Review of the Contributions of a Major Thinker This issue of Samyukta highlights the contributions of RabindranathTagore Rabindranath Tagore has created myriads of women in his short-stories, dramas and novels. But they cannot be said to represent his ideal woman…
Abstract: The article attempts to analyse the intricacies of the mother -daugher relationship in the fiction of prominent Marathi women writers. Depiction of mothers and daughters in the fiction of Vibhavari Shirukar, Kamal Desai, Gauri Deshpande and Saniya are discussed…
Abstract: Fanfiction is an enormously popular genre with a niche audience. And this niche is growing bigger and wider as more and more people join fan communities. These communities establish their virtual presence through fan labor, and fanfiction is a…
Abstract: The American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, used her photographic skill to challenge the discourses concerned with prostitution. Through her female gaze she exposed the unseen world of prostitution in India. Her photos of the prostitutes of Kamathipura, exhibited the…
Abstract: Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl presents one of the most intelligently portrayed deranged heroines in recent times. She attains the tag of a Femme Fatale archetype. The classical Femme Fatales delved within the outline that conventional patriarchy and society had…
Abstract: This article attempts to elucidate the experience of fragmentation from the perspective of trauma studies, an offshoot of psychology. This study originates as an enquiry into psychic trauma, a phenomenon that one cannot locate exclusively within the domain of…
Abstract: This paper contends how the parameters of Dalitism and Dalit-feminism are differently defined vis-a-vis the crisis of occupation in Kashmir and may be in certain ways applied to the case of the women there. Sandwiched between the politics of…
Abstract: This article is a stylistic analysis of Arundhati Roy’s. The God of Small Things which attempts to assess the nature and incidence of linguistic deviations in Roy’s use of literary language, and also to determine their special effects in…
Ingrafting: A Response to the Theory of Interiorization This essay by the late Professor Krishna Rayan is perhaps the first published response to the concept of antassannivesha or interiorisation as it was being formulated. Abstract: This article looks closely…
Abstract: The essay examines interiorisation, a mode of textual exploration, which through a hermeneutical process enables us to effect entry into the interior of those literary works that, through word, sentence and metrical line, render palpable the bhava-artha-rasa born of…
Introduction: West Introduction: West It is by the late nineteenth century that women writers show an active presence in the field of Gujarati literature. For the earlier as well as the later women writers, the impulse…
These stories written in three regional languages are about concern, commitment, sensitization and negotiation. The narratives enshrine that inimitable nuance that women writers instill into their gendered scripting of their views and vision of the micro and macro spaces of…
