in recent years, which provides remote banking services all over the world, including India. This paper analyzes the development of this self-service banking in India based on the secondary data.

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing a very important role in the progress and advancement in almost all walks of life. The deregulated environment has provided an opportunity to restructure the means and methods of delivery of services in many areas, including the banking sector. The ICT has been a focused issue in the past two decades in Indian banking. In fact, ICTs are enabling the banks to change the way in which they are functioning. Improved customer service has become very important for the very survival and growth of banking sector in the reforms era. The technological advancements, deregulations, and intense competition due to the entry of private sector and foreign banks have altered the face of banking from one of mere intermediation to one of provider of quick, efficient and customer-friendly services. With the introduction and adoption of ICT in the banking sector, the customers are fast moving away from the traditional branch banking system to the convenient and comfort of virtual banking. The most important virtual banking services are phone banking, mobile banking, Internet banking and ATM banking. These electronic channels have enhanced the delivery of banking services accurately and efficiently to the customers. The ATMs are an important part of a bank’s alternative channel to reach the customers, to showcase products and services and to create brand awareness. This is reflected in the increase in the number of ATMs all over the world. ATM is one of the most widely used remote banking services all over the world, including India. This paper analyzes the growth of ATMs of different bank groups in India.
International Scenario

If ATMs are largely available over geographically dispersed areas, the benefit from using an ATM will increase as customers will be able to access their bank accounts from any geographic location. This would imply that the value of an ATM network increases with the number of available ATM locations, and the value of a bank network to a customer will be determined in part by the final network size of the banking system. The statistical information on the growth of branches and ATM network in select countries.

Indian Scenario

The financial services industry in India has witnessed a phenomenal growth, diversification and specialization since the initiation of financial sector reforms in 1991. Greater customer orientation is the only way to retain customer loyalty and withstand competition in the liberalized world. In a market-driven strategy of development, customer preference is of paramount importance in any economy. Gone are the days when customers used to come to the doorsteps of banks. Now the banks are required to chase the customers; only those banks which are customercentric and extremely focused on the needs of their clients can succeed in their business today.

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