Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52626
Susmita Talukdar
‘Difference’ in multicultural America is confusing to me as its concept determines some visible physiological features of people, and ‘knowledge’ of their history/culture, which is naturalized, circulated, and practiced through cultural institutions. Identity politics plays crucial role in its deliberate categorization and hierarchization of American subjects, which continues the historical process of separation through racism, sexism, and homophobia. As a university teacher, I have found how through the cultural institutions of university a mono-cultural population of American subjects is produced through multicultural demographic. If the primary object of multiculturalism is celebration of ‘difference,’ what ‘differences’ are celebrated most, and based on what criteria? For better understanding of ‘difference’ we should go beyond the academically sanctioned ‘Knowledge’ that disqualifies some ‘other’ knowledges, and it is by exploring some marginalized narratives of women we can reformulate the notion of ‘difference,’ that would add to the richness of ‘difference’ in multicultural discourse. Moreover, in traditional academic discourse, women’s narratives, particularly on motherhood, are less explored to finding out how they contribute to the varieties of multicultural subjectivities. My paper is based on Mahasweta Devi’s “Breast-Giver” (Standayini in original) in re-formulating a different concept of mother in its investigation on how discourses, being practiced as ‘ideologies’ through institutions, affect individuals. I propose different teaching-learning classroom activities in encouraging students to develop new perspectives of the world to modify the notion of multiculturalism that would accommodate any 'difference.'
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53057
Kumari Lama
Unremitting global flow of people have become the inherent characteristics of contemporary society. Since the concept of global village invaded each nook and corner of the world, thousands of people have been lining-up to enter into the global village from their local villages. They move leaving their ancestor’s places behind in the search of opportunities, better life, and to pursuing dreams. However, each such flow unknowingly creates a disjuncture within them. In this context, the paper argues that the specific disjunctive feeling itself becomes a means to connect them with their places and people. Mainly, they try to revisit their past, place and people through memory, which becomes instrumental for their reconnection. Concentrating on it, the paper critically examines the disjuncture as a trope of conjuncture in Sudeep Pakhrin’s selected poems. His poems, “Golden Street” and “Maavala” focus on the childhood memories that become strong thread to tie-up with his place and relatives in the verge of overpowering sense of disconnectedness. To critically analyze the isolated and vulnerable human condition in present society, I have employed Arjun Appadurai’s concept of global cultural flow and disjuncture as a theoretical backing.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53055
Anima Dhungana
Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly is as an example of brutal and inhumane behaviour of the state apparatus during the political turmoil in the world after Second World War, especially in Africa. The novel presents the pathetic condition of the inhabitants of the colonized nations and the trauma experienced by people from different roots through the presentation of the major character Lily, who ends up in refugee status. Furthermore, Amina and her husband Yusuf, lives their lives with the psychological and physical imparity even long after their heart rendering dehumanized experience. Aziz, the doctor, despite his pleasant character faces premature death as a consequence of brutal act on its citizens by the nation-state. I, therefore, argue that the novel presents a perfect example of ruthless treatment of imperialism, totalitarian rule, and domination by the exercise of repressive state apparatus resulting in the deprivation of the Rights of Man caused by the Decline of the nation states, to compel major character Lily into refugee status, Amina and her husband, Yusuf into psychological and physical imparity, and Dr. Aziz’s unnatural tragic death. Before bringing up the arguments to support my claim, it is important to understand the varied meaning of Human Rights and historical timeline of the novel.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53056
Megh Raj Adhikari
With new means of communication related to recorded voices and mass-produced images aggressively coming to the forefront, modernist writers remained obsessed and haunted by their alienated, estranged, and disjunct selves reflected in meta-textual forms. Destroyed images of paper in modernist fiction and their connection to growing anxieties about the material form of textual matter provide the focus of Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg’s book Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print. The book explores premonitions of the ‘death of the paper’ debates well before the invention of the high-tech gadgets that fascinate, and some would say vex contemporary readers via virtual technologies in the digitized e-books and audio books. Having traced its roots to the late nineteenth century, Rosenberg connects anxieties about the imminent breakdown of print and printed matter to the epitome of high-modernist literary experimentation such as typified by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-04DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52075
Arun Shrestha
Denial and Lack of Unconditional Hospitality in Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly The novel, Sweetness in the Belly, is a picture-perfect example of impossibility to hospitality to the refugees, namely, Lily, Amina, Yusuf, and Dr. Aziz by the people and state in Harar, and the major character Lily’s denial to hospitality in different places offered by different characters in the novel.Critics depict Camilla Gibbs Sweetness in the Belly as a catastrophic side effect of dictatorship, civil war, colonial impact, and poor living conditions in the 1980s and 1990s Ethiopia. The novel ends up in the psychopathic refugee status of the characters and the premature tragic death of the lover of the protagonist. The novel may present dictatorial effects, deprivation of human rights, and state dominance on its citizens resulting in refugee status, but in my reading, the novel is a strong exhibition of complete denial to hospitality by the states as well as the individuals segregating the humans from humans. The firsts and foremost identity of individuals as humans are denied. The state dominance using repressive state apparatus results in the loss of characters around the protagonist and the denial of hospitality, especially unconditional hospitality, as proposed by Jacques Derrida, makes the life chances of the characters of the novel vulnerable. I, therefore, argue that the novel is a picture-perfect example of impossibility to hospitality to the refugees, namely, Lily, Amina, Yusuf, and Dr. Aziz by the people and state in Harar, and the major character Lily’s denial to conditional hospitality in different places offered by different characters in the novel.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0001
Urvashi Kaushal, P. Tripathi
abstract:The partition of British India in 1947 and the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 witnessed violence that changed the cartography of the Indian subcontinent. This article explores a connecting thread between the history of violence during these epochal events and the commonality that both were followed by a conspicuous silence in the official historiography. It probes the disjuncture in the unreconciled history where silences corroborate official historiography and the unhealed wounds of victims of violence can be traced in the literary historiography produced by Sorayya Khan. This article is an analysis of her thematic choices and her treatment while writing about the victims of nationalist violence and its perpetrators. It examines her relentless effort to break this collective amnesia and silence of a society that witnessed, violated, massacred, and assaulted millions of its citizens to secure its borders. Her writing needs attention as it fills silent gaps in the historiography of Pakistan, and unlike most of the writers, she challenges the pervasive perception of men as heroic soldiers or perpetrators of violence and women as victims. She posits women as agents for breaking the silence over violence and thereby revises the official historiography.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52084
Manisha Gautam
Sumnima and Shirisko Phool deal with the subject matter of body aesthetics. Koirala’s Sumnima exposes vivacious Sumnima body with ‘strong sense of heroism’ that she straightens in front of dry body, idealistic notion of Somdatta and Parijat’s Shirisko Phool reveals the causes and consequences of Suyogbir’s kissing that kills Bari. Suyogbir fails to preserve his military ethics and social prestige while he is mad in Bari’s bodily beauty and behaviors. Somdatta’s spiritual salvation of Khas-Aryan stocks in the name of achieving divinity by the power of penance makes victim to a Kirat girl, Sumnima, for a long and she ultimately marries with a village boy from Kirat community and gives birth to a daughter. Comparative study compares two or more than two people, places, things, arts, culture/religion and literature and this is a comparative study on Koirala and Parijat characters’ body aesthetics in Sumnima and Blue Mimosa. This comparative study’s objective is to bring prolong history of body aesthetics of Suryadatta, Somdatta, Bhilla, Puloma and Sumnima in Sumnima and Suyogbir, Shivaraj, Mujura, Sanu and Sakambari in Shirisko Phool for which I take theoretical support from Susan Bassnett, Charles Bernheimer, Jonathan Culler, David Ferry, Guillen Clandio, Jost Francis, Remak H.H.etc.’s ideas. Koirala and Parijat characters expose body aesthetics, experience ups and down of social practices and continue and/or break throw them from multiple aspects. The narratives in Sumnima and Blue Mimosa also focus on divine power for spiritual living, too but this study highlights an exposition of body aesthetics.
Sumnima和Shirisko Phool处理身体美学的主题。Koirala的Sumnima以“强烈的英雄主义意识”暴露了Sumnima活泼的身体，她在干燥的身体前挺直了身体，Somdatta的理想主义观念和Parijat的Shirisko Phool揭示了Suyogbir亲吻杀死Bari的原因和后果。Suyogbir未能保持他的军事道德和社会声望，而他对巴里的身体美和行为感到疯狂。Somdatta以通过忏悔的力量获得神性的名义对k哈斯-雅利安人的精神救赎，使Kirat女孩Sumnima成为受害者，她最终与Kirat社区的一个乡村男孩结婚并生下了一个女儿。比较研究比较两个或两个以上的人、地点、事物、艺术、文化/宗教和文学，这是对Sumnima和Blue Mimosa中Koirala和Parijat人物身体美学的比较研究。本比较研究的目的是延长Sumnima的Suryadatta, Somdatta, Bhilla, Puloma和Sumnima的身体美学历史，以及Shirisko Phool的Suyogbir, Shivaraj, Mujura, Sanu和Sakambari的身体美学历史，我从Susan Bassnett, Charles Bernheimer, Jonathan Culler, David Ferry, Guillen cldio, Jost Francis, Remak h.h.等人那里获得理论支持。的想法。Koirala和Parijat的角色揭示了身体美学，经历了社会实践的起伏，并从多个方面继续和/或打破了它们。《Sumnima》和《Blue Mimosa》的叙事同样关注精神生活的神圣力量，但本研究强调了对身体美学的阐述。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0079
O. Makarchuk, V. Makarchuk, I. Terlyuk, N. Zakharchyn, Andriy Koval
abstract:Freedom of speech in the media has been a means of expressing opinion and a flag-ship of democratic changes in society. Freedom of speech suppression has always had negative consequences for autoritarian regimes. The media have always been severely oppressed by the authorities, the Ukrainian press being one of the drivers of Ukraine’s independence. Therefore, the study of the freedom of speech and press evolution in Ukraine is a topical issue. The aim of this article is to research the freedom of speech and press evolution under the conditions of the Austrian constitutional monarchy (from 1848 to the beginning of the First World War). In addition, related censorship restrictions are considered, particularly the characteristics of censorship and noncensorship restrictions on the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) press of Galicia. The article can be of interest to historians, philologists, journalists, and all those interested in the field of freedom of speech and its historical context.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52078
Dhaneshwar Paudel
This research article makes an attempt to explore the exposition of disgust Rasa in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). Human being has strong negative feeling of aversion or sickening feeling of revulsion because they are attracted to the materialistic life now. They have been money minded and have self-centered ideas. They only want to earn money. Sometime, they do the illegal work for earning money. They have sexual shameless behavior. They are highly obsessive and abominable. They desire to establish the factories for their luxury. They have become totally selfish. So, they have the destructive morality. Moreover, the whole landscape is covered by dust and then, they have complex life and it produces the disgust rasa which represents depression and dissatisfaction. It has a powerful pessimistic affection of disapproval. This study has read the novel through the critical design that Sheldon Pollock has developed the critical concept of disgust rasa. Thus, the finding of the research is that the modern men have no morality and they have Sickening and shocking manner, etc. which product full of disgust rasa in their life.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52085
Mohan Dangaura
This paper studies the role of caste, community, and culture in the formation of Tharu subjectivity in Resham Chaudhary's novels Chirphar (Breakdown), Bandhuwa Kamaiya, and Hidden Stories from Prison. Tharu subjectivity in Chaudhary's novels has been represented as the culturally distinguished, however, socio-politically oppressed body. Chaudhary's narratives mention his experiences of the time when Kamaiya system was in practice. Chaudhary discusses Kamaiya Tharus as the most acute representation of social status of Tharu community. The text primarily makes commentary on the shaping of Tharu subjectivity in his community. The author critically delves into the historical growth of the community, dividing it into Landlord Tharu and Kamaiya Tharu. Furthermore, the author becomes critical of his own community in terms of upbringing and social interaction. He expresses his dissatisfaction with the community's politically depraved conscience. He makes harsh and pitiful comments on the Tharu community's uncaring and self-observed behavior among themselves. The author begins his text by remembering his life-changing experience in America, where he was first advised to return to his own village home and start a movement for promoting the ethnic agency of his community. Chaudhary's autobiographical novels also assort memories of different periods of his exiled life in India. Hence, the paper assesses that the author has been the victim of his own community's naive and unwitting socio-political structure and the depraved Tharu subjectivity is formed by the depraved socio-political conscience of its community
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