Rouble Brar | Punjabi University Patiala (original) (raw)
Papers by Rouble Brar
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Sep 1, 2020
Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fe... more Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fear, the trauma and the pain experienced during the partition violence by the multitudes is transmuted by literature into purging narratives. The portraiture of the historical facts woven into fiction produces a micro-history of an individual's or a group of individual's experiences into the representative of the macro-history of a nation. While Khushwant Singh through Train to Pakistan published in 1956, portrays the partition violence of 1946-47 after a decade of its inception in the lives of the South Asians, Mahesh Dattani encapsulates the violence of the Gujarat riots of 2002 with the backdrop of partition violence through Final Solutions published in 2005. In this manner these two texts encapsulate the past, present and future as the time referents of partition violence. Khushwant Singh's, Train to Pakistan recounts the rupture and the metamorphosis wrought in the lives of the people of Punjab by the partition violence. Mahesh Dattani's, Final Solutions presents the violent conflicts between the Muslims and the Hindus in independent India leading to the victimisation of both the communities. The overtones of the partition violence can be traced in the communal violence triggered in Gujarat.
International journal of applied research, 2017
Carl Jung defines myth as personal while Joseph Campbell considers it as the essential channel of... more Carl Jung defines myth as personal while Joseph Campbell considers it as the essential channel of projecting the energies of the universe through 'cultural manifestations'. Myth deals with the particularities of a culture according to the peculiarities of the worldview of its people. Myth arises from the specific concerns of a culture. Mythic appropriation has long been used as a contrivance by patriarchy to completely incorporate the idea of Femininity being inferior to manliness. Patriarchy has framed the idea of Femininity which attributes frailty, fickleness and frivolity to women. Female is often deemed to be a mute, passive and nonchalant spectator of male action. It is assumed that female agency does not exist. Patriarchy also shuns the idea of female identity and female consciousness. Patriarchy has long evoked the mythical thought to become the carrier of testimony to female insignificance. According to Claude Levi-Strauss in his The Savage Mind "Mythical thought for its part is imprisoned in the events and experiences which it never tires of ordering and reordering in its search to find them a meaning." (Strauss 22) Mythical thought has been used as an effectual ideological tool to sustain patriarchal control over women in Indian society. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni through her fiction not only explores the mythic appropriation of Femininity but also subverts it. She questions the practice of gender construction and attributing passivity to women in the patriarchal world. She employs literature for the 're-ordering' of the mythical thought to lend agency and voice to Draupadi amidst male heroism, war and mythic appropriation of gender in the epic of Mahabharta.
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Dec 1, 2020
Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is der... more Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is derived from Aristotle but myth poetics can be understood as engaging and exploring myth through the modern scientific approach pioneered by Claude Levi-Strauss's structural analysis of myth. Thomas Campbell describes myth as living inspiration while Carl Jung defines myth as personal. According to Campbell myth is not only the bearer of the religious beliefs, philosophical musings, artistic expressions, social formations but also is the location of scientific and technological discoveries. Jung compares myth with science, bringing out the predominance of myth over science in understanding the subjectivity in an individual life. It manifests a more individualistic approach and expresses life with more precision than Science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjectivism immanent in all its variety in the particular. Myth is the repository of cultural narratives of the preliterate societies. Myth Poetics explores myth beyond the limitations of human propensities towards mythopoesis and mythogenesis. Through the structural interpretation of myths, myth poetics draws attention towards the innate speculative organization of the myths. It simultaneously focuses on the specificities of a culture and the universality inherent in mythic structures.
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Dec 1, 2020
Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is der... more Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is derived from Aristotle but myth poetics can be understood as engaging and exploring myth through the modern scientific approach pioneered by Claude Levi-Strauss's structural analysis of myth. Thomas Campbell describes myth as living inspiration while Carl Jung defines myth as personal. According to Campbell myth is not only the bearer of the religious beliefs, philosophical musings, artistic expressions, social formations but also is the location of scientific and technological discoveries. Jung compares myth with science, bringing out the predominance of myth over science in understanding the subjectivity in an individual life. It manifests a more individualistic approach and expresses life with more precision than Science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjectivism immanent in all its variety in the particular. Myth is the repository of cultural narratives of the preliterate societies. Myth Poetics explores myth beyond the limitations of human propensities towards mythopoesis and mythogenesis. Through the structural interpretation of myths, myth poetics draws attention towards the innate speculative organization of the myths. It simultaneously focuses on the specificities of a culture and the universality inherent in mythic structures.
International journal of applied research, 2017
Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fe... more Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fear, the trauma and the pain experienced during the partition violence by the multitudes is transmuted by literature into purging narratives. The portraiture of the historical facts woven into fiction produces a micro-history of an individual's or a group of individual's experiences into the representative of the macro-history of a nation. While Khushwant Singh through Train to Pakistan published in 1956, portrays the partition violence of 1946-47 after a decade of its inception in the lives of the South Asians, Mahesh Dattani encapsulates the violence of the Gujarat riots of 2002 with the backdrop of partition violence through Final Solutions published in 2005. In this manner these two texts encapsulate the past, present and future as the time referents of partition violence. Khushwant Singh’s, Train to Pakistan recounts the rupture and the metamorphosis wrought in the lives of t...
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Sep 1, 2020
Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fe... more Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fear, the trauma and the pain experienced during the partition violence by the multitudes is transmuted by literature into purging narratives. The portraiture of the historical facts woven into fiction produces a micro-history of an individual's or a group of individual's experiences into the representative of the macro-history of a nation. While Khushwant Singh through Train to Pakistan published in 1956, portrays the partition violence of 1946-47 after a decade of its inception in the lives of the South Asians, Mahesh Dattani encapsulates the violence of the Gujarat riots of 2002 with the backdrop of partition violence through Final Solutions published in 2005. In this manner these two texts encapsulate the past, present and future as the time referents of partition violence. Khushwant Singh's, Train to Pakistan recounts the rupture and the metamorphosis wrought in the lives of the people of Punjab by the partition violence. Mahesh Dattani's, Final Solutions presents the violent conflicts between the Muslims and the Hindus in independent India leading to the victimisation of both the communities. The overtones of the partition violence can be traced in the communal violence triggered in Gujarat.
International journal of applied research, 2017
Carl Jung defines myth as personal while Joseph Campbell considers it as the essential channel of... more Carl Jung defines myth as personal while Joseph Campbell considers it as the essential channel of projecting the energies of the universe through 'cultural manifestations'. Myth deals with the particularities of a culture according to the peculiarities of the worldview of its people. Myth arises from the specific concerns of a culture. Mythic appropriation has long been used as a contrivance by patriarchy to completely incorporate the idea of Femininity being inferior to manliness. Patriarchy has framed the idea of Femininity which attributes frailty, fickleness and frivolity to women. Female is often deemed to be a mute, passive and nonchalant spectator of male action. It is assumed that female agency does not exist. Patriarchy also shuns the idea of female identity and female consciousness. Patriarchy has long evoked the mythical thought to become the carrier of testimony to female insignificance. According to Claude Levi-Strauss in his The Savage Mind "Mythical thought for its part is imprisoned in the events and experiences which it never tires of ordering and reordering in its search to find them a meaning." (Strauss 22) Mythical thought has been used as an effectual ideological tool to sustain patriarchal control over women in Indian society. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni through her fiction not only explores the mythic appropriation of Femininity but also subverts it. She questions the practice of gender construction and attributing passivity to women in the patriarchal world. She employs literature for the 're-ordering' of the mythical thought to lend agency and voice to Draupadi amidst male heroism, war and mythic appropriation of gender in the epic of Mahabharta.
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Dec 1, 2020
Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is der... more Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is derived from Aristotle but myth poetics can be understood as engaging and exploring myth through the modern scientific approach pioneered by Claude Levi-Strauss's structural analysis of myth. Thomas Campbell describes myth as living inspiration while Carl Jung defines myth as personal. According to Campbell myth is not only the bearer of the religious beliefs, philosophical musings, artistic expressions, social formations but also is the location of scientific and technological discoveries. Jung compares myth with science, bringing out the predominance of myth over science in understanding the subjectivity in an individual life. It manifests a more individualistic approach and expresses life with more precision than Science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjectivism immanent in all its variety in the particular. Myth is the repository of cultural narratives of the preliterate societies. Myth Poetics explores myth beyond the limitations of human propensities towards mythopoesis and mythogenesis. Through the structural interpretation of myths, myth poetics draws attention towards the innate speculative organization of the myths. It simultaneously focuses on the specificities of a culture and the universality inherent in mythic structures.
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Dec 1, 2020
Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is der... more Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is derived from Aristotle but myth poetics can be understood as engaging and exploring myth through the modern scientific approach pioneered by Claude Levi-Strauss's structural analysis of myth. Thomas Campbell describes myth as living inspiration while Carl Jung defines myth as personal. According to Campbell myth is not only the bearer of the religious beliefs, philosophical musings, artistic expressions, social formations but also is the location of scientific and technological discoveries. Jung compares myth with science, bringing out the predominance of myth over science in understanding the subjectivity in an individual life. It manifests a more individualistic approach and expresses life with more precision than Science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjectivism immanent in all its variety in the particular. Myth is the repository of cultural narratives of the preliterate societies. Myth Poetics explores myth beyond the limitations of human propensities towards mythopoesis and mythogenesis. Through the structural interpretation of myths, myth poetics draws attention towards the innate speculative organization of the myths. It simultaneously focuses on the specificities of a culture and the universality inherent in mythic structures.
International journal of applied research, 2017
Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fe... more Literature with its therapeutic powers has been able to produce catharsis for its readers. The fear, the trauma and the pain experienced during the partition violence by the multitudes is transmuted by literature into purging narratives. The portraiture of the historical facts woven into fiction produces a micro-history of an individual's or a group of individual's experiences into the representative of the macro-history of a nation. While Khushwant Singh through Train to Pakistan published in 1956, portrays the partition violence of 1946-47 after a decade of its inception in the lives of the South Asians, Mahesh Dattani encapsulates the violence of the Gujarat riots of 2002 with the backdrop of partition violence through Final Solutions published in 2005. In this manner these two texts encapsulate the past, present and future as the time referents of partition violence. Khushwant Singh’s, Train to Pakistan recounts the rupture and the metamorphosis wrought in the lives of t...