Women Struggling for Freedom in the Face of Oppression Nefissa in the Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El Saadawi‚ Zabeth in A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul‚ The Mirabal sisters in A Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa‚ and Zaynab in Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz all struggled for freedom against their oppressive environments. Nefissa struggled in obtaining her freedom in Egypt where men told women how to behave. Zabeth struggled in her journey through the harsh physical environment of Africa
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’The Empire Writes Back’ will have been a fitting title for this essay collection. (especially since Achebe doesn’t fail to pay a tribute to Salman Rushdie’s essay of the same name published in 1982). Because that is what the running theme here is - a reclamation of a land and a culture that was wrested away with brutal force and made a part of an ’Empire’ which still insists on viewing that period as one of glory and not characterized by the most despicable human rights violation ever and a heralding
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Diaspora Literature - A Testimony of Realism By Shaleen Singh Diaspora Literature involves an idea of a homeland‚ a place from where the displacement occurs and narratives of harsh journeys undertaken on account of economic compulsions. Basically Diaspora is a minority community living in exile. The Oxford English Dictionary 1989 Edition (second) traces the etymology of the word ’Diaspora’ back to its Greek root and to its appearance in the Old Testament (Deut: 28:25) as such it references. God’s
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itself‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ as a group in displacement. The present anthology examines the works of key writers‚ many now based across the globe in Canada‚ Denmark‚ America and the UK – V.S. Naipaul‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Balachandra Rajan‚ M.G. Vassanji‚ Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Gautam Malkani‚ Shiva Naipaul‚ Tabish Khair and Shauna Singh Baldwin‚ among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of Indian diasporas. Corelating the concept of diaspora – literally
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XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: the xlri interview I cam across ‚ this guy really worked hard ‚ here is his interview: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset‚I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction‚but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics‚and did not achieve anything significant in last 20 odd years of existence
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Desai‚ K. (2006). The inheritance of loss. New York: Grove Press. “The Inheritance of Loss” opens with a teenage Indian girl who is an orphan named Sai. She is living with her grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong part of the Indian Himalayas. The grandfather is a Cambridge-educated Anglophile. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan. He is the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary so their love seems uncertain from the beginning. He eventually recoils from her
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Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting
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Poet’s Page Poems Comments Stats Arthur Nortje : Letter from Pretoria Central Prison The bell wakes me at 6 in the pale spring dawn with the familiar rumble of the guts negotiating murky corridors that smell of bodies. My eyes find salutary the insurgent light of distances. Waterdrops rain crystal cold‚ my wet face in ascent from an iron basin greets its rifled shadow in the doorway. They walk us to the workshop. I am eminent‚ the blacksmith of the block: these active hours
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language‚ including literature written in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example‚ Robert Burns was Scottish‚ James Joyce was Irish‚ Joseph Conrad was born in Poland‚ Dylan Thomas was Welsh‚ Edgar Allan Poe was American‚ V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad‚ and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian‚ but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words‚ English literature is as different as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world
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