Drishti: the Sight Vol.VI, Issue: I (May, 2017 - October, 2017) ISSN 2319-8281 A REFEREED (PEER-REVIEWED) BI-ANNUAL NATIONAL RESEARCHCHCH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE/ASSAMESE LITERATURE/FOLKLORE /CULTURE Editor (Hon.) DR. DIPAK JYOTI BARUAH, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Jagiroad College(University of Gauhati) Members of Advisory Body Dr. Dayananda Pathak, Former Principal, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati, Assam Dr. Prabin Ch. Das, Former Head, Dept. of Folklore, University of Gauhati Dr. Biplab Chakraborty, Professor, Centre for Advanced Studies, Dept of Bengali, Burdwan University Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak, Associate Professor in English, Khallikote University, Odisha Dr. Manash Pratim Borah, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Arunachal Pradesh Members of Editorial Body Dr. Lakshmi Das Pathak, Associate Professor, Dept. of Assamese, LCB College (University of Gauhati) Dr. Angshuman Das, Associate Professor, Dept. of Assamese, Moirabari College(University of Gauhati) Pranjal Dutta, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Sarupathar College(University of Dibrugarh) Dr. Nizara Hazarika, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Sonapur College(University of Gauhati) Dr. Praveen Kumar Anshuman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Kirori Mal College (University of Delhi) Dr. Durga Prasad Dash, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, KIIT University (Odisha) Address for correspondence: Dr. Dipak Jyoti Baruah, Associate Professor, Dept.of English, Jagiroad College, Jagiroad-782410, Assam, India; Cell: 09854369647; E-mail: [email protected]/[email protected] Our website : www.drishtithesight.com Drishti: the Sight Vol.VI, Issue: I (May, 2017 - October, 2017) ISSN 2319-8281 A REFEREED (PEER-REVIEWED) BI-ANNUAL NATIONAL RESEARCHCHCH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE/ASSAMESE LITERATURE/FOLKLORE /CULTURE (A NON-PROFIT VENTURE DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH PARTICULARLY AMONG THE YOUNG SCHOLARS OF THE NATION) Published by : Ms. Rupjyoti Goswami Editor (Hon.): Dr. Dipak Jyoti Baruah Price : # Single: Rs. 600/- # One Year Subscription: Rs. 1200/- (Price includes commissioning and postage charges) Printed at : Sri Ganesh Printers, Noonmati, Guwahati-781020 DISCLAIMER:The responsibility of the facts, quotations made, opinions expressed or conclusions arrived at is entirely that of the authors of the articles and neither the Editor, nor the Publisher or any of the Members of the Editorial and the Advisory Bodies accepts any responsibility for them. Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- VI No.-I, May, 2017 # 2 Drishti: the Sight Vol.VI, Issue: I (May, 2017 - October, 2017) CONTENTS : Editorial # 05 : Literary Translations and Translator's Predicament in the Context of Globalization # Biswanath Das # 7 : Translating Kabir: Textualizations, Interpretations and Appropriations in the Colonial Context # Manoj Kumar Yadav #13 : The Single Independent Working Woman in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe # Nimi Biswakarma # 20 : Nature and the Great War : An Ecocritical Reading of The Palace of Illusions # Porosha Sonowal # 26 : A Postcolonial Critique of Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines # Narayan Ch. Gahatraj # 30 : MAKING INDIA AWESOME : Literary Perspectives # Kalikinkar Pattanayak # 36 : Journey from Past to Present: The Book of Secrets # Subhash Verma # 41 : ’¸˜œ˚˛± ø˙q-fl¡ø¬ıÓ¬± – ¤fl¡ ø¬ıÀ˙°¯∏̱Rfl¡ ’Ò…˚˛Ú # 1n∏fl≈¡Ú≈øVÚ ’±˝√√À˜√ # 49 : ¸”˚« fl≈¡˜±1 ˆ¬”¤û±1 ·äÓ¡ ˜±Úªœ˚˛ ‘ø©Üˆ¡—·œ # 1œÌ± Œ˜øÒ # 58 : Úœ˘˜øÌ Ù≈¬fl¡Ú1 fl¡ø¬ıÓ¬±Ó¬ ø‰¬Sfl¡ä¬ı±√ – ¤øȬ ¬Û˚«±À˘±‰¬Ú± # ÚøµÓ¬± Œ√ªœ√ # 62 Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- VI No.-I, May, 2017 # 3 Images of the covers of our past issues Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- VI No.-I, May, 2017 # 4 EDITORIAL Postmodern Aesthetic and the Fabric of Indian Literature The contemporary Indian literature- which is a composite term to denote literatures in English, Hindi or in any regional language written in Indian soil, needs to crystallize a movement to keep pace with the latest diversity of trends in writing fictions manifested by the literature of the world as a whole. For example, there are a number of postmodern writers of novel who would create an ambience in their narrative where the real world may dissolve into a hyper-real (‘a real without origin or reality’: Baudrillard Jean). In Indian literature, there are not too many narratives written in this line. Although there is a feeling growing in the mind of the readers of the European mainstream literature that literature has already ‘used up’ the conventions of ‘fictional realism’, in the Indian literature, especially in its regional landscape, the feeling is not too sharp. Yet, work of the new genres like- which could make the reader feel the presence of a tension between reality and fiction, or a mode of construction which may reveal that there is indeed nothing in this life that can be ideologically constructed, too are slowly gaining ground. Since the readers and writers in India are being increasingly introduced to the gems of the world fictional literature that are written with an idiom and approach prompted by the postmodern trends (such as those written in terms of latest semiotics), there is emergence of a body of the turn- of- the- millennium readers of creative literature, - readers who follow the new trends and keep themselves updated with the essence of the various strands of postmodernism. This paradigm shift in taste must be encouraged by any means. Cultivation of such a new taste ought not to be regarded as something which may only be instrumental in quickening the ‘death’ of the certain forms of literature. For one thing, contrary to the popular belief, postmodernism in literature does not as such fundamentally separate itself from the overall current of the ‘heritage of literature’. All said and done, it is indeed just an extension from all the different ‘preceding’ movements of literature that through successive courses have culminated into the modernism. Postmodernism in literature has a broad textual or narrative universe. The essential which lends singularity to a postmodern kind of narrative is the fact that here the author consciously makes the world and /or the self ‘decentred’. It is significant to note that the postmodern narratives of Salman Rushdie, Timothy Mao and Garcia Marquez, to name a few, are being able to get warm receptions from among the Indian readers. A general characteristic of the texts of all very works by them is either displacement of the real or dissolving real to hyper-real, in which the decentring of the language plays an undeniably effective role. To say the least, the post modern text’s is an attempt to contextualize the ‘change’, ironically though, in a broader view, it does not besides mean any break with the modernism or with any other preceding literary movement. Getting rid of an arrogance or misconception about this ‘break’ could only do well for all our literature and therefore, the Indian literature- chiefly its ‘regional’ varieties must come out of any orthodoxy which it may still be nurturing against the practice of postmodern aesthetic of the literary realm. # Drishti : the Sight # Vol.- VI No.-I, May, 2017 # 5 CALL FOR PAPERS ON TOPICS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE/ ASSAMESE LITERATURE/ FOLKLORE / CULTURE For Drishti: the Sight (A PEER-REVIEWED NATIONAL JOURNAL) ISSN 2319-8281 Scholarly, unpublished papers are invited on any issue covered by Assamese literature/English literature/folklore/culture to the email address given below. Only accepted papers will be published after thoroughly reviewed by our experts. 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Women’s College (Odisha) ([email protected]) Translation is a creation, born in the process of a changed scenario