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Portrayal of Women Protagonists in the Selected Novels of Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee is a famous Indian born American non-fiction writer, short story writer and journalist. She is one of the well-known novelists of Indian Diaspora. Within a really short creative time, she has achieved enviable position in the field of English literature. In her works, she has very well depicted the Indian immigrant experience of her women characters both in her novels and short stories. In her works, she talks about the lives of Indian women immigrants in the U.S.A and their journey of transformation and adjustment of their lives and personalities. She tries to explore the themes of immigration as well as transformation. She portrays the various phases of her characters such as the phase of expatriation, the phase of transition and phase of immigration. She very well depicts how the cultural clash or cultural conflict between the west and the east leads to the psychological crisis in the minds of her women characters. In her novels, she has given importance to the feministic perspective of her women characters. Her women characters are the protagonist and hero of the novels. She has tried to portray how her female characters sacrifice their dreams, hopes, desires, wishes, what the various problems, fear, torture they face, and how they finally do their best to overcome from all the hurdles. She has drawn her female characters in various situations and circumstances.

Reversed Myth and Negative Symbols of Narcissus in Mother-Son Relationship in Hayashi Fumiko’s Narcissus

The famous myth of Narcissus is about a mythical handsome young man who indifferently rejects the love of the nymph Echo leading to Echo’s broken heart and untimely death and his being cursed to excessively adore his own handsome reflection on the pond till his death. The short story entitled Narcissus written by Hayashi Fumiko is intriguing because its title calls to mind the famous myth of Narcissus. However, this short story portrays the myth of Narcissus from a unique perspective. Thus, the aims of this paper are to analyse the reversed myth and negative symbols of Narcissus as reflected in the mother-son relationship in the short story. To support the analysis various psychological understandings of the myth of Narcissus are used as well as various understandings of the symbols of the flowers called Narcissus. The methods of research used are a comprehensive combination of textual-contextual methods as well as library research and qualitative research. The textual method focuses on the intrinsic aspects relevant to the focus of analysis, such as character, conflict, and setting, while the contextual method borrows the psychological concepts of the term Narcissus and the symbolic meaning of the flowers named Narcissus. The result shows that the mother-son relationship clearly portrays the reversed myth in the matter of the gender roles, the type of relationship, and the ending of the relationship. Another result shows that all the symbols related to the flowers of Narcissus turn into negative meanings in the sort of story entitled Narcissus by Hayashi Fumiko. In short, the short story writer turns upside down both the myth and the symbols resulting in an engaging story full of hidden meanings to be interpreted

The Unemployed Main Character in the Fiction of Kunut Hamsun and Najeeb Mahfouz: A Comparative Study in the Light of Sustainable Development

The Norwegian novelist Kunut Hamsun published his novel Hunger in 1921. The novel was translated into English by George Egerton. In this novel, Hamsun introduces the character of Andereas Tangen, a journalist who has a good life but starts to lose his living, and his essays begin to be refused. He becomes unemployed and suffers poverty, hunger, and homelessness for some time. By the end of the novel, he finds a job on a ship that is sailing from his town Christiania to fetch coal. During the 1930s the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Nageeb Mahfouz wrote his collection of short stories (Hams Eel- Gnoon) The Whisper of Madness. Among this collection, he published his short story (Al- Goo) The Hunger. In this short story, the main character, Ibrahim Hanafy has been working in a factory until he cuts his arm in an accident and loses his job. He becomes unemployed and he, with his family, suffers hunger and many social and psychological difficulties. He hates his life, tries to commit suicide but is saved coincidently by the son of the factory's owner. The man promises Ibrahim to find him a job. This paper aims to show that the unemployed main character in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works is unable either to love a partner or to have a friend and if he is married, he is unable to keep his marriage relation. Another aim of the paper is to shed light on the negative relations of the unemployed character on one side with his god and with the government of his country on the other side. The third aim of the paper is to emphasize that unemployment, in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works, leads the once good character to try to commit suicide. Thus the paper comes into three parts: the first part deals with Tangen’s failure to have a love relation or enjoy a friendship. This part also tackles Hanafy’s disability to protect his love for his wife. The second part introduces Tangen’s criticism of his god and of the government in his country. In the third part, the paper discusses the once good characters, becoming unemployed, thinking of death as a solution, and may try to commit suicide. The paper depends on the theory of needs' priority and the method of social and psychological analysis in tackling its topic.

Review Essay—Jhumpa Lahiri: Between Longing and Belonging

Review Essay—Jhumpa Lahiri: Between Longing and Belonging

Stylistics analysis of the short story “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway

This study aims to explore the language style of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Old Man”. This research describes the stylistic used in the short story. Ernest Hemingway is one of the famous writers of prose and short story. Many people recognize his special works for short stories because Ernest Hemingway has a characteristic that makes him one of the best short story writers in Europe from a young age. My Old Man is the first work known for the lot use of stylistic styles that distinguish this story from Hemingway’s other works. The researcher limits the stylistic only to explore linguistics such as pragmatics and semantics. In addition, the researcher explains the features of stylistic devices which are on simile, poetry, and calque. This study combines 2 methods of analysis, namely textual and stylistic analysis. The results illustrated how Hemingway used stylistic to describe a child as the narrator, where he told in detail the dark experiences of his father in the world of horse racing in a coherent manner. Hemingway combined his imagination with processing language styles in the story.

Existentialist Perspective: A Study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction The Holder of the World

The present study explores and analyses the existential perspective in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel The Holder of the World; she tries to represent the fluid nature of immigrants due to frequent dislocations and relocations, which facilitate the characters to transform and assimilate into a new environment. The protagonist, Hannah Easton, discards nostalgic feelings and celebrates the latest opportunities in a liberal environment. Being a fearless, brave, and bold, spirited woman, she chooses her ways of life freely and accepts the consequences frankly. Bharati Mukherjee, one of the path breaking Indian American novelists and short story writers, has constantly made efforts to voice the immigrant experience of women. Hannah initially suffers from cultural shock, but being resourceful establishes her authentic existence by understanding the new environment utilising her full potential via free choices.

**Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas**

This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing popularised by his best-selling fourth novel, The Slap (2008). The stories collected in Merciless Gods (2014) suggest new ways of thinking about Tsiolkas’s often criticised writing style and his reliance on first-person male narrators. The stories in Merciless Gods also tend to have a more varied and interesting provenance than the single author collection of the successful novelist. This essay therefore considers the original publication contexts of Tsiolkas’s stories and their post-publication editing history. Finally, this essay contextualises Tsiolkas’s stories in relation to some of the structural dynamics of Australian short story publishing over the past three decades, including authorial publishing subsidies, multi-author theme anthologies, and the expansion of university creative writing programs. This suggests that Tsiolkas’s path to Merciless Gods is not unusual for a writer who came of age in the 1990s and achieved success as a novelist in the following decade, even though these dynamics are not necessarily the same for Australian short story writers today.

KĒ. PĀLAMURUKAṈ ‘CURUṬṬU’ CIṞUKATAIYIL KUṬUMPA UṞAVUKAḶ [FAMILY RELATIONSHIP IN K.BALAMURUGAN ‘CURUTTU’ SHORT STORY

This study, based on K. Balamurugan’s "'Suruttu' Short stories: Family Relationships” aims to explore the status of family relationships in short stories. There are various interesting short stories published in recent times. The relationships between family members is essential in the progress of a family and society. Positive family relationships can create prosperous families. Prosperous families can create a good society. Malaysian short story writer K. Balamurugan's short story 'Suruttu' is used as the primary source for this study. K. Balamurugan, who is a Tamil school teacher is a celebrated short stories writer who has written fascinating short stories. He is particularly interested in creating stories for children. This research studies and analyses the importance of family relationships through K. Balamurugan’s 'Suruttu' short stories.

Tradition Versus and Modernity in Laila al-Juhani’s The Waste Paradise: An Intertextual Approach

The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of intertextuality in the novel Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) by the female Saudi novelist and short story writer Laila al-Juhani. Intertextuality is a rhetoric and literary technique defined as a textual reference deliberate or subtle to some other texts with a view of drawing more significance to the core text; and hence it is employed by an author to communicate and discuss ideas in a critical style. The narrative structure of Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) showcases references of religious, literary, historical, and folkloric intertextuality. In analyzing these references, the study follows the intertextual approach. In her novel The Waste Paradise, Laila al-Juhani portrays the suffering of Saudi women who are less tormented by social marginalization than by an inner conflict between openness to Western culture and conformity to cultural heritage. Intertextuality relates to words, texts, or discourses among each other. Moreover, the intertextual relations are subject to reader’s response to the text. The relation of one text with other texts or contexts never reduces the prestige of writing. Therefore, this study, does not diminish the status of the writer or the text; rather, it is in itself a kind of literary creativity. Finally, this paper aims to introduce Saudi writers in general and the female writers in particular to the world literature.

The Representation of Local Wisdom in Short Stories: A Study in North Sumatra

The purpose of writing this article is to provide an analytical study of literary texts associated with the diversity of local wisdom in North Sumatra. The emergence of short story writers in North Sumatra gives a new color in carrying the wisdom of the local culture. The content of short stories loaded with cultural contents is implicitly conveyed to provide knowledge about the culture itself that begins to fade. Problems in this study include how to examine local wisdom in the short stories of North Sumatra authorship. The theory used is Cultural Theory and Literary Anthropology, which is very relevant in exploring aspects of local wisdom in the content of the short stories. Qualitative descriptive methods are used in identifying and analyzing the contents of such short stories and then interpreted in the context of related local cultural wisdom. This of course requires an objective narrative so that the explanation does not deviate from the cultural packages of North Sumatra. The results of the research obtained illustrate the strength of local wisdom that appears in the content of the North Sumatra authorship short story. Aspects of the language system, social system, livelihood system, and arts represent local wisdom from the analysis of north Sumatra's authorship short stories. These values are examined from the background and from dialogues that arise from the contents of short stories and then constructed according to the theory used.

The Famous Short Story Writer’s of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Southern Distracts)

The Famous Short Story Writer’s of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Southern Distracts)

The Ideas that India's Great Nationalist and Patriot, Veer Savarkar, Had.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a notable writer who made progress in the fields of verse, fiction, and brief tale composing. He was likewise a brief tale essayist.. He was also a short story writer.. He was known for his work in all three of these genres. He was an Indian politician who advocated for democratic and secular states, in addition to his other roles as a religious reformer, a social worker, and a liberation warrior for his country. In addition to being a historian, he worked toward improving the quality of the language. In addition to this, he was the first journalist writing in the Marathi language to contribute to newsletters published in countries other than his own. In spite of the fact that he was active in politics, he wrote works of literature, which propelled him from the position of revolutionary patriot to the position of founding father of the Hindu Rashtra or Hindutva ideology. Savarkar did not commit his idea to paper in the form of a book; rather, his writing expresses both his philosophy of life and his straightforward love of intellectual pursuits. [Citation needed] The important ideas that veer Svarkar, a well-known Indian nationalist and patriot, held will be analyzed in this paper so that we can have a better understanding of his perspective. The study combined descriptive and analytical approaches in order to arrive at a result through the application of a qualitative research technique.

U-9 Role of Urdu Literary Magazines in The Tradition of Saleem Akhtar Shinasi

Dr. Saleem Akhtar has been a multi-faceted personality of Urdu literature who has made significant contributions in the field of creation of Urdu language and literature. He has served the Urdu Literature in various fields as a critic, correspondent, sketcher, translator, satirist and short story writer, as well as a writer on general psychology. He not only solved centuries-old literary issues in his shortest history book, but also presented a new way to the readers of literature. He presented new ideas in Criticism and create a lot of books in this regard. He also strengthened the field of Iqbaliyat in all over the world. Due to the literary services of Dr. Saleem Akhtar, a permanent tradition of knowledge of Saleem Akhtar has come into existence in which the role of literary magazines is very important. Various Urdu literary journals set up special sections and published articles by eminent critics through which Saleem Akhtar Shinasi was greatly strengthened

The cultural and social background of Lucknow in the Stories of Naiyer Masud

Literature of any kind and genre can never avoid the essence of life. Literature represents numerous aspects and dimensions of life. Literature, culture and society are interlinked. Collectiveness is the soul of Society. This culture and it’s colours reflect in the writings of the writers. Naiyer Masud is renowned short story writer having immense inclination towards culture and it’s different shades. He had great inclination towards the culture of lucknow. Lucknow was the central city of state of Owaad. This article is an effort to bring forth the cultural and social background of Lucknow in the short of Naiyer Masud.

Hedonism in George Saunder’s The Semplica-Girl Diaries.

George Saunders is an American short story writer. His writings include moral sting and stints of realism. This article is an analysis of one of his famous stories The Semplica-Girl Diaries. The story is a fine example of hedonism which means favouring pleasure and avoiding pain. This article speculates the idea of hedonism in the characters of this story and brings forth the theme of moral myopia. Hedonistic treadmill was at multiple times was being operated by those characters who try to own pleasure in spite of biting bullets. The other elements like American dream and consumerism have been analysed through the lens of narrator.

The Impact of Shelley's Frankenstein of Saadawi's Frankenstein

In spite of the long period of time that has elapsed since monster first appeared in English and Arabic literature, monsters still have both remarkable and effective roles in their literary texts. The roles of monster that have been created over the centuries by their writers are an indicative of the fears and the needs of societies for these monsters, thus they are modified and developed to reflect social anxieties. The aspects of onomastic meanings redo the roles of the monster in Frankenstein in Baghdad; they show entirely the exact roles and characteristics of the monster to the readers. The monster’s names that are given by other characters in the novel can be used as devices to indicate the variety of literary purposes: to emphasize a certain aspect of society which Saadawi is writing on, or even the more traditional method of naming with the express intent of identifying a certain trait or expectation of the monster’s personality. Saadawi names his monster several names in order to convey specific purposes. Each name has separately purpose, and simultaneously, all names have a common goal they have to achieve. The monster in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley (English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer) has mainly affecting on the monster in Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) (Arabic Fiction) by Ahmed Saadawi (Iraqi novelist, poet and screenwriter).

Dimensions of the Stoic for Hemingway, "The Great Sheikh": Santiago as a model

Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the most prominent novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century. His short novel The Sheikh and the Sea is the last notable work of fiction to be published during his lifetime. This novel is also considered a milestone in fictional literature, as it has outstanding literary qualities that enabled its author (Hemingway) to obtain the Nobel Prize. It tells the story of the human tendency to the dilemma of skepticism and faith in the same critical situations. Therefore, the study assumes that there are some decisive factors that created the protagonist, Santiago, as one of the characters representing the Stoic philosophical trend. The study also focuses on Santiago's qualities such as perseverance in strength and patience in his struggle against nature

An Orchestration of National Cultural Memories in the Grand Union of Britons at the Lazy River of Spain

Zadie Smith is a British author, novelist, and short-story writer well known for her portrayal of the interplay of culture, race, and identity in her works. ‘The Lazy River’ is one of the collections of short stories in the book The Grand Union written against the background of Britain leaving the European Union after the Brexit deal. Few stories in this collection signify the British culture and its embodying acts and also, symbolizes Britishers’ association with European countries in diverse forms and cultural acts. Memory studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and literature serves as the medium of memory. Literary fiction is a parallel to the memory system and a placeholder of fictional memories produced as a result of the process of memory creation and it is also perceived as the symbol of culture. The ‘Lazy River’ exemplifies the process of memory creation and the establishment of collective identity. This paper aims to examine the process of memory creation and exploits the act of memory creation as an act of cultural significance for the establishment of identity as a multifarious factor determined by the intersection of socio, political, physical, and psycho effects.

KĒ. PĀLAMURUKAṈ ‘CURUṬṬU’ CIṞUKATAIYIL KUṬUMPA UṞAVUKAḶ [FAMILY RELATIONSHIP IN THE SHORT STORY BY K.BALAMURUGAN

This study, based on K. Balamurugan’s "'Suruttu' Short stories: Family Relationships” aims to explore the status of family relationships in short stories. There are various interesting short stories published in recent times. The relationships between family members is essential in the progress of a family and society. Positive family relationships can create prosperous families. Prosperous families can create a good society. Malaysian short story writer K. Balamurugan's short story 'Suruttu' is used as the primary source for this study. K. Balamurugan, who is a Tamil school teacher is a celebrated short stories writer who has written fascinating short stories. He is particularly interested in creating stories for children. This research studies and analyses the importance of family relationships through K. Balamurugan’s 'Suruttu' short stories.