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LV March 2021.Pdf A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies U.G.C. Care Approved Group II Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, ESJI, I2OR, CiteFactor, InfoBase Number 13 Volume 1 March 2021 www.literaryvoice.in Literary Voice A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies U.G.C. Care Approved Group II Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, ESJI, I2OR, Cite Factor, InfoBase 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) Prof. Himadri Lahiri (Kolkata) Reviewers Prof. Alpna Saini (Bathinda) Dr. Bhagyashree S. Varma (Mumbai) Prof. (Dr.) Annie John (Solapur) 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 II Journal ISSN 2277-4521 Indexed with Web of Science ESCI, Cosmos, ESJI, I2OR, CiteFactor, InfoBase Index Number 13 Volume 1 March 2021 RESEARCH PAPERS AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE Projections of Megalopolis' in J.G. Ballard's The Concentration City & Billennium Dr. Cenk Tan/8 Richard Yates's Young Hearts Crying : Chasing the Mirage Dr. Ravinder Singh/14 An Ecocritical Reading of Ursula K. Le Guin's Select Fictions Dr. M.Suresh Babu Dr. J. Michael Raj/20 Experiential Narratives: Contextualizing Black Feminist Standpoint in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Café Ms. Adishree Vats Dr. Anurag Kumar/26 The Blurred Dichotomy of Good and Evil: Community as a Chorus of Moral Voices in Toni Morrison's Sula Dr. Shahila Zafar/32 'The Phenomenology of the Spirit' in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl Dr. Sukanya Saha Ms. Vetriselvi G./37 Shylock v. Antonio: Socio-Legal Complexities in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Dr. Rakesh Nambiar/42 Albert Camus' Meursault-- A Panoramic View Ms. Samartha Shori/49 Interpreting the Colonial History of New Zealand's Racialized Subalterns: A Reading of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries Anu Alphons Sebastian/55 1 LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST Dissonance between Art and Religion in Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red Dr. Ihsan-ur-Rahim Malik/61 Harem Revisited: An Arab Feminist Writes Back Dr. Navdeep Kahol/67 Magic Realism and Waning Binaries in Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies Dr. Manmeet Kaur/72 INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Representation of Women in Anandamath and Gora: Redefining the Female Sphere Dr. Nakul Kundra/78 Contemporaneity of Rabindranath Tagore's Ideals of Rural Reconstruction and Ecological Harmony Ms. Brenda Coutinho/85 Changing Paradigms of Marital Relationships in the Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore and Gurdial Singh Mamta/90 Navigating the Self through Memory: A Spatial Discourse on the Trauma of Partition Chetna Karnani/98 Portrait of the Artist's Self in Ismat Chughtai's 'The Mole' and Kamala Das's 'The Flight' Anubhuti Vashist/104 Re-envisioning Nation through the Trajectory of Subnationalism: A Select Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man and Carl Muller's Trilogy Anindita Dutta/109 The Rhetoric of Body, Disease and Disability in Indira Goswami's Under the Shadow of Kamakhya Dr. Premila Swamy D Dr. Sanjay N. Shende/115 Verdant Verses: The Duality in Presenting 'Nature' as Illustrated through Indian Poetry Ms. Keerthi Moses/120 Mapping Bombay's “Dead Center” Through Architectural Narrative in Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis Ms. Tripti Soni/126 2 Rape and Trauma: A Study of Pinki Virani's Aruna's Story Dr. Sadaf Shah/131 Envisioning Multiculturalism in Lakshmi Raj Sharma's The Tailor's Needle Bhaskar Chettri Dr. Dhananjay Tripathi/138 Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out--A Critique of Crime Against Women Kanika Lakra/143 Singing Symbiocene: Eco-spirituality in the Poetry of Kabir and Bulleh Shah Rahul Kumar Dr. Bhumika Sharma/148 Rethinking Boundaries: Indian-Nepali Feminist Writing and Third World Feminism Dr. Rosy Chamling/156 LITERATURE OF THE DIASPORA Debunking the Myth of Postcolonial Indian Modernity in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide Amrit K. Samra/161 Socio-political Commentary and Existential Dilemma in Salman Rushdie's Quichotte Dr. Sandhya Tiwari/165 Interconnection of Food and Memory: An Appraisal of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Ms. Dipna/171 The Vicious Cycle of Violence and Feminist Discourse: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's “The Bats” and Shauna Singh Baldwin's “A Pair of Two Ears” Kalpana Pandey/176 The Duality of the Diasporic Identity in Anita Desai's Bye-Bye Blackbird Dr. Narinder K. Sharma/181 Mapping Home amid Shifting Spatialities in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West Shafayat Hussain Bhat Dr. Amandeep Singh/188 Diasporic Experience within the Framework of War and Terrorism: Reading Adib Khan's Spiral Road Dr. Ashoo Toor/194 Nationalism-Religion Dynamics in Asif Currimbhoy's The Captives Syed Foyez Ahmed Dr.Amzed Hossein/200 3 Cosmopolitanism in Sikhism and its Transmission among Different Generations of Diaspora: Exploring the Problematics in Harjit Atwal's British Born Desi Mrs. Sukhpreet Bhatia/206 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS Resistance to the Discourse of Subjugation: A Study of Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story Prof. Satnam Kour/213 Pure/Fallen: Understanding the Discursive Construction of Identity in Binodini Dasi's My Story and My Life as an Actress Prof. Tanu Gupta/219 Negotiating the Ambivalent Nature of Colonial Self-fashioning in the Autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Ms. Suroshikha Debnath/225 A Critique of A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits Yogesh Kumar Negi Dr. Surekha Dangwal/230 LITERATURE OF THE MARGINALISED Flight from Masculinity: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as a Transgender Tragedy Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli/236 Mapping Multiple Marginalities: Exploring the Muted Voices in Dalit Literature Dr. Bhushan Sharma/246 Distressing Realities: A Comparative Study of Manish Jha's Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women and the Mahabharata Ms. Parul Priya Dr. Anurag Kumar/251 Feminist Revisioning of Indian Mythology: Limning of Kavita Kane's Uruvi in Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen Asmita Kaushik/257 Transgressing Cultural Taboos: A Study of Nalini Jameela's The Autobiography of a Sex Worker Dr. Ritika Agnihotri/264 Exploring Gender Fluidity in Amrutha Patil's Kari Dr. Geetanjali Rathore/268 4 SCIENCE FICTION Liminal Heterotopias in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Series Dr. Martha Thindle Karunakar/273 Water Deficit and Hyper-Commodification in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife S. Priya Dharsini/280 CHILDREN LITERATURE A/Cross(-ing of) Borders: An Analysis of Gene Lang Yuen's American Born Chinese Asha Baby Mathews/287 The Success Secrets of Mayil in Mayil Series–An Analysis through Rogerian Lenses D. Nithyasree/295 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Cultural Diversity Through Localised English Language in Selected Indo-Pak English Novels Dr. Ayesha Ashraf Humera Shareef/301 A Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Ellipsis in James Joyce's Dubliners and Ulysses Muhammad Ajmal Rida Rehman/308 Problems, Concerns and Remedies in English Language Teaching and Learning : A Case Study of Uttarakhand Dr. H. S. Randhawa/317 INTERVIEWS WITH WRITERS An Interview with Kavita Kane Dr. Uma Bhushan/330 A Dialogue with the Debutant Novelists--Vikram Singh Deol and Parneet Jaggi Dr. Jernail Singh Anand/334 LITERARY DISCOURSE PROF. HARISH NARANG/339 Creativity and Critiquing are Ethical Questions/Dimensions PROF. SWARAJ RAJ/343 Hope is an Imperative: Humankind: A Hopeful History 5 POETRY Ms. Bipasha Mazumder De/347 Six Haikus Dr. Supriya Bhandari/348 Shifting Camouflage Dr. K. Suneetha/349 In this small, unnoticed corner… Believing in Your Love for Me! Dr. Mehnaz/351 The Powerful Desire Swarnjit Savi/353 The Pyre of Notes The Hacked Man BOOK REVIEWS Basavaraj Naikar. The Queen of Kittur, Bloomington & New Delhi: Partridge Publication. 2019. Rs. 495, Pp.361 Prof. Mohan Ramanan/357 Rajinder Lehri. Arstu De Kaav Shastar Di Navin Parhhat (New Reading of Aristotle's The Poetics) Gracious Books, Patiala: 2018. Rs. 175, Pp. 106 Prof. Tejinder Kaur/359 Poetic World of Narendra Mohan: Selected Poems (Tr. Prof. Seema Jain) Authors Press, New Delhi: 2020. Rs.295, Pp.154 Dr. Renu Gupta/363 Susheel Kumar Sharma. Unwinding Self—An Anthology of Poems Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, Cuttack: 2020. Rs. 250, Pp. 152 Dr. Parneet Jaggi/366 www.literaryvoice.in 6 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Consequent upon lockdowns, dislocations and confinements caused by Covid-19, life in the current scenario is not what it used to be. It has lost rhythm and regularity. The regularity of the Literary Voice has been affected. March 2020 edition of the journal got so much inordinately delayed that September 2020 edition per force had to be skipped. Currently we place in your hands Literary Voice March 2021 which comprises critical interrogations of literary texts from English, American, Afro-American, Black-British, Australian, New Zealand, African, Turkish, Omanian, Indian, Pakistani, Egyptian, Nepalese and Children literatures. Fifty-three research papers interrogate thematic, linguistic and theoretical concerns that range from the feminist revisionist mythology in literature and cinema through the prism of marginalization and queerness-to the complex dimensions of transgender phenomenon-to Phenomenology of the Spirit-to the dystopian vision about the future of urban development and-to the African American women's resistance against institutionalized sexism, racism, marginalization and invisibility and the failure of the American dream. The flawed narratives of Eurocentric colonial history of New Zealand which ignore the momentous role played by the immigrants and the natives, comes in for critical scrutiny.
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