Volume 10, No. 2 – 2010

Articles

• In Praise of her: Gender, Nation-ness and Panegyric, Early Manipravalam as Performative Practice by PRIYA V. Posted in: Sexualities, Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: In this article a reading of early Manipravalam literature of Keralam as a performative practice is attempted. Tracing out from the texts two historical milieus where praise poems in the hybrid tongue were performed, there is a search to… Continue Reading
• Sexualities at work: Unraveling the body myth in the Kannagi Narratives by SEETHA VIJAYAKUMAR Posted in: Sexualities, Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: This article analyses how Kannagi as a symbol of chastity originated and acquired meaning; the relationship between chastity and body, its patriarchal representation in Śilappadikāram and understand the problematic working of female sexuality as a patriarchy-defined system in the… Continue Reading
• Transcending Masculinities and Gendered Paradigms of Parenthood: Viṣnucitta’s Tirupallāndu and Periyālvār Tirumoḷi. by UMA UNNIKRISHNAN Posted in: Sexualities, Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: Religious texts and ritual practices have been equal participants in creating cultural narratives that define the mosaic of a society, sometimes subversively so. These elements are alternately causative in the creation of the paradigm of emotion that locate the… Continue Reading
• Memoir and the Erotic: A Reading of Atmakathaikku oru Aamugham (Preface to an Autobiography)and Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman by SREEDEVI SANTHOSH Posted in: Sexualities, Life writing, Articles Abstract: The articulation of sexuality within the malayala brahmana community is interspersed with the narrative representation of it in memoirs. Memories of everyday inconspicuousness of the Antherjanam considered “asuryampashyakal”, their semantics of appearance, elaborate ritualistic seclusion (ghosha) within the confines… Continue Reading
• Audre Lorde: Reading beyond Queer’dom by DEEPTI PARANGOT Posted in: Sexualities, Articles Abstract: Audre Lorde is a Black lesbian writer and a cancer survivor. Lorde uses the erotic as a tool to expose the hypocrisy in the white male heterosexual world that pronounces the “unexpressed and unrecognised” identities as pornography. This linguistic… Continue Reading
• Mary Oliver’s Poems —Holistic Celebrations of Female Sexuality by K. USHA Posted in: Sexualities, Articles Abstract: This paper intends to examine some representative poems of Mary Oliver which critique the andro-anthropocentric assumptions about Woman and Nature. Her poems are centred on the celebration of both the sexuality of woman and the richness of Nature which… Continue Reading
• The Making of a Queer icon by LITTY JOSEPH Posted in: Sexualities, Articles Abstract: This essay analyses Nijinsky as a dancer with his ballet performances and the diary. The continuous use of queer themes in the ballet theatre is studied. Did the ballet performances really change Nijinsky the man to Nijinsky the queer?… Continue Reading
• Housewives in sex Trade — a Desperate Strategy to save Their Household: A Study of Housewives of Industrial Workers by HARASANKAR ADHIKARI Posted in: Sexualities, Articles Abstract: The present paper examines the household economy of industrial workers (male) after retrenchment from their work due to lock out and lay off industries suddenly. They were victims of union unrest and false sense of security for compensation. After… Continue Reading
• A World without men by K. SARASWATHY AMMA Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Articles K. Saraswathy Amma (1919 - 1975) K. Saraswathy Amma was a prolific Malayalam writer, who if alive today, would have been an Amazon striding the world of Malayalam literature. Unfortunately, her literary outpourings, published between 1938 and 1958, were ahead… Continue Reading

Fiction

• RUKUNA by KRISHNA CHARAN BEHERA Posted in: Fiction   You might have seen her regularly. She comes at about eight or nine in the morning. She comes with her hesitant and slow pace. She carries a basket or a tin box under her arm. That basket or tin… Continue Reading
• The Darkest blue by K. R. MEERA Posted in: Fiction The experience of love that I’m going to describe is the strangest. So here’s an advance warning: chaste wives (in the satisavitri mould) and strictly monogamous men (in the maryaadaapurushottam mould) are advised against reading this account. I will not… Continue Reading
• Tommy /me by SREEBALA K. MENON Posted in: Fiction Our love overflowed with romance, burned intense and youthful. Just the way Grand’ad Basheer, the master storyteller1, imagined it to be. However, the story wasn’t without a few amendments. I wasn’t Kesavan Nair. Neither was she Saramma. Instead, she was… Continue Reading
• Mother Mary and 20th Century fox by TEJASWI MURALI Posted in: Fiction I was wandering about in my timeless world of happiness in heaven when angel Gabriel approached me. She gave me a task, the same task that I had performed back when I was in my living state, on earth. She… Continue Reading

Drama

• The Other side of the door by BETSY PAUL C. Posted in: Drama Characters Renu : a nineteen year old girl, extremely interesting and attractive, than beautiful. Man : a six pack TDH (tall, dark, handsome) twenty six year old. Two strangers : in their thirties Renu’s father : in his late forties… Continue Reading