Theological Epigraph and the Idea of Inclusive Love “I will call them my people,which were not my people;and her beloved,which was not beloved.”— ROMANS 9:25 Toni Morrison, American novelist, quoted the above given epigraph of her novel Beloved (1987) from the New Testament; the King James translation of Romans 9:25. The apostle Paul is talking … Read more
M.K. Gandhi (Education / Childhood / Child Marriage / Learnings) Introduction: Gandhi’s Early Life and Education “I have already said that I was learning at the high school when I was married” comment on the given statement with reference to M.K Gandhi’s AutobiographyMahatma Gandhi, by name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, … Read more
About the Author: Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi novelist, poet, critic, and short story writer. He has penned more than 40 books but is best known for his autobiographical novel Akkarmashi published in 1984. It was translated into several Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi. He also wrote a critical work Towards an Aesthetics … Read more
Exorcism and Gothic Supernaturalism in Beloved “124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children” — Beloved (1987) is widely considered to be a modern take on the traditional Gothic literature. The novel, being a Gothic piece of work, is also a social document … Read more
Introduction I guess these men were more my female comrades than mere friends; my ‘thozis’ in fact. Doraisamy’s Early Life and Emotional Struggle Doraisamy, before becoming Revathi, was a perplexed transgender person who was in search of company for himself. As a human being, she was suffering from loneliness as he didn’t receive any comfort … Read more
Binodini Dasi life Binodini Dasi (1860–1941) actress and singer, was born in a suburb of Kolkata, inhabited mainly by sex-workers. Her family was poor and it is said to have been involved in prostitution. In her biography, she called herself a prostitute. She was married at the age of five, but later had no connection … Read more
Introduction: Salman Rushdie and the Novel Context Haroun and the sea of stories is a children book that is the fifth novel of Indian born-British American postcolonial author, Salman Rushdie. The novel, published in 1990, followed The Satanic Verses (1988). Fatwa and the Theme of Free Speech The significance of free speech is the crucial … Read more
Postmodern Fusion of Culture, Language, and Storytelling In Haroun and the sea of Stories, Rushdie fuses a mixture of pop-culture, literary references, Indo-Pakistani culturalisms, and imaginary people and places with a purpose of not only expressing profound social, political and religious ideas but also of emphasizing the importance of stories and storytelling in people’s lives. … Read more
Postcolonial Framework and Critical Interpretation The postcolonial critic Homi Bhabha argues that “Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses attempts to redefine the boundaries of the Western nation, so that the ‘foreignness of languages’ becomes the inescapable cultural condition for the enunciation of the mother tongue.” Strikingly, this description would fit Haroun and the sea of stories … Read more
Ambivalent Status of the Text Although written and marketed as a book for children, it falls within that category described by Zohar Shavit as text with an ‘ambivalent status’ that is a text written for both adults and children. These books’ multilayered structure is richer than even most ambivalent text: presented as an unthreatening children’ … Read more