Mapping History in Fiction through Orality in Mahasweta Devi’s The Armeniun Champa Tree

Date: June 4, 2017 By: Editor Quleen Kaur Bijral1 & Vandana Sharma2 1Research Scholar, Department of Languages and  Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K. Email: quleen.kaur@gmail.com 2Head, Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K   Volume VII, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n1.en-v7-01-05 ABSTRACT The paper establishes how the novel The Armeniun Champa Tree attacks the cemented belief that fiction is…

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Still Hoping for Reconciliation: Reading Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as a Critique of Reconciliation

Date: June 4, 2017 By: Editor Virender Pal University College, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, Haryana. India. Email: p2vicky@gmail.com  Volume VII, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n1.en-v7-01-04 Abstract Australian government started the policy of reconciliation in 1991. The Aborigines were very optimistic about the policy in the beginning. The optimism is evident in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise, but in her…

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The concept of “Passing” and Transgender Identity: An Analysis of Jackie Kay’s Trumpet

Date: May 23, 2017 By: Editor Surinder Kaur Department of English, S.G.A.D. Govt. College, Tarn Taran, Punjab. Email: sandhu.surinder85@gmail.com   Volume VII, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n1.en-v7-01-03 Abstract The concept of “Passing” dates back to eighteenth century meaning hiding one’s race or sexuality and passing as the priviledged race or sexuality. Black individuals passed as white in the…

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Ethical Responsibility in a Modernist Universe: America in the Canvas of Miller’s All My Sons

Date: February 22, 2017 By: Editor Subhayu Bhattacharjee Presidency University, Kolkata. Email: subhayubhattacharjee007@gmail.com  Volume VII, Number 1, 2017   Full Text PDF DOI:10.25274/bcjms.v7n1.en-v7-01-02  Abstract: In an interview with Enoch Brater in the University of Michigan, Arthur Miller emphasized the significance of the Depression of the 1920’s on all playwrights of his generation. In one of his plays, namely, All My…

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Banaras as Text: Representation of Widows in Mona Verma’s The White Shadow

Date: February 22, 2017 By: Editor Ankur Konar Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sir Rashbehari Ghosh Mahavidyalaya. Email: ankrknr@gmail.com   Volume VII, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n1.en-v7-01-01  Abstract: The interplay of suppression, oppression, repression, compression of identity is an apt summary of the widows living in India. Such long practiced derelict, desolate state of the widows marks them to…

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