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LV March 2020 A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies U.G.C. Care Approved Group ‘A’ Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, E S JI, I2OR, Cit e F act or Number 12 Volume 1 March 2020 www.literaryvoice.in Literary Voice A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies U.G.C. Care Approved Group 'A' Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, ESJI, I2OR, Cite Factor Editor Dr. T.S. Anand Associate Editors Dr. Geeta Bhandari Dr. Charu Sharma Dr. Sumedha Bhandari Dr. Harbir Singh Randhawa Editorial Advisory Board Prof. Fakrul Alam (Bangladesh) Prof. John C. Hawley (U.S.A.) Prof. Harish C. Narang (New Delhi) Prof. K.B. Razdan (Jammu) Prof. Tejinder Kaur (Patiala) Prof. Pashupati Jha (Roorkee) Prof. Somdatta Mandal (Santiniketan) Prof. Swaraj Raj (Fatehgarh Sahib) Prof. Ashis Sengupta (Siliguri) Prof. Satnam K. Raina (Jammu) Reviewers Prof. Alpna Saini (Bathinda) Dr. Bhagyashree S. Varma (Mumbai) Dr. Roghayeh Farsi (Iran) Dr. Goksen Aras (Turkey) Dr. Alka Kumar (Canada) Dr. Bhumika Sharma (Ajmer) Dr. K.S. Purushothaman (Vellore) Dr. R.G. Kulkarni (Sangli) Literary Voice A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies U.G.C. Care Approved Group ‘A’ Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, ESJI, I2OR, Cite Factor Number 12 Volume 1 March 2020 RESEARCH ARTICLES “Community, Identity, Stability” in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Pooja Singal Dr. Tanu Gupta/6 Memory Revisited: Struggle and Survival in Sharon Pollock's Constance Dr. Papiya Lahiri/13 Debbie Tucker Greene's Narrative: Staging Identity, Silence and Testimony Dr. Tanya Mander/22 Annie Dillard' Dialectical Vision of Nature in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dr. Firas A. Nsaif Al Jumaili/31 Dystopia and Dehumanisation: A Critical Analysis of Lois Lowry's The Giver Sartaj Ahmad Lone/37 Gender, Norm and Disability: A Critical Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark Aparna/44 Cultural Imperialism in Native-American Fiction: A Critique of Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer Muhammad Yar Tanvir Dr. Ali Usman Saleem/50 Representation of Trauma in a Narrative: A Study in Relation to Toni Morrison's Beloved Bijendra Nath Das/58 Body-image and Racial Marginality in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Sandip Paul/65 The Unabated 'Silence': Reversal of the Hysterical Subject in Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient Swapna Roy/72 Beholding Herself: A Comparative Study of Major Women Characters of Bhabani Bhattacharya and Toni Morrison Mohit Kumar/80 An Evaluation of Liminality in Nadine Gordimer's July's People Murat Kabak/86 Self-Transforming Metamorphosis of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House Dr. Tanu Gupta/95 A Psycho-biographical Perspective of Kahlil Gibran's The Broken Wings Dr. Divya John/102 Orhan Pamuk's Snow: A Bloody Stage Tirna Sengupta/110 A Vampire like No Other: Exploring Psychological and Cultural Reality of the 'Unusual' Vampire in Suzee Mac Charnas' The Vampire Tapestry Dr. Kriti Kuthiala Kalia/117 Gebreyesus Hailu's The Conscript: An Eritrean Saga of Suffering Under the Colonial Set-up Dr. Harpreet Singh/125 Poetry as a Literary Device in Githa Hariharan's I Have Become the Tide Gurjeet Singh Dr. Alpna Saini/132 'Miraculous Heart of the Unknown': Sri Aurobindo's Rose of God Dr. Sarani Ghosal Mondal Dr. Goutam Ghosal/138 A Psychoanalytical Assessment of Khushwant Singh's Fictional Characters Dr. Sukanya Saha Ms. Saraswathy K./143 Machiavellian Lumpenproletariat in Mano Majra: Analysis of the Peasantry Portrayed in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan Janitha Ekanayake/151 Triumph of Humanity: A Comparative Reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Samaresh Basu's “Adaab” Mariyam Khatun/159 Revisiting Ezekiel's The Night of the Scorpion: A Freudian Reading Dr. Sumathi Shivakumar/166 Reading Indra Sinha's Animal's People as a Study in Eco Crime Dr. Ashoo Toor/172 North-South Cultural Divide: A Study of Chetan Bhagat's 2 States and its Cinematic Adaptation Dr. Sandhya Tiwari/179 Revisiting the Ramayana: Engagements with Liminality Dr. Bhumika Sharma Apoorvaa Singh/186 The Mahabharata and the Indian English Novel: Negotiating Narrative Strategies in The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Kavya Rajeev/198 The Poetics of Exile: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams Dr. Sumeet Brar/204 Reinventing Self-identity: The Rugged Path of Diaspora in the Poetry of Meena Alexander Sheba Elsa Jose/211 New Historicist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers Dr. Tania Bansal/218 Growing Up Through Deprived Childhood: Subaltern Child in Surviving in My World Dr. Utpal Rakshit/225 Subverting Ableism in Children's Literature in India: An Analysis of Zainab Sulaiman's Simply Nanju Dr. Debapriya Goswami/233 Rising Scepter of the Gaze: Surveillance from Literary to Online Space Dr. Neha Soi/240 Ecocide in Paradise: Eco-connect and the Anthropocene in Sarah Joseph's Gift in Green Sumedha Bhandari/248 Techniques to Improve English Communication for Enhancing Employability of Non-Native Speakers Dr. Asha Kaushik Dr. Nagendra Kumar/253 Adaptability of Google Classroom for Enhancement of the Language Proficiency of Rural Engineering Students Veena H.M. Dr. Shibily Nuaman/62 Digital Texts in Contemporary Times Dr. Kiran Arora/270 Reassessing Progress: A Study of Tripurari Sharma's Aadha Chand in the context of Globalisation and Displaced Identities Bhawna Singh/276 REVIEW ESSAY Garuda's World-View: Looking at Annie Zaidi's Prelude to a Riot Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma/285 FROM PROF. SWARAJ RAJ'S BOOKSHELF/289 Musings on Svetlana Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War BOOK REVIEWS C.N.Srinath. Australia, Canada and the Other. Dr. Basavaraj Naikar/294 POETRY COLUMN Dr. Parneet Jaggi/295 My Sky My Universe Monotony Epistles of Love C. Rosy/297 Move On My Poem, My Babe Dr. Sadaf Fareed/299 Once More To My Animus Neha Singh/302 Unnamed Heroes of Indenture: A Saga of Pain www.literaryvoice.in FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Literary Texts have always been analysed and interpreted in the context of “Poetics” extant. With the passage of time Aesthetics originating in certain geographical regions of the globe, are taken recourse to by the researchers for scrutinizing various genres of literature, past and present. In the process the tools of analysis attain universality, thereby enriching the critical canons across the continents. Literary Voice March 2020 edition is a modest extension of the critical inquiry directed at evaluating literary texts through the lenses of current tropes and theories. The present number comprises thirty seven research articles that focus on various streams and genres of British, Canadian, American, Native American, Afro-American, Lebanese-American, South African, Turkish, Eritrean, Diaspora, Indian English, Dalit and Children literatures, from the standpoints as varied as Nick Haslam's concept of dehumanization, Schiller's theory of cultural imperialism, Freudian psychology, Feminism, Existentialism, New Historicism and Marxian/Fanonian concept of lumpenproletariat. Ecological concerns, contested ideas of normal or normality, ethics that govern the 21st century ecological citizenship, contamination in contemporary multicultural national entities in the shape of prejudice, marginalization of voices, multiple identities and allegiances, ramifications of colonial rule and multifold methods of exploitation of the native populace, the dynamics of Indian society with its regional biases and the dystopic impulses inherent in the BPO culture, analysis of representation of trauma, and the vital existential dilemmas about happiness, progress and stability have been probingly interrogated. Besides, articles focusing on dilemmas of diaspora subjectivities; de-stigmatization of disability among children; memory aiding the distressed to a sane understanding of an irrational world; the cultural metaphor of the vampire being stripped of its supernatural baggage; the “gaps and silences” in the epic story, Mahabharata; the new possible paradigm of meaning-making in the ancient Indian classic, the Ramanaya against the backdrop of 'liminality' and rising scepter of surveillance over literary and online space have been critically evaluated. A couple of articles on ELT interrogate the methods and processes which help a learner to achieve better proficiency in the language through traditional and Google classroom teaching. Apart from varied critical responses to literary texts, March 2020 Number comprises a thought provoking scholarly write up by Prof. Swaraj Raj on 2015 Nobel Laureate, Svetlana Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War, an insightful review essay on Annie Zaidi's Prelude to a Riot by Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma and a Book Review by Prof. Basavaraj Naikar. Poetry Column introduces Dr. Parneet Jaggi, Dr. Sadaf Fareed, C. Rosy and Neha Singh, the vibrant new voices in Indian English Poetry. As usual we, in the Literary Voice, look forward to your feedback from the safe environs of home.. T. S. Anand http://www.literaryvoice.in Swaraj Raj/ Contemporary Trends in English Novel and Prose ... Literary Voice 2019/5 Pooja Singal/Dr. Tanu Gupta/“Community, Identity, Stability” in Literary Voice March 2020/6 “Community, Identity, Stability” in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Pooja Singal Research Scholar Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciiences Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed) University Mullana-Ambala (Haryana) India Email: [email protected] Tanu Gupta, Ph.D., Professor Dept of Liberal Arts and Humanities Chandigarh University Mohali (Punjab) India E.mail: [email protected] Abstract The term 'dystopia' is applied to the fiction which portrays a horrifying world with ominous tendencies leading to a disastrous future. Ironically, on the surface, life is utopian as in both the novels Brave New World and Oryx and Crake, but underneath everything is either corrupt and rotten as in Oryx and Crake, or sickeningly controlled and satisfied as in Brave New World. But both of them lack real happiness, humanity and real pleasure of living.
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