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{"title":"Revisiting Menace in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance in the Covid-19 Era","authors":"Zied Khamari","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.005","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of the COVID-19 in the recent years raised concerns over the welfare and health conditions of the human being, and urged people to reconsider their existence amid this unexpected pandemic. Following the confinement that health authorities all over the world have imposed on citizens to limit the spread of the disease and curb the incredibly increasing number of deaths, some people resorted to the realm of literature seeking relief and consolation, and discovered that threats have always shaped the life of humans throughout history. In reality, various authors addressed the concept of menace and presented life-threatening situations in their works. Edward Albee, for instance, tackles the idea of menace in A Delicate Balance through the introduction of a mysterious plague that destabilized the existence of all the characters. Like the COVID-19 threat, the unknown terror in the play put the lives of the family members at risk and pushed them to question their very existence. The present article, then, seeks to explore Albee’s conceptualization of menace in his work and investigate the overlapping commonalities between the Coronavirus and the plague that has greatly affected the perception and subsistence of the characters and mankind.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129818958","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":"Failing to Bury the Giant: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Violence in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Seventh Novel","authors":"Amalia Călinescu","doi":"10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.018","url":null,"abstract":"If The Buried Giant had been intended as a historiographic metafiction, its setting could have been replaced with recent locations having witnessed great wars, but then Kazuo Ishiguro would have unwillingly written a reportage-like novel instead of a historical fantasy dealing with magical ways of forgetting past atrocities in order to secure a peaceful future. While in his previous novels Ishiguro introduces only mental monsters, in The Buried Giant the characters are sent searching for their forgotten past in a post-Arthurian England with ogres that carry off children, pixies that render people ill and dragons that can erase all memories. The current study proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of The Buried Giant, drawing upon psychology, game theory and behavioural economics in order to convey personal and collective violence in connection to power, racism, trauma and spatio-temporal mobility. In the end, all events stem from choices and decisions, which are essentially emotional.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"68 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132228199","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":"Revisiting the History of Konark through Pratibha Ray’s Citadel of Love","authors":"Juhee Panda, Dr. Mukesh Tiwar","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.012","url":null,"abstract":"Odisha is widely acknowledged as the land of temples all over the world. It has a distinct recognition because of its rich culture and tradition. Konark temple which is also known by the name of “Black Pagoda”, is an ageless artifice created by King Narasingha Deva, a ruler of the Ganga dynasty. It was built in the thirteenth century near the district of Puri, Odisha. The temple is built resembling the Kalinga architecture, by the eminent architect Bishu Maharana, as stated in the history of Odisha. Pratibha Ray, as a writer, has a unique skill of blending myths, lore, and legends with supernaturalism and superstitions, presenting them in a new light. In most of her writings, these thematic elements are dominant. For instance, Adibhoomi, Ygayaseni, Silapadma, Magnamati are some of her seminal works. Some of them have been rendered in English like Citadel of Love, After the Deluge, and The Primal Land, for its popularity and fame. Ray has beautifully narrated the history of the making of Konark with a fusion of magic realism. This paper aims to highlight the history of Konark Temple through the author’s masterpiece Citadel of Love.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114287727","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 Dynamics of Gendered Spaces in Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies","authors":"Jesna Joseph","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.002","url":null,"abstract":"The interactions of human agency in the totality of space creates different social structures. Feminist Geography offers a self-reflexive analysis of regimes of power that operates in everyday life. The gendered divisions in society are responsible for creating the different patterns of spatial activity, experience and behaviour. Giving insight into a traditional Islamic society, Omani writer, JokhaAlharthi’s Celestial Bodies (2018) is a criticism against dominant ideologies and power hegemony. The paper analyses the critical relationship between gendered and spatial segmentation and challenges their supposed naturalness and validity. The unequal power relations that exist within the society produce different patterns of spatial relations with respect to access to public and private spaces. Through the theoretical framework of Feminist Geography, the paper criticises the gendered divisions of space and problematises the attempt of the enduring subjects to free themselves from the narrow space of patriarchal imagination and re-invent their lives in a space of their own.Keywords: Past and present, Timeless Humanities, Boethius, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Path through Life, Relevance of Literature, Philosophy.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114738354","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":"Pandemic as a Metaphor for Moral Degeneration in Tagore’s Rajarshi","authors":"Ananya Chatterjee","doi":"10.48189/nl.2021.v02i2.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2021.v02i2.006","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shall unpack the Pandemic by reading the metaphor of moral degradation that gets regularly associated with disease and death. Tagore’s novel contemplates this metaphorical association and undoes it by locating human agency outside of naturalized morality. The paper establishes Tagore’s modernist understanding of human agency and responsibility through two characters – Gobindamanikya and Bilwan. The protagonist, Gobindamanikya, exemplifies Tagore’s personal form of Virtue ethics, whereas in Bilwan we see a more practical equivalent of that Virtue ethics in the form of an ethics of care. A formidable opposition to their ethical positions is provided by the character of Raghupati, who invokes the natural order to establish a deontological view of reality. Within this naturalistic deontological worldview, calamities like the pandemic become almost an agreeable occurrence, thus testing the validity of both the positions of Bilwan and Gobindamanikya. By looking at the thanatopolitics of the pandemic situation in the Indian subcontinent, this paper will analyse the assumptions about moral degeneration that cropped up during an epidemic in Tripura. The absence of a mature understanding of the human-nature relation results in conflicting moral stances on both the individual level and between two different religious communities. The paper will explain how the central characters stage a denaturalization of traditional authority through the moral intervention of the central characters. Tagore’s novel establishes a mature vintage point from which humanitarian action can be conducted in the event of an epidemic or pandemic.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"7981 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125538999","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":"Feminist Perspective on Patriarchy: Its Impact on the Construction of Femininity and Masculinity","authors":"Dr. Manjari Johri","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.001","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of patriarchy has traditionally been used to analyze women's oppression, subordination, and subjection in a social order where men are perceived as superior to women. Gender inequality has been the chief area of feminist concern and protest since the first movement of feminism. Subsequently, feminists demanded gender parity and resisted discrimination based on sex, class, caste, race, and sexual orientation. It surfaced that roles ascribed to men and women were an outcome of socialization that had been deeply internalized leading to socially accepted notions of femininity and masculinity. I will explore the concept of patriarchy and discuss how such a social template for men and women becomes an oppressive injunction, that is subscribed to for seeking acceptability and validation. Perspectives of sociologists, such as Max Weber, Sylvia Walby, Alan Johnson, and Anthony Giddens, will be incorporated to explain the concept of Patriarchy, along with the writings of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir and Judith Butler.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130321843","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":"War, Dissent and Resistance: An Analysis of Malalai Joya’s A Woman Among Warlords","authors":"Anisa Fathima","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.014","url":null,"abstract":"The democratic-reconstruction measures that were employed in Afghanistan following the USled invasion in late 2001 were riddled with problems, one of which related to the composition of the new government. The inclusion of warlords in the nation-building process, although it made strategic sense for the fledgling government, resulted in the reproduction of cycles of violence and was particularly detrimental to the interests of women, whose supposed liberation was at the centre of the War on Terror discourse. This paper examines this phenomenon through the eyes of Malalai Joya, who, in her memoir A Woman Among Warlords provides an insightful account of the radical, misogynist warlords who occupied positions of power in the newly formed government. As a young female politician in a historically male domain, Joya is a rare voice of resistance against her government and the American military. In raising her voice against the power holders, Joya subverts the dominant narrative of the war, especially pertaining to the liberation of Afghan women. She argues that by colluding with the warlords, the US and the Karzai administration were complicit in allowing violence to continue in political and social spheres. This paper argues that the US-led invasion largely failed to make any concrete ideological transformation and instead aided the reestablishment of oppressive power structures, especially in Afghanistan’s provinces.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130443713","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":"A Psychoanalytic Study of Gillian Flynn’s Amy Elliott Dunne with reference to Lacan’s Three Stages of Identity Formation","authors":"S. Benazir","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.011","url":null,"abstract":"Gone Girl is a crime fiction by the American author Gillian Flynn which provides a psychological insight into the mind and motive of the central character, Amy Elliott Dunne. The novel starts with Nick, the husband coming under police scrutiny in the case of his wife Amy, who goes missing on the very day of their fifth wedding anniversary. However, as the case gradually unfolds, the scenario gets much more complex. The character of Amy is portrayed as intricately complex and multi-layered. A close reading and psychoanalysis of the character of Amy show that her actions and behaviour patterns are a reflection of her ingrained identity formation. This paper intends to study the psyche behind the actions and behavioural patterns of Amy Elliott Dunne, the protagonist in Flynn’s Gone Girl, with reference to Lacan’s three stages of identity formation.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115552888","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":"Translating Word to Image: Retelling of A Passage to India","authors":"Kavita Patil","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.005","url":null,"abstract":"In this research paper I investigate David Lean, an English film director’s, attempt of adapting E. M. Forster’s English novel A passage to India into the film. This adaptation seems to be compelling, trying to be ‘faithful’ to the original. If the words in the novel make the reader imagine various aspects of the encounter between the ‘native’ and the ‘coloniser’, the images in the film propel the audience not just to see but interpret these encounters. Adela’s bicycle ride, although, is not in the novel, its inclusion in the film conveys what was left to be interpreted or the act of ‘reading between the text’ for the reader of the novel. Each film adaptation is a separate event and does not have to follow a particular theory; neither in terms of film making and nor for description, interpretation, or analysis. However, in academia, where participants in the literary/cinematic discourses are expected to have read the original works of art (plays, novels, and short stories), adaptations intentionally or unintentionally face the fate of being compared to the original. A Passage to India appears to be an example of how concepts, ‘mimicry’ and ‘hybridisation’ from post-colonial theory help to see the adaptation in new light","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124453640","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":"Globalism avant la lettre from a Late Medieval and Early Modern German Perspective: The Niederrheinische Orientbericht, Adam Olearius, and Jesuit Missionaries Across the Globe","authors":"A. Classen","doi":"10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.003","url":null,"abstract":"The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a tremendous growth of globalism, at least in terms of European outreach and interest. We can identify this phenomenon particularly well through two different and independent sources, first, the publication of Adam Olearius’s Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen vnd Persischen Reyse, 1647, and then the growth of Jesuit reports about their missionary activities all over the world carefully collected and published by Joseph Stoecklein ca. hundred years later in his highly popular Welt-Bott, compiled and published since 1726. Globalism is, of course a complex term, both for today and for the past. Everything depends on the narrator’s perspective, the engagement with the other culture/s, and the reciprocity. Olearius appears to have achieved a major breakthrough with his travels to Russia and then later to Persia, introducing much of Persian culture to Germany. The Jesuits (Eusebio Kino, Ignaz Pfefferkorn, Joseph Och, et al.) provided their German (!) readers with astoundingly precise comments and reports about the New World in northern Mexico and in the province of Sonora (today, partly Arizona), while their many colleagues globally contributed their own reports about all four corners of this world. Combining these two perspectives, we can identify a very early but already very strong effort to learn more about the foreign world, to overcome the otherness (from a Eurocentric perspective), and to create a global platform far beyond what travelogue authors such as Marco Polo or Odorico da Pordenone had achieved in the fourteenth century, irrespective of their extraordinarily extensive travels to China. This paper, however, will begin, after I have reflected on the latest theoretical approaches to Global Studies, with a most unusual eye-witness account from ca. 1350, and then pursue the discourse on globalism as it developed over the following centuries, crossing several periodical barriers and bridging different narrative genres within the Germanlanguage context.","PeriodicalId":205595,"journal":{"name":"New Literaria","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121866493","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}