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{"title":"“Landscape” and “Space Consciousness” in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: Shortfalls in the Analytic Diasporic Eye","authors":"Shuvendu Ghosh, R. Bhushan, Maninder Kapoor","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.011","url":null,"abstract":"The diasporic lens often misses the ground zero reality of the cultural space of the Indian multicultural dynamic. Salman Rushdie dramatized the issue of “space-consciousness” or “borderline-consciousness” of Kashmir, Bangladesh and Bombay in Midnight’s Children from an emotional or cognitive mode of mapping. As a mestize, Rushdie’s portrait of Indian culture, history and politics can never be an accurate estimate of the vastness of the Indian experience. Rushdie as a privileged post-colonial cultural relativist viewed Indian multicultural ethnicity from the top (a colonial male gaze). With the help of the compare and contrast research technique, this paper will try to comprehend the limitations of the diasporic cognitive cultural mapping of Midnight’s Children as opposed to the strengths of a cartographic landscape assessed through discourse analysis. The comprehension of the “Oriental Crisis” in the domain of literature and cultural studies could enable a gauging of the research gap in determining the limitations of “Landscape” and “Space-Consciousness” from an analytic diasporic eye. “New Mestiza Consciousness”, “Landscape”, “Critical Marxism”, “Eco-Feminism” and “Psycho analytic Criticism” under critical discourse analysis are some multicultural perspectives that may help to identify the research gap and the research questions. Indian history and politics have always had a direct influence in shaping Indian culture, and to some extent the east still carries the “White man’s burden” even in estimating one’s indigenous cultural identity and value before the world. Rushdie as a colonial mimic no doubt extended the legacy of the “White man’s / woman’s burden” seeing it from a diasporic eye. The distinction between “self” and “other” is selfcontradictory in any diasporic writing and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is no exception. Saleem’s non-linear narration, imagination, and lack of factual evidence in presenting Indian culture, history and politics are questionable in terms of authenticity before the reader. In Midnight’s Children, Padma, portrayed by Rushdie, as an epistemological, metaphoric, oriental puppet often questions Saleem’s reliability as a narrator.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125594699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of Cultural Memory ad Culinary Nationalism: Revisiting the Bangladesh Liberation War through Nadeem Zaman’s In the Time of the Others","authors":"Namrata Chowdhury","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.003","url":null,"abstract":"The Partition of the Indian subcontinent has been an area rife with scholarship and with the increasing turn towards memory studies, I propose to revisit the site of the borders from the field of gastronomy. The discursive practices employed in the mapping of memories through fictional landscapes and narratives by Nadeem Zaman, the Bangladeshi-American author will potentially open up the spatial coordinates to interpretation, with the focus on the eastern borders and specifically the Bangladesh Liberation War. The history of the nations will be revisited in an attempt to register the challenges of cultural opposition through the culinary registers. The culinary landscape authored by Nadeem Zaman addresses the gaps in the cultural memory of the nationalist movement at the heart of the Bangladesh Liberation War. In The Time of the Others by Nadeem Zaman would re-write the ideas nationalism, through alternate spaces, highlighting the ‘culinary nationalism’. The paper also proposes to situate the culinary register with the broader discipline of memory studies and claim its space in what Alleida Assmann would call the ‘archive’, though ‘trauma’ studies have dominated the ‘canon’ of cultural memory of the Eastern borders of the Indian subcontinent and the Bangladesh Liberation War.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114171869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subaltern perspective in Wide Sargasso Sea: An insight to the Plight of Antoinette","authors":"S. Chaudhary, Dr. Smarika Pareek","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.010","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few decades subaltern studies has gained much momentum. Subaltern studies draw attention towards lives of people who are denied social, political or economic access to hegemonic power of the metropolitan homeland of an empire. Jean’s movement from colonial margins of Dominica to metropolitan center of England gave her new insights into the marginalised treatment a non-native is subjected to. She expressed her feelings through letters that states: “England was terribly cold when I first came there. There was no central heating. There were fires, but they were always blocked by people trying to get warm. And I’d never get into the sacred circle. I was always outside, shivering” (Rhys, 2000, p. 221). The coldness, eviction, subordination, isolation and betrayal she suffered during her stay in England and Europe is extensively portrayed through her texts Rhys through her canonical text, Wide Sargasso Sea attempts to give voice to voiceless Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre. This paper attempts to study Wide Sargasso Sea from subaltern perspective as through this text Rhys has attempted to bring forth the plight of white Creole plantation class who were compelled to live a life of an outcast in West Indies and simultaneously marginalised by native English also have been defined in the abstract.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117071933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning Culture Through Play: A brief study of Nuchhungi’s Mizo Naupangte Infiamna leh a Hla Te","authors":"Lalthangmawii Chhangte, K. C. Lalthlamuani","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.008","url":null,"abstract":"Every culture has its own collection of children’s games and songs. “These children’s games and rhymes and jokes do not exist in isolation: they have echoes in history, anthropology, archeology, literature, popular culture, and art.” (Lurie 189) Collectors of children’s games and scholars of children’s literature have found similarities or connections between games that are played in playgrounds today and customs of the pagan folks of long ago. Mizo children have a variety of singing and nonsinging games which have been handed down from generation to generation. Since in the olden times there were no schools, these games were the main engagements of young children. Some of them must have been among the oldest songs of the Mizo culture. Nuchhungi’s book, “Mizo Naupangte Infiamna leh a Hla Te”, a collection of indigenous games and their accompanying songs commonly played by Mizo children, contains more than seventy singing and non-singing games, forty three traditional children’s songs, and fifteen lullabies. The songs and games collected in this book represent the popular pastimes of Mizo children at different times in history. They provide insight into the life of Mizo children of the past generations who indulged in these pastimes, of the adults’ treatment of them, and of their place in the social hierarchy. Some of the games that have been collected are mimetic representations of adult activities and so inform the present generation of the folk way of life. This paper attempts to look at the ways in which folk culture has been depicted in the indigenous games and songs of Mizo children","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129277804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future of Cultural Studies and the Humanities","authors":"Dr. Amalia Călinescu","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.005","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper discusses the computerised future of cultural studies and the humanities by analysing the relation between theory and practice and the complementarity of science and literature. As a case study, the paper reports briefly on the research project Distorted Temporality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels: A Holistic Approach, which proposes a theoretical and practical approach to the distorted nature of time in Ishigurian characters’ perception. The theoretical and empirical objectives of the study consisted in helping Ishiguro’s readers understand their natural tendency to distort time. The hypotheses and sub-hypotheses were tested using a quantitative approach, through a self-administered questionnaire in English, with closedand open-ended questions. One set of data was collected from 2610 Romanian and foreign respondents, with regard to their perception of time and their interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels. The data set was then analysed using descriptive, inferential, and pathanalysis methods (frequencies, percentages, PLS-PM, t-tests, ANOVA, multiple linear and binary logistic regression, mediation, moderation, and moderated mediation) and two statistical programs (R studio 4.3.4. and WarpPLS 6.0.). The results indicate that, when embraced with an open heart, time distortion becomes a valuable tool for preserving human sanity and orientating human choices, decisions and actions in the right direction. Thus, if combined with the traditional approaches to literature, digital humanities and computational criticism could provide a more accurate image of world literature, far beyond the models of interpretation based on the literary canons.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115263058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Taste of Salt: Identity, Memory and Food Culture of the Mizo Tribe","authors":"Lalnienga Bawitlung","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.009","url":null,"abstract":"The Mizo people are believed to have come from northern Yunnan Province in China to Hukaung Valley in Myanmar around 4 century A.D. and made their entry into the hilly regions of Northeast India, later known as Mizoram, in the late 17 century A.D. This paper attempts to study the nomadic life of the Mizo people that sets them apart from other race in relation to their food and their memory functions. As far as Mizo history books go, Mizo people hardly stayed in a fixed location for long until they entered the present Mizoram; the most likely reasons being feuds and battles. This unsettling life required them to live an extraordinarily simple life to save time since they had to move out from one place to another to escape or strategize at short intervals, which in turn demanded them to prepare their food as simple, easy and quick as possible. There are no complex food cooking processes as such for this tribal people, especially with the local cuisines, even to this day. The term food is generally associated by the Mizo people with rice and whiteness; most of the vegetables or meat were eaten boiled; and half a century back edible-oil was really scarce for its main source was pig fat, salt still rarer and a delicacy. The Mizos say Chibai at greeting and farewell while shaking hands and this particular Mizo word literally translates ‘to cook with salt’ comparing the value of the salt and the gesture to signify treasured bonds between themselves. This study expounds how the simple ways of life of the Mizos, amidst extreme hardships, parallels their memory functions to an extent using their food tradition as a trajectory.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116803649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The (Un)known Epoch: Exploring Dystopian Japan in Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary","authors":"Foong Soon Seng, G. Chandran, Raphael Thoo Yi Xian","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.006","url":null,"abstract":"Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary is set in Japan after a massive and irreparable disaster. The entire country isolates itself from the rest of the world during the post-disaster period. Tawada’s novella probes into the issue of sustainability through the ageing population and natural catastrophes in dystopian Japan. Borrowing the concept of the “Anthropocene”, the present study examines the “human-induced environmental change” that predominantly affected the entire Japanese population. The Emissary provides a glimpse into the notion of social tension in this surreal landscape. Due to environmental degeneration, the dystopian Japanese society is ostensibly suffering from contaminations, extinctions and overpopulation of elderly, while the children, ironically, are born frail, sick and delicate. Tawada’s novella follows the lifestyle of the two main protagonists, Yoshiro and Mumei in the inhabitable, post-apocalyptic Japanese society. As the Japanese government imposes a strict isolation policy, it captures how both Yoshiro and Mumei cope and react with the perils that the disaster imposes. The novella further satirizes the futuristic Japanese society by envisioning a distressing dysfunctional society that predominantly deals with the aftermath of the catastrophe. The Kafkaesque depiction of the regressive post-apocalyptic Japanese dystopian society in the novella further reimagines humans’ environmental adaptation for survival.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126724145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Contagion and the Working Women","authors":"Zahra Ahmad","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.013","url":null,"abstract":"The covid-19 pandemic caused by a Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) turned the whole world upside down. Maintaining social distancing is the mantra these days due to corona induced issues. It had a far-reaching impact in manifold ways affecting every field. Economic activities came to a standstill, millions lost their lives and livelihood across the world. The education system, healthcare sector, hospitality sector, small scale business and several others were equally challenged. This unprecedented situation has created a precarious and fearful culture affecting even at the individual level. The marginalized and othered group being the worst suffers. The working women already doubly marginalized due to the patriarchal setup had to bear the brunt of the contagion to a far greater extent. Social media is flooded with news, articles regarding the exponential increase of atrocious and oppressive forces on them in Covidian times. The culture created has a hazardous effect. Culture is a way of life, that includes behaviour patterns, religious beliefs and traditions. Since cultural studies has broadened the purview of the study of literature, the unheard voices of the marginalized section thereby find a space in contemporary times. This paper intends to showcase the implications of Covid-19 on working women through the lens of cultural studies.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Speculative Fiction, Biocapitalism and Being Tentacular: Reading the MaddAddam trilogy as Posthuman Saga","authors":"Swagata Ray","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the posthuman ideas that are ingrained within the narrative of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. The paper will identify various philosophical challenges posed by biocapitalism and a hyperhumanist ideology, while tracing the counter narrative through the critical framework of resistance provided by the critical humanist school of thought in particular. By reading into the writings of K Sundar Rajan and Nicholas Rose, the paper dwells on the issue of biocapital and its commodification of life, and also attempts to read an interventionist politics into the idea of bio-power which Mitchel Foucault posits. It also tries to provide an antithesis to the capitalocene and its subsidiary biocapitalism through an understanding of Donna Haraway’s concepts of critter and chuthulucene.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131748142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Past, the Present, and the Future: Memory and Literature as Gateways from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century With a focus on Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival","authors":"A. Classen","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i1.001","url":null,"abstract":"The crucial question we are facing today in the Humanities pertains to the issue of how we engage with the past and how we converse with literary or philosophical voices from the Middle Ages, for instance, and recover their relevance for us today. This paper examines the meaning of cultural history at first and then turns to two major voices from the past to illustrate the central concern, first the late antique philosopher Boethius (d. 525), then Wolfram von Eschenbach (active ca. 1200‒1220). Both endeavored to explore the meaning of human life and offered intriguing perspectives that appear to have timeless value. Whereas Boethius investigated the issue of how the individual can productively face or dismiss mis/fortune and thereby gain an understanding of the true meaning of happiness, Wolfram outlined in his Grail romance Parzival how the human individual must forge his/her path through life in order to discover the true goal of one’s self. While the future is waiting for us, we can prepare ourselves by listening to those past voices as guides through all existence.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116810608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}