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Teaching Documents by Dr G M Joseph Dunston
Bibino Publishers, 2020
John Donne as a metaphysical poet
Papers by Dr G M Joseph Dunston
ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
Trauma is a foremost theme of contemporary literature. The term “post-traumatic stress disorder” ... more Trauma is a foremost theme of contemporary literature. The term “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD) found its existence in the 1980s, exploring the shattering effects of trauma on the victim. Traumatic mutism is one such psychological disorder characterised by the victim’s sudden inability to speak, following the trauma. The protagonist Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is subjected to the horror of incest at the age of seven. Overwhelmed by the incident, she locks herself in a private cage of self-imposed silence for four long years. Applying Jennifer Freyd’s “Betrayal Trauma Theory”, the article discusses the events that led to Maya’s silence. She is dumbstruck, fearing the repressive consequences of this pathetic predicament in the community. And to wriggle out of the present pathos, the post-traumatic symptoms, such as psychic numbing, withdrawal and mutism are adopted by the victim. The article further presents the importance of external sources that help the victim ...
ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
Empathy is the ability to recognise a person or object's posture, position, and feelings as o... more Empathy is the ability to recognise a person or object's posture, position, and feelings as one's own. People's involuntary projection or personal empathy into for an object or for a person is a great concern of humanity that must be addressed for the overall well-being of human existence in the modern world. People are enticed to embrace refined lifestyles with ultra-modern amenities as scientific and technical advances take centre-stage in this global village. In human life, it creates loneliness, distraction, barrenness, and alienation. In Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's protagonists Kathy (the clone) and Klara (the artificial intelligence) respectively feel personal empathy for their fellow humans. They are considered to be objects, capable of replacing decayed organs and broken relationships. Through a humanistic lens, this study compares human beings with mortal clones and chipped AIs, attempting to argue that they are generous enough to...
Modern Trends in Multidisciplinary Subjects
Literary Devices are specific narrative techniques that facilitate the writers to craft a fine pi... more Literary Devices are specific narrative techniques that facilitate the writers to craft a fine piece of literature These ornamental figures of speech transcend the scope of ordinary meanings and build up appealing aesthetics of deeper perspective and an emotional experience. The text becomes a powerful tool of transformation in the world. The article explores various stylistic devices employed in the text, such as symbols, allusions, paradoxes, foreshadowing, and so on. Keeping in mind the process of cognitive semantics the paper showcases, how these literary mechanisms interact with the minds of the readers in fixing the meaning of real-life contexts. It goes on to establish how the minds understand the everyday lived-in experience and evoke the instantaneous reflection of life and what it is to be human. The scrutiny of the linguistic devices brings home the point that African Americans should awake in the world of heaven they dream of and experience a harmonious coexistence .
BODHI JOURNAL, 2022
The term displacement has been widely employed in postcolonial studies, to refer to the physical ... more The term displacement has been widely employed in postcolonial studies, to refer to the physical or psychological transition faced by the colonised. Though Tagore's oeuvre was not influenced by the postcolonial discourse, his poem (Gitanjali 63) sheds light on the concept of place and displacement. He brings out the unpleasant side of displacement in the first few lines of the poem, extending an solution for the same in the latter lines. On the other hand, Psalm 84 is a hymn of pilgrimage, wherein the Psalmist considers himself as a mere traveller in this world. He sets himself free from the pain of feeling/being displaced in this world by choosing not to draw his identity from the temporal things of this world. Both these works bring home a similar fact: a man who has found his 'home' in an eternal being, i.e., God, can never be/feel displaced in this world.
Multidisciplinary research Trends- Volume 3
The article examines how the protagonist, Celie's journey towards emancipation is portrayed in th... more The article examines how the protagonist, Celie's journey towards emancipation is portrayed in the novel The Color Purple. Alice Walker fictionalizes the journey of Celie on the lines of the genre of Bildungsroman. It depicts how she overcomes all the patriarchal oppression and evolves as a mature woman at the end. Alice Walker, in her epistolary novel, discusses the problems encountered by black women on their road to self-love and independence. By applying the descriptive qualitative approach, the article uses the concept of womanism. To delineate how the new black woman is gradually formed to great awakening and emancipation. Walker expands this novel as a tool to give voice to the oppressed black woman and constructs the way for them to get empowered and emancipated. The entire narrative focuses on the life of Celie, who is sexually abused, and how she struggles to achieve a sense of self-hood. The letters, written to God by Celie, reflect that there is a ray of hope for independence. The semi-biographical story evokes pity in the readers and the tale also records the endurance of Celie through all the difficulties and how she emerges as a victorious model. The female bonding and sisterhood she gets from Nettie, Sofia, and Shug Avery makes Celie break from male domination and begins to establish fruitful networking among the female relationship.
Multidisciplinary Recent Trends
Recent Trends in Multi-Disciplinary Subjects
The Cardinal objective of this analysis is an exploration of the Survival Consciousness and Justi... more The Cardinal objective of this analysis is an exploration of the Survival Consciousness and Justice as a dominant concern in Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby (1981). Generally, in the context of the discriminatory practices and segregation of the blacks by the whites, blacks resorted to varied strategies to sustain their existence among the whites. This paper examines how the white hegemony instils in the black survival, the desire for the magic white touch or even a seductive life. In total oblivion of their black cultural roots, Morrison outlines how the black woman is seen struggling to achieve her 'alien dreams' which were subtly ingrained in her. In addition, the novel is also an appropriate example of how the blacks accepted subordination for their survival. Another major achievement of Morrison in the novel is the exploration of the possibilities of a fulfilling man-woman relationship in the background of race and culture. By placing her novel in the ambience of two almost simultaneous movements, "Black is Beautiful" and "The Woman Liberation Movement", Morrison continues to probe the issue of meaningful survival and coexistence. The survival pangs of nature amid rampant exploitation and juxtaposed with the issue of the survival of black culture. Toni Morrison also depicts the struggle between nature and civilisation as a metaphor for the struggle between Black and White cultures. The quest for identity is tortured in the body, mind and spirit, and the black woman's struggles in a world where gender discrimination is not a deviation but a norm. Yet the characters reach their fullest potential and development within the boundaries of their community. Thus, from an overall perspective, this exploration carefully examines the impact of these racial differences on the survival process and the search for female subjectivity.
International Journal of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, 2022
Literature becomes a global experience, when it transcends nation-state boundaries, by crossing t... more Literature becomes a global experience, when it transcends nation-state boundaries, by crossing the limits of language, culture, and ethnicity. And thus it becomes transnational in its nature by crossing the borders and moving beyond nations, recognising differences as well as points of connection between cultures and contexts. One of the most extensive and predominant modes of oppression existing in our society is women's subjugation. No matter whatever may be the difference exists in between nations, the plight of women are always the same, being the worst forebears of social injustice, mainly evolved out of their gender identity. The history of women's lives, all over the world, like the traumatically colonized subjects, have been relegated to the position of the "demonic other", "marginalized" and in a metaphorical sense, their lives get crumbled in the hands of male supremacy. In this context, being always relegated to an inferior position, and always referred to as 'a damsel in distress', the term 'subaltern' gets ideally fits in with their position in the world. And this kind of marginalisation exists in the lives of Black women in America as well as the Dalit women in the Indian subcontinent. The resemblance between these two sections who belong to two entirely different yet far-reaching nations is in the fact that they are constantly undergoing a tug of war with this triple subjugation of caste or race, gender, and class. This paper scrutinizes how transnationalism paved the way for the emergence of Dalit feminist writings by taking inspiration from American Black womanism.
Smart Moves Journal Ijellh, Oct 28, 2022
Multidisciplinary Research, 2021
The core of the article analyses the theory of structuralism through the patterns of society and ... more The core of the article analyses the theory of structuralism through the patterns of society and how structural anthropology got evolved. Structuralism was born as a reaction to modernist 'alienation and despair'. Therefore, it is a way of looking for reality in the relationship of the humans. As a philosophy and linguistic analysis, it lends itself to the empirical enterprise. The structuralist interconnects the language system and the social system. Saussurean structural linguistics defines language as a system of relations. Saussurean concept of 'Langue and Parole' aligns with Noam Chomsky's 'Competence and Performance'. Saussurean language as a system of relations is conveyed through signs and semiology as a science, studies the life of signs within the society. From Saussurean linguistics, Claude Levi-Strauss launches into structural anthropology. For his analysis, he uses marriage rules, cultural behaviours, methods of cooking, totemic myths and so on. From these cultural constructs in general, he institutes structural anthropology braced up by incest, its prohibition rules and analysis of myths. The legends of Holy Grail and Buddha too come in handy to prove his claim. To conclude, through a semantic system of structural anthropology, he proclaims that the institution of marriage becomes a system of communication, a linguistic system.
Bibino Publishers, 2020
John Donne as a metaphysical poet
ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
Trauma is a foremost theme of contemporary literature. The term “post-traumatic stress disorder” ... more Trauma is a foremost theme of contemporary literature. The term “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD) found its existence in the 1980s, exploring the shattering effects of trauma on the victim. Traumatic mutism is one such psychological disorder characterised by the victim’s sudden inability to speak, following the trauma. The protagonist Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is subjected to the horror of incest at the age of seven. Overwhelmed by the incident, she locks herself in a private cage of self-imposed silence for four long years. Applying Jennifer Freyd’s “Betrayal Trauma Theory”, the article discusses the events that led to Maya’s silence. She is dumbstruck, fearing the repressive consequences of this pathetic predicament in the community. And to wriggle out of the present pathos, the post-traumatic symptoms, such as psychic numbing, withdrawal and mutism are adopted by the victim. The article further presents the importance of external sources that help the victim ...
ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
Empathy is the ability to recognise a person or object's posture, position, and feelings as o... more Empathy is the ability to recognise a person or object's posture, position, and feelings as one's own. People's involuntary projection or personal empathy into for an object or for a person is a great concern of humanity that must be addressed for the overall well-being of human existence in the modern world. People are enticed to embrace refined lifestyles with ultra-modern amenities as scientific and technical advances take centre-stage in this global village. In human life, it creates loneliness, distraction, barrenness, and alienation. In Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's protagonists Kathy (the clone) and Klara (the artificial intelligence) respectively feel personal empathy for their fellow humans. They are considered to be objects, capable of replacing decayed organs and broken relationships. Through a humanistic lens, this study compares human beings with mortal clones and chipped AIs, attempting to argue that they are generous enough to...
Modern Trends in Multidisciplinary Subjects
Literary Devices are specific narrative techniques that facilitate the writers to craft a fine pi... more Literary Devices are specific narrative techniques that facilitate the writers to craft a fine piece of literature These ornamental figures of speech transcend the scope of ordinary meanings and build up appealing aesthetics of deeper perspective and an emotional experience. The text becomes a powerful tool of transformation in the world. The article explores various stylistic devices employed in the text, such as symbols, allusions, paradoxes, foreshadowing, and so on. Keeping in mind the process of cognitive semantics the paper showcases, how these literary mechanisms interact with the minds of the readers in fixing the meaning of real-life contexts. It goes on to establish how the minds understand the everyday lived-in experience and evoke the instantaneous reflection of life and what it is to be human. The scrutiny of the linguistic devices brings home the point that African Americans should awake in the world of heaven they dream of and experience a harmonious coexistence .
BODHI JOURNAL, 2022
The term displacement has been widely employed in postcolonial studies, to refer to the physical ... more The term displacement has been widely employed in postcolonial studies, to refer to the physical or psychological transition faced by the colonised. Though Tagore's oeuvre was not influenced by the postcolonial discourse, his poem (Gitanjali 63) sheds light on the concept of place and displacement. He brings out the unpleasant side of displacement in the first few lines of the poem, extending an solution for the same in the latter lines. On the other hand, Psalm 84 is a hymn of pilgrimage, wherein the Psalmist considers himself as a mere traveller in this world. He sets himself free from the pain of feeling/being displaced in this world by choosing not to draw his identity from the temporal things of this world. Both these works bring home a similar fact: a man who has found his 'home' in an eternal being, i.e., God, can never be/feel displaced in this world.
Multidisciplinary research Trends- Volume 3
The article examines how the protagonist, Celie's journey towards emancipation is portrayed in th... more The article examines how the protagonist, Celie's journey towards emancipation is portrayed in the novel The Color Purple. Alice Walker fictionalizes the journey of Celie on the lines of the genre of Bildungsroman. It depicts how she overcomes all the patriarchal oppression and evolves as a mature woman at the end. Alice Walker, in her epistolary novel, discusses the problems encountered by black women on their road to self-love and independence. By applying the descriptive qualitative approach, the article uses the concept of womanism. To delineate how the new black woman is gradually formed to great awakening and emancipation. Walker expands this novel as a tool to give voice to the oppressed black woman and constructs the way for them to get empowered and emancipated. The entire narrative focuses on the life of Celie, who is sexually abused, and how she struggles to achieve a sense of self-hood. The letters, written to God by Celie, reflect that there is a ray of hope for independence. The semi-biographical story evokes pity in the readers and the tale also records the endurance of Celie through all the difficulties and how she emerges as a victorious model. The female bonding and sisterhood she gets from Nettie, Sofia, and Shug Avery makes Celie break from male domination and begins to establish fruitful networking among the female relationship.
Multidisciplinary Recent Trends
Recent Trends in Multi-Disciplinary Subjects
The Cardinal objective of this analysis is an exploration of the Survival Consciousness and Justi... more The Cardinal objective of this analysis is an exploration of the Survival Consciousness and Justice as a dominant concern in Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby (1981). Generally, in the context of the discriminatory practices and segregation of the blacks by the whites, blacks resorted to varied strategies to sustain their existence among the whites. This paper examines how the white hegemony instils in the black survival, the desire for the magic white touch or even a seductive life. In total oblivion of their black cultural roots, Morrison outlines how the black woman is seen struggling to achieve her 'alien dreams' which were subtly ingrained in her. In addition, the novel is also an appropriate example of how the blacks accepted subordination for their survival. Another major achievement of Morrison in the novel is the exploration of the possibilities of a fulfilling man-woman relationship in the background of race and culture. By placing her novel in the ambience of two almost simultaneous movements, "Black is Beautiful" and "The Woman Liberation Movement", Morrison continues to probe the issue of meaningful survival and coexistence. The survival pangs of nature amid rampant exploitation and juxtaposed with the issue of the survival of black culture. Toni Morrison also depicts the struggle between nature and civilisation as a metaphor for the struggle between Black and White cultures. The quest for identity is tortured in the body, mind and spirit, and the black woman's struggles in a world where gender discrimination is not a deviation but a norm. Yet the characters reach their fullest potential and development within the boundaries of their community. Thus, from an overall perspective, this exploration carefully examines the impact of these racial differences on the survival process and the search for female subjectivity.
International Journal of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, 2022
Literature becomes a global experience, when it transcends nation-state boundaries, by crossing t... more Literature becomes a global experience, when it transcends nation-state boundaries, by crossing the limits of language, culture, and ethnicity. And thus it becomes transnational in its nature by crossing the borders and moving beyond nations, recognising differences as well as points of connection between cultures and contexts. One of the most extensive and predominant modes of oppression existing in our society is women's subjugation. No matter whatever may be the difference exists in between nations, the plight of women are always the same, being the worst forebears of social injustice, mainly evolved out of their gender identity. The history of women's lives, all over the world, like the traumatically colonized subjects, have been relegated to the position of the "demonic other", "marginalized" and in a metaphorical sense, their lives get crumbled in the hands of male supremacy. In this context, being always relegated to an inferior position, and always referred to as 'a damsel in distress', the term 'subaltern' gets ideally fits in with their position in the world. And this kind of marginalisation exists in the lives of Black women in America as well as the Dalit women in the Indian subcontinent. The resemblance between these two sections who belong to two entirely different yet far-reaching nations is in the fact that they are constantly undergoing a tug of war with this triple subjugation of caste or race, gender, and class. This paper scrutinizes how transnationalism paved the way for the emergence of Dalit feminist writings by taking inspiration from American Black womanism.
Smart Moves Journal Ijellh, Oct 28, 2022
Multidisciplinary Research, 2021
The core of the article analyses the theory of structuralism through the patterns of society and ... more The core of the article analyses the theory of structuralism through the patterns of society and how structural anthropology got evolved. Structuralism was born as a reaction to modernist 'alienation and despair'. Therefore, it is a way of looking for reality in the relationship of the humans. As a philosophy and linguistic analysis, it lends itself to the empirical enterprise. The structuralist interconnects the language system and the social system. Saussurean structural linguistics defines language as a system of relations. Saussurean concept of 'Langue and Parole' aligns with Noam Chomsky's 'Competence and Performance'. Saussurean language as a system of relations is conveyed through signs and semiology as a science, studies the life of signs within the society. From Saussurean linguistics, Claude Levi-Strauss launches into structural anthropology. For his analysis, he uses marriage rules, cultural behaviours, methods of cooking, totemic myths and so on. From these cultural constructs in general, he institutes structural anthropology braced up by incest, its prohibition rules and analysis of myths. The legends of Holy Grail and Buddha too come in handy to prove his claim. To conclude, through a semantic system of structural anthropology, he proclaims that the institution of marriage becomes a system of communication, a linguistic system.