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Papers by Dipak Joshi
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
This paper analyzes ambivalent representation of India in William Hodges' Travels in India. T... more This paper analyzes ambivalent representation of India in William Hodges' Travels in India. The exploration of politics behind such representation can be interesting area to investigate. The writer has tried to portray the contradiction between ruins, antiquity, and depopulated habitation on the one hand; and modification, cultivation, and populated habitation, on the other. The horrendous act of sati has been depicted in a smart way as Hodges does not criticize Hindu tradition of self-immolation of wives for the death of their husbands; while the same custom was declared illegal and punishable later by English rulers in India during colonial time. Similarly, Hindu art and architecture has not been observed with the spectacle of Greek art which was considered model worldwide; rather it has been depicted as superb and guided by climate, culture, and geography of its own. Promod K. Nayar's notion of imperial sublime, Saree Makdisi's Romantic imperialism, and Julie Reiser&#...
EJ Social, 2022
This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstra... more This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence. The affective subjectivity of the writers-Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)-discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. The notable affects highlighted in the novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and rage. One positive affect in favor of one at the same time invites the opposite affect for the other. The paper concludes that the affects evoked in the abovementioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers-an ideologically biased orientation that results in prose of demonization and an open declaration of evil on whom they consider the other.
Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010
European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstra... more This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence. The affective subjectivity of the writers—Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)—discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. The notable affects highlighted in the novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and rage. One positive affect in favor of one at the same time invites the opposite affect for the other. The paper concludes that the affects evoked in the abovementioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers—an ideologically biased orientation that results in prose of demonization and an open declaration of evil on whom...
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
If anyone is willing to take part in our publishing system as Editor or Reviewer, please let us k... more If anyone is willing to take part in our publishing system as Editor or Reviewer, please let us know. Let's all work together and establish this journal system into a trusted and reputed platform.
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
This paper analyzes selected Indian partition novels to unravel affective politics underlined in ... more This paper analyzes selected Indian partition novels to unravel affective politics underlined in them. The major affects underlying in these novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and outrage. One positive affect in favor of one concomitantly invites antonymic affect for the other. This refrain of affect, as this paper has tried to analyze, follows the nationalist historiographies of the writers like Khushwant Singh (The Train to Pakistan) and Bhisham Sahni (Tamas). The paper concludes that the affects evoked by the above mentioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers—an ideologically biased orientation that results into a prose of demonization and denunciation of whom they consider the Other.
European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper analyzes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in terms of Coleridge’s imaginative plea for ... more This paper analyzes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in terms of Coleridge’s imaginative plea for a modification of consciousness about racial slavery prevalent in the then British society. What lends muscle to the plea is the use of gothic supernaturalism, which helps bring about a transformation in the Mariner. The gothic-actuated transformation, this paper claims, derives from Coleridge’s own ambiguous attitude to English imperialism—an ambivalence which results into systematic portrayal of the violator as the rightful beneficiary of the reader’s sympathy. The paper concludes that the poem’s turn to the affect of moral sentimentalism intends to make the reader of Coleridge’s time acquiesce in accepting colonial guilt as the spiritual politics of quietism, thereby averting the possibility of a violent reaction both from the hapless victims and some conscientious victimizers. There was not much thrust on an economic and political upgrading of the status of the slaves; instead, the a...
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal, Dec 31, 2019
This paper aims to analyze the manifestation of interdiscursivity in Patricia McCormick's novel S... more This paper aims to analyze the manifestation of interdiscursivity in Patricia McCormick's novel Sold in the light of supportive, essentialist, traditional, patriarchal discourse conventions versus contradictory, hybrid, mixed discourses of change. The paper approaches the subject from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, feminist discourse analysis, and James Paul Gee's semiotic system of seven building tasks of language. McCormick's representation of girl trafficking in Nepali rural areas and her exoticizing of the society is found to be guided by her prior assumption and generalization of the third world countries. In spite of the presence of counter-discourses like government action, social protest organizations, joint effort against trafficking, the author only highlights Western discourse conventions vis-à-vis the third world like submissive womanhood, patriarchy, poverty, subsistent economy, and illiteracy. The paper discovers that the novelist, like a researcher, uses vignettes as tools for investigating into Nepali society, but they show her subscription to Western interdiscursivity, which makes her blind to the reformative measures afoot in Nepal to arrest the situation of girl trafficking. The novel is about a social problem but the novelist's efforts are seen to be invested in effeminizing, romanticizing or exoticizing the Nepali society rather than in improving the situation.
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
This paper analyzes ambivalent representation of India in William Hodges' Travels in India. T... more This paper analyzes ambivalent representation of India in William Hodges' Travels in India. The exploration of politics behind such representation can be interesting area to investigate. The writer has tried to portray the contradiction between ruins, antiquity, and depopulated habitation on the one hand; and modification, cultivation, and populated habitation, on the other. The horrendous act of sati has been depicted in a smart way as Hodges does not criticize Hindu tradition of self-immolation of wives for the death of their husbands; while the same custom was declared illegal and punishable later by English rulers in India during colonial time. Similarly, Hindu art and architecture has not been observed with the spectacle of Greek art which was considered model worldwide; rather it has been depicted as superb and guided by climate, culture, and geography of its own. Promod K. Nayar's notion of imperial sublime, Saree Makdisi's Romantic imperialism, and Julie Reiser&#...
EJ Social, 2022
This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstra... more This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence. The affective subjectivity of the writers-Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)-discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. The notable affects highlighted in the novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and rage. One positive affect in favor of one at the same time invites the opposite affect for the other. The paper concludes that the affects evoked in the abovementioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers-an ideologically biased orientation that results in prose of demonization and an open declaration of evil on whom they consider the other.
Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010
European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstra... more This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence. The affective subjectivity of the writers—Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)—discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. The notable affects highlighted in the novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and rage. One positive affect in favor of one at the same time invites the opposite affect for the other. The paper concludes that the affects evoked in the abovementioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers—an ideologically biased orientation that results in prose of demonization and an open declaration of evil on whom...
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
If anyone is willing to take part in our publishing system as Editor or Reviewer, please let us k... more If anyone is willing to take part in our publishing system as Editor or Reviewer, please let us know. Let's all work together and establish this journal system into a trusted and reputed platform.
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal
This paper analyzes selected Indian partition novels to unravel affective politics underlined in ... more This paper analyzes selected Indian partition novels to unravel affective politics underlined in them. The major affects underlying in these novels are those of love, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and outrage. One positive affect in favor of one concomitantly invites antonymic affect for the other. This refrain of affect, as this paper has tried to analyze, follows the nationalist historiographies of the writers like Khushwant Singh (The Train to Pakistan) and Bhisham Sahni (Tamas). The paper concludes that the affects evoked by the above mentioned novels are ethically tilted to the notions of community and nationhood of the respective writers—an ideologically biased orientation that results into a prose of demonization and denunciation of whom they consider the Other.
European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper analyzes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in terms of Coleridge’s imaginative plea for ... more This paper analyzes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in terms of Coleridge’s imaginative plea for a modification of consciousness about racial slavery prevalent in the then British society. What lends muscle to the plea is the use of gothic supernaturalism, which helps bring about a transformation in the Mariner. The gothic-actuated transformation, this paper claims, derives from Coleridge’s own ambiguous attitude to English imperialism—an ambivalence which results into systematic portrayal of the violator as the rightful beneficiary of the reader’s sympathy. The paper concludes that the poem’s turn to the affect of moral sentimentalism intends to make the reader of Coleridge’s time acquiesce in accepting colonial guilt as the spiritual politics of quietism, thereby averting the possibility of a violent reaction both from the hapless victims and some conscientious victimizers. There was not much thrust on an economic and political upgrading of the status of the slaves; instead, the a...
Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal, Dec 31, 2019
This paper aims to analyze the manifestation of interdiscursivity in Patricia McCormick's novel S... more This paper aims to analyze the manifestation of interdiscursivity in Patricia McCormick's novel Sold in the light of supportive, essentialist, traditional, patriarchal discourse conventions versus contradictory, hybrid, mixed discourses of change. The paper approaches the subject from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, feminist discourse analysis, and James Paul Gee's semiotic system of seven building tasks of language. McCormick's representation of girl trafficking in Nepali rural areas and her exoticizing of the society is found to be guided by her prior assumption and generalization of the third world countries. In spite of the presence of counter-discourses like government action, social protest organizations, joint effort against trafficking, the author only highlights Western discourse conventions vis-à-vis the third world like submissive womanhood, patriarchy, poverty, subsistent economy, and illiteracy. The paper discovers that the novelist, like a researcher, uses vignettes as tools for investigating into Nepali society, but they show her subscription to Western interdiscursivity, which makes her blind to the reformative measures afoot in Nepal to arrest the situation of girl trafficking. The novel is about a social problem but the novelist's efforts are seen to be invested in effeminizing, romanticizing or exoticizing the Nepali society rather than in improving the situation.