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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62143120220701Shobhaa De's Idea of Feminism: A New Dimension to Indian Feminist Literature1615271810.26655/JELCS.2022.1.1ENKanhaiya KumarSinhaDepartment of English, Shakya Muni College, Bodh-Gaya, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya, Bihar, India.0000-0002-7568-1299Journal Article20220121Several Indian women writers, by voicing the opinions and desires of Indian women, have played a pivotal role in Indian Feminist Literature. Shobhaa De, a well-known columnist and frank writer of any social issue, introduces a new way of writing (with the depiction of sex) for women in Indian English Literature. She, while portraying women in her fiction, tries to mirror or portray her own feminist mindset. Her woman, being termed as ‘New Woman,’ is a sexually liberated free thinker. This new woman, a non-believer in submissive suffering, rebels against the centuries-old traditional patriarchal norms of Indian society. She, with feminist self-assertiveness and traditional domestic feminity, presents herself as an amalgamation of physical freedom, sexuality and stamina, striving for equal participation in pleasure, play, career, marriage, and family.<br /><br />This paper, through a broad evaluation of her select novels, tries to explore De’s whole-hearted protest against the good old image of women, unable to live and do things in their own ways.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_152718_633943c8daee4f83dfe10396707f4c69.pdfKARE Publishing, Turkey
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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62143120220701Multiple Spatialities, Temporalities, and Gender Identities71615271910.26655/JELCS.2022.1.2ENAmel ZaougaBen AhmedThe Private University of TunisJournal Article20220404This paper seeks to develop a conception of time as a category open to continuous rethinking and to consider it in the mid of multiple forces like space and gender and how this perception empowers one gender and limits the power of the other gender. Guided by the postcolonial perspective on temporal difference, emphasis is put on how revisiting historical processes disrupts the linear notion of time by narrating various moments as disjunctive parts of the same story. Nonlinear narratives highlight the way the past comes back to disrupt the present. However, these narratives demonstrate that cyclical time as opposed to linear time, does not only mean defeat but also may encode the repetition of possibility through attention to historical exclusion and recourse to harmony with the nonhuman world. The concepts of cyclicality and harmony with nature largely correspond to the ecofeminist conceptualizations of time in terms of multiplicity and acknowledgement of difference.<br /><br />Spatial turn is an intellectual movement that has shifted attention to the dynamic nature of space with regard to cultural change. This movement appeared in dialogue with feminist, ecological and postcolonial thoughts. Hence, this paper also essays to show how these thoughts share the understanding of space as multiple and heterogeneous to offer alternative spatial configurations. Focusing on theorizing space and gender, both feminist and spatial critique meet in their analysis of patriarchal spatialization, more specifically of the binary oppositions and hierarchical power structures that are laid bare through human interactions with space.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_152719_170a5697f84d627326322cc707bf2a04.pdfKARE Publishing, Turkey
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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62143120220701The Importance of Narrative Voice in The Valley of Amazement172315272010.26655/JELCS.2022.1.3ENTahmineh Kord GharachorlouDepartment of English Language and Literature, Azad Islamic University of Tehran, South Breanch. IranAhmad SedighiDepartment of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, South Branch, IranJournal Article20220521According to Genette's narratology, the narrative voice depends on the way the narrator tells a story, its process, and its result. The narrator is responsible for the modification and rules of the story. In this respect, the narrative voice is the narrator's voice that determines the point of view. In a first-person narrative, the character and the narrator merge. However, the narrator recounts the conception of the character's manner to reveal her/his perception through thought and feeling, the focalizer focuses on the moment of perception. In The Valley of Amazement, Violet is the narrator-character of the story who conceptually recalls her analeptic life of her younger self through telling her unbelievable events. She constantly informs her conception about Violet, as the character. In this first-person narrative, she thinks about her situation and reports the character's thought and feeling. Further, thought and feeling are not different from speech except when the narrator undertakes to condense them into events. At the time of narrating, she operates under a set of different attitudes than those of the character. This paper is depicting the way Violet, as the narrator tells her conception, about Violet' thought and behavior, as the character, in the light of Genette's and Bal's narrative theory. Therefore, what is the importance of narrative voice in this story?https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_152720_9eee22783a46e54b04f874fb8e8d28a6.pdfKARE Publishing, Turkey
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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62143120220701 The Gothic Body and Resurrection in Wuthering Heights and The Fall of the House of Usher243315272110.26655/JELCS.2022.1.4ENJunge DouMA student, School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing0000-0003-3918-1614Journal Article20220526Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) are the best representative of the Gothic works in British and American literature. Not only do they inherit the Gothic traditions, they also put forward the genre by creating their own country’s styles. Poe founds the traditional writing mode of American psychological and introverted Gothic by creating “the terror of the soul”, meanwhile, Brontë undercuts the distinction between Gothic and domestic narratives in the nineteenth century British literary history. In depicting Madeline Usher’s Gothic death, mysterious resurrection and the disembodiment and mental breakdown of Roderick Usher, Poe, presents the incest-taboo, his view of after-life and the ghost haunting the House of Usher, the text and democratic America. Brontë, on the other hand, portraying Catherine Earnshaw’s death and ghost, Heathcliff’s revenge and dubious identity, suggests the instability caused by slavery, racial and colonial issues, Gothic and domestic novels, which makes the novel becomes the dark secret at the heart of the history of literature.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_152721_5eb31dd63b36e45fb11d75dad8647bdb.pdfKARE Publishing, Turkey
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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62143120220701I can’t breathe: A Study of Identity and Hybridity In Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun344215278110.26655/JELCS.2022.1.5ENHasan HadiAliMinistry of Education, Anbar0000-0001-7044-8327Ali KareemSameerMinistry of Education in Iraq-Anbar Education DirectorateJournal Article20220526Hansberry’s play has been delineated as sensible for its portrayal of mind-boggling rather than stereotyped Afro-Americans and for exploring how her people lived as a result of hybridity. This study discusses the hybrid character in Lorrain Hansberry’s play Raisin in the Sun and displays her quintessential civil rights and social activism so that she displays how the characters of the play attempt to adjust their life and identity according to racial and social discrimination of the Whites. This racial inclination is deliberately spread by one portion of the White people relating to the psychological, social, and even religious factors. Those people are known as supremacists since they have to hold their character and isolate from overall population. Loraine Hansberry formed penetrating yet now and again furious plays about Afro- Americans life in a female perspective since few African American women are comprehended as benefactors of the stage. Hybrid characters on the quest for home and individuality are largely political and social. Thus, this paper implies that the dilemma of colored people will not vanish by means of any social, religious, and political circumstances, but by leading their life via self-acceptance as colored people.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_152781_9e0820440964c51fd73aa78b9ef6b003.pdf