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The subject gender disproportion is one of the out spoken issues in the current scenario. There a... more The subject gender disproportion is one of the out spoken issues in the current scenario. There are plenty of female writers and critics, contributed their views on the portrayal of women in literature and integrate the feministic theory to uplift the status of women in the society. Ambivalent Sexism is one among the feminist theories, argues the portrayal of women. This paper analyzes the female characters and how they are depicted in the novel African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou. The incorporation of the theory Ambivalent Sexism is accounted into this paper to unambiguous the status of African women. This theory has two sub categories: the benevolent sexism and hostile sexism. Benevolent sexism covenants with the optimistic characteristics of female whereas hostile sexism focuses the pessimistic. This paper attempts to establish that both sub feministic approaches are simply focused to demoralized status of the women in the society. It enlightens the views of profession and practice...

Interdisciplinary Research Journal for Humanities, 2023

Man's search for meaning in life is a recurrent theme in time-old literatures. With the advent of... more Man's search for meaning in life is a recurrent theme in time-old literatures. With the advent of globalization, erstwhile concrete identities become fluid. This further problematized man's conception of meaningful life. Sublimity helps human beings to dwarf themselves before greater things in order to transcend their immediate reality. Anees Salim's novel The Small-town Sea traces the life of a dying father and his son. The author juxtaposes the dying man's life to the infinite sea in the novel. The sea acts as a sublime for the dying man to transcend his material life. This paper is a discussion on Edmund Burke's concept of sublime with reference to Anees Salim's novel The Small-Town Sea.

Langlit-An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal , 2023

The bloom of computer software in the digital world has extended support in multiple fields inclu... more The bloom of computer software in the digital world has extended support in multiple fields including literature. In the literary sphere, software can be utilized in examining the count of words, characters, phrases, sentences and syllables in literary texts. It can also be used to calculate the density of lexicons. This research paper aims at analyzing the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge based on the frequencies of words and phrases, using a free online software called "Text Analyzer". It also explores the impact of the use and count of certain words on the themes of the poem and the overall impact.

Langlit An International Peer-reviewed Open Access Journal, 2023

Digital Humanities has been on the limelight ever since the intervention of computers in human li... more Digital Humanities has been on the limelight ever since the intervention of computers in human life. The relationship between technology and human life has become inevitable and it has been taking new dimensions every time a new technology is invented or used. Naturally a new field called Digital Humanities evolved in its own natural pace. This paper traces the origin, growth and development of Digital Humanities in its present form. First, this study defines humanities and digital tools, next it analyses the inevitable rise of the new area Digital Humanities. Further, this paper examines the important historical events that contributed to the development of this field. Various other factors such as the role of English in the development of Digital Humanities, its economic dimension, the relationship between literature and Digital Humanities, the evolution of Cultural Studies in the wake of Digital Humanities, intervention of digital tools and cyber space in academics, the new forms of Digital Humanities like archiving, the importance of metadata and the impact of this field on research are also focused. To illustrate Digital Humanities, a study on the Cyber Culture of the students at the tertiary level is also presented and analyzed in this paper.

Madhya Bharti, 2022

Anticipating the arrival of neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon postulated that once the power struggle... more Anticipating the arrival of neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon postulated that once the power struggle between the colonizer and the colonized is over, it will be followed by the power struggle of native elites and the subaltern in the postcolonial nation. Oppression and exploitation of the subaltern continue to exist in the hands of native elites through various forms. The status-quo of elites is achieved by manipulating the discourse of 'nation'. The political decolonization of India was accompanied with partition of the country along religious line. Though the founding fathers of the nation believed in secular state, the outgrowing religious fundamentalism in India aims at creating a nation of unitary identity where being a Hindu is not just a religious identity but an ethnic identity, an essential identity to be an Indian, thereby eliding other identities which defy the unitary identity. This excludes Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim from the national narrative. Such varied identities, according to the fundamentalists, have to be policed, domesticated and to be projected as a potential threat for nation. Anees Salim's Vanity Bagh is an account of a fictional Muslim hamlet called Vanity Bagh. It throws light on the bitter experiences of Muslim communities in the postcolonial India where their belonging to the nation is questioned. This paper demonstrates how Muslim community is ethnically 'othered' within their own nation with reference to Anees Salim's novel Vanity Bagh.

The subject gender disproportion is one of the out spoken issues in the current scenario. There a... more The subject gender disproportion is one of the out spoken issues in the current scenario. There are plenty of female writers and critics, contributed their views on the portrayal of women in literature and integrate the feministic theory to uplift the status of women in the society. Ambivalent Sexism is one among the feminist theories, argues the portrayal of women. This paper analyzes the female characters and how they are depicted in the novel African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou. The incorporation of the theory Ambivalent Sexism is accounted into this paper to unambiguous the status of African women. This theory has two sub categories: the benevolent sexism and hostile sexism. Benevolent sexism covenants with the optimistic characteristics of female whereas hostile sexism focuses the pessimistic. This paper attempts to establish that both sub feministic approaches are simply focused to demoralized status of the women in the society. It enlightens the views of profession and practice...

Interdisciplinary Research Journal for Humanities, 2023

Man's search for meaning in life is a recurrent theme in time-old literatures. With the advent of... more Man's search for meaning in life is a recurrent theme in time-old literatures. With the advent of globalization, erstwhile concrete identities become fluid. This further problematized man's conception of meaningful life. Sublimity helps human beings to dwarf themselves before greater things in order to transcend their immediate reality. Anees Salim's novel The Small-town Sea traces the life of a dying father and his son. The author juxtaposes the dying man's life to the infinite sea in the novel. The sea acts as a sublime for the dying man to transcend his material life. This paper is a discussion on Edmund Burke's concept of sublime with reference to Anees Salim's novel The Small-Town Sea.

Langlit-An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal , 2023

The bloom of computer software in the digital world has extended support in multiple fields inclu... more The bloom of computer software in the digital world has extended support in multiple fields including literature. In the literary sphere, software can be utilized in examining the count of words, characters, phrases, sentences and syllables in literary texts. It can also be used to calculate the density of lexicons. This research paper aims at analyzing the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge based on the frequencies of words and phrases, using a free online software called "Text Analyzer". It also explores the impact of the use and count of certain words on the themes of the poem and the overall impact.

Langlit An International Peer-reviewed Open Access Journal, 2023

Digital Humanities has been on the limelight ever since the intervention of computers in human li... more Digital Humanities has been on the limelight ever since the intervention of computers in human life. The relationship between technology and human life has become inevitable and it has been taking new dimensions every time a new technology is invented or used. Naturally a new field called Digital Humanities evolved in its own natural pace. This paper traces the origin, growth and development of Digital Humanities in its present form. First, this study defines humanities and digital tools, next it analyses the inevitable rise of the new area Digital Humanities. Further, this paper examines the important historical events that contributed to the development of this field. Various other factors such as the role of English in the development of Digital Humanities, its economic dimension, the relationship between literature and Digital Humanities, the evolution of Cultural Studies in the wake of Digital Humanities, intervention of digital tools and cyber space in academics, the new forms of Digital Humanities like archiving, the importance of metadata and the impact of this field on research are also focused. To illustrate Digital Humanities, a study on the Cyber Culture of the students at the tertiary level is also presented and analyzed in this paper.

Madhya Bharti, 2022

Anticipating the arrival of neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon postulated that once the power struggle... more Anticipating the arrival of neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon postulated that once the power struggle between the colonizer and the colonized is over, it will be followed by the power struggle of native elites and the subaltern in the postcolonial nation. Oppression and exploitation of the subaltern continue to exist in the hands of native elites through various forms. The status-quo of elites is achieved by manipulating the discourse of 'nation'. The political decolonization of India was accompanied with partition of the country along religious line. Though the founding fathers of the nation believed in secular state, the outgrowing religious fundamentalism in India aims at creating a nation of unitary identity where being a Hindu is not just a religious identity but an ethnic identity, an essential identity to be an Indian, thereby eliding other identities which defy the unitary identity. This excludes Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim from the national narrative. Such varied identities, according to the fundamentalists, have to be policed, domesticated and to be projected as a potential threat for nation. Anees Salim's Vanity Bagh is an account of a fictional Muslim hamlet called Vanity Bagh. It throws light on the bitter experiences of Muslim communities in the postcolonial India where their belonging to the nation is questioned. This paper demonstrates how Muslim community is ethnically 'othered' within their own nation with reference to Anees Salim's novel Vanity Bagh.