The IUP Journal of English Studies

Volume 20, Issue 2, April-June 2025

ISSN :0973-3728

Impact Factor: 2.33; Acceptance rate: 15%; Turnaround time: 2-2 1/2 years

A 'peer reviewed' journal indexed on Scopus (Elsevier Group) and UGC-CARE List Group-II, and also included in EBSCO and ProQuest (Part of Clarivate) 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.

Focus Areas

  • British Literature   |  
  • American Literature   |  
  • Commonwealth Literature   |  
  • Indian Writing in English   |  
  • English Language Teaching   |  
  • Comparative Literature   |  
  • Translation Studies   |  

Current Issue

Volume 20, Issue 2, April-June 2025
Displacement and Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Author: Komal and Devendra Kumar Sharma

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.5-18

Keywords: Displacement, Trauma, Culture, Alienation, Homeland, Hostland, Diaspora communities

Revisiting Epistemic Injustice: Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Author: Sheetal Devi and Vandana Sharma

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.19-29

Keywords: Hermeneutical injustice, Testimonial injustice, Biopolitical, Global environmental catastrophes and nutmeg

Gendered Childhood: Conflict, Agency and Cross-Dressing in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Victory Song and Ranjit Lal’s The Battle for No. 19

Author: Sapna Desai

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.30-44

Keywords: New Indian women, Gender, Children’s literature, Cross-dressing, Feminist literature

Subjects of Story: Women’s Voices and Storytelling in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Author: Harsha A U S and Aysha Swapna K A

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.45-52

Keywords: Storytelling, Polyphony, Feminism, Women’s voices, Subjectivity

Tagore’s Chokher Bali: An Exposition of Binodini’s Mental Landscape

Author: Farhana Yeasmin and Munibur Rahman

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.53-66

Keywords: Binodini’s dynamism, Controlling capacity, Mental landscape, Orthodox society, Self-restraint

Wombs for Rent: Reproductive Labor and Capitalism in Amulya Malladi’s A House for Happy Mothers

Author: Suganya C and Vijayakumar M**

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.67-77

Keywords: Bio-economical exploitation, Commodification of womb, Intended parents, Marxism, Surrogate mothers, SRA, 2021

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Indian Nationalism and Culture: A Postcolonial Perspective

Author: Shweta Saxena

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.78-88

Keywords: Hegemony, National education, Religion, Hinduism, Passive resistance

Multimodal Mediations in Traversing Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

Author: Tania Mary Vivera

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.89-95

Keywords: Multimodality, Multimodal novels, Cognitive dissonance, Cognitive narratology, Postmodern narrative labyrinth

Women’s Voices in Kabir’s Oral and Performative Traditions in North India

Author: Veeru Rajbhar, Sanjay Kumar and Ajit K Mishra

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.96-113

Keywords: Kabir-singing, Kabirpanth, Oral traditions, Performative traditions, Women singers

What Makes Indian Campus Fiction a Bestselling Genre: An Exploration of Its Language and Themes

Author: Rima Namhata

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.114-152

Keywords: Indian campus fiction, Theme framework analysis, Bestsellers, Language-use, Themes

Archives


Volume 20, Issue 1, March 2025
Fleshy Bodies and Citizenship: Towards an Inclusive Gendered Citizenship in India

Author: Lisa Thomas

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.5-19

Keywords: Gendered citizenship, Transgender identity, Dalit identity, Situated citizenship, The body

‘Doing Gender’ in Contemporary Indian Picturebooks

Author: Aditi Joshi and Devjani Ray

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.20-38

Keywords: Gender, Performativity, Masculinity, Femininity, Picturebooks

‘Troubled’ Masculinity in Heteronormative Societies: A Study of Androgyny in Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man

Author: Suraj Das

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.39-44

Keywords: Androgyny, Femininity, Heteronormativity, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Psychology

Recontextualizing Honor and Shame: A Theoretical Perspective of Perumal Murugan’s Pyre

Author: Ayesha M I

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.45-54

Keywords: Honor, Shame, Affect theory, Posthumanism, Cultural trauma theory, Social death theory, Biopolitics, Honor-based violence, Perumal Murugan

Subaltern Subjectivity on Silver Screen: Dalit Voices in Jai Bhim and Article 15

Author: Sucharita Sharma and Ankita Choudhary

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.55-70

Keywords: Agency, Anti-caste; Brahminism; Cinema; Constitutional Rights; Dalit; Subaltern; Law and Judiciary; Marginalized

Protest as a Byproduct of Trauma: A Reading of Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja

Author: Rama Chandra Krisani and Chittaranjan Bhoi

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.71-81

Keywords: Trauma, Protest, Exploitation, Resilience, Indigenous

Tales of Trauma and Memory in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess and Mari Selvaraj’s Pariyerum Perumal

Author: S Maria Bridget Jenitta and Martha Karunakar

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.82-97

Keywords: Novel and film, Marginalized literature, Trauma and memory, Dynamics of power, Resistance, Retaliation

Navigating Trauma: Kishwar Desai’s Witness the Night as a Therapeutic Guide for Trauma Survivors

Author: Dhruvee Sinha and Zeeshan Ali

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.98-111

Keywords: Narrative therapy, Trauma survivors, Psychotherapy, Child abuse

The Wound That Never Heals: A Personal Narrative of Trees in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

Author: Samikshya Pattnaik

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.112-117

Keywords: Trauma, Identity, War, Memory, History, Fig tree

Navigating the Labyrinth: Trauma and Memory in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Nathan Hill’s The Nix

Author: Ananya Chand

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.118-128

Keywords: Trauma, Memory, Identity, Contemporary American literature, Narrative identity theory, Empathy

Exploring the South Asian Experience of Migration, Adaptation and Memory in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Author: Gunja Patni and Rimika Singhvi

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.129-142

Keywords: Adaptation, Border, Diaspora, Memory, Migration, State

Framing and Unframing the Divide: Analyzing the Representation and Softening of the India-Pakistan Mental Border in Popular Narratives

Author: Priyanka Bisht

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.143-155

Keywords: 1947 Partition, India-Pakistan borders, Cultural narratives, Contemporary South Asia, Film and poetry, Cross-border empathy

Archiving the Present: A Reading of William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy

Author: Anu S

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.156-161

Keywords: Historical narrative, Capitalist imperialism, Corporate, Presence

‘Let Me Live’: Posthuman Futurity in Nnedi Okorafor’s LaGuardia

Author: Saba Sangeen and Jaya Shrivastava

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.162-170

Keywords: Africanfuturism, Posthumanism, Black posthumanism, Afrofuturism, Speculative fiction

Assessing Higher-Order Thinking Skills Among Engineering English Learners Through Self-Made YouTube Video Creation

Author: M Sarppa Raje and R S Swarnalakshmi

Published Online: March, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.171-188

Keywords: Higher-order thinking skills, Engineering English, YouTube video creation, Pedagogical innovation, Technical English, Assessment of HOTS