{"title":"EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESECRATION: AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW YELLOW","authors":"Samuel B. Adewumi","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9308","url":null,"abstract":"No doubt, numerous scholars have carried researches out on Nigeria’s squalid state after her independence. The focus of many of these studies range from investigating many of the topical issues that have come to define the country— from war, economy, to politicking. However, not many scholars have paid the enough attention to the ecological concerns of Nigerians. This paper, therefore, examines Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow as a testament to the environmental mindfulness of Kaine Agary, Nigerian novelists. The choice of this text is informed by the fact that there is a dearth of serious scholarly research on the novel. Using the theory of Ecocriticism, this study finds out that the author, Agary, is not unaware of the ecological implications of man’s exploitative tendencies on earth’s resources. In fact, he uses his work to berate these forces that promote the unchecked desecration of the mother earth, using the Niger Delta region of Nigeria as a case study.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"200 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76960496","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":"MELANCHOLIA AND PESSIMISM IN SOME OF THOMAS HARDY’S POEMS","authors":"Dr. Norah Hadi Q. Alsaeed","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9113","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Hardy is one of the poets of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the twentieth century’s poetics. More than two thirds of his poems dealt with many topics that are not absent, as they fluctuate between frustration, pessimism, loss, pain, death and life. One of the poet's creations, the unidentified speaker used it to express his point of view about life, death, despair, and other beautiful negative topics. These works require a lot of research and study to decipher the cause of the despair and depression that clouded the works of the poet Thomas Hardy. Despite the pessimistic view of life in many of his poems, it is, from the critics' point of view, attractive in its presentation. Where his pessimism is not considered a disease, but rather a point of view worthy of study and analysis. This paper will shed light mainly on the seeds of the poet’s pessimism and how he presents the literary pessimism in a very attractive literary device.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84240927","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":"ENHANCING COMMUNICATIVE & LSRW SKILLS TO THE STUDENTS OF RURAL BACKGROUND AT UNDER-GRADUATE LEVEL: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Khader Be","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9403","url":null,"abstract":"The classical assumption that academic knowledge is an end in itself had undergone a tremendous change in the present global scenario where proficiency in spoken and written forms of English has acquired enormous importance. The market is always gutted with people possessing knowledge in medicine, engineering, architecture, accountancy etc. But the person who has knowledge plus ability to express his ideas coherently and undoubtedly is headed for higher success rate. We hear the fashionable rate phrase good communication skills widely bandied about these days. The art of communication has become a sine qua non for success in every sphere of life. Without good communication skills, one cannot function effectively, whether as a housewife or businessman, office secretary or club secretary, employee or employer, information hunter or bargain hunter, colleague or friend.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91231991","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":"QUESTIONING NOVELTY IN LITERATURE: MAHASWETA DEVI","authors":"Dr Bhaskor Chandra Dutta","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9116","url":null,"abstract":"Mahasweta Devi enlightens the literature of the downtrodden people. She thinks that the history of India should be re-written. It is only the history of the people from the main stream of the society. The new history should be written focusing on the backward people. Throughout her life she makes documentation for the tribal people in her writings and activism. She writes and fights for the establishment of the rights for the Indian subaltern people. She thinks writing in a novel way. She dreams of a new society - a society for the underprivileged society.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80169075","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":"CONSONANTAL SYSTEM OF SHERPA","authors":"Mustafizur Rahman, Prof. S. Ganesh Baskaran","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9101","url":null,"abstract":"The present study “Consonantal system of Sherpa” discusses the Sherpas of Sikkim mainly settled in South and West District. According to the Census of India 2001, the total speaker of Sherpa in Sikkim is 13,922. However, Denzong Sherpa Association claims that the population of Sherpa is more than 65,000 out of which more than 32,000 people speak their Mother Tongue in their native environment particularly in the home domain. Linguistically, Robert Shafer has divided Tibeto-Burman into four main groups: Bodic, Baric, Burmic and Karenic. According to Shafer, Sherpa belongs to the Central Unit of the Bodish Section within the Bodic Sub-division of Sino-Tibetan. The present paper attempts to describe the Consonantal system of Sherpa. Sherpa has twenty six (26) consonantal sounds. It has fourteen stops i.e., /p, pʰ, b, t, tʰ, d, ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, c, cʰ, k, kʰ, ɡ/, four nasals /m, n, ɲ, ŋ/, four fricatives /s, ʃ, ʒ, h/ one lateral /l/one trill /r/ and two semi-vowels; bilabial semi-vowel /w/ and palatal semi-vowel /j/. Consonant combination in Sherpa can be classified into two categories these are: (i) consonant cluster (ii) consonant sequence. Sherpa has initial and medial consonant clusters that occur within the syllabic boundary. Sherpa has a wide variety of consonant sequences. Gemination, Homorganic and Contagious are the Consonant sequences found in Sherpa Language.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83841003","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":"ANALYSING THE ANTISEMITIC CONSTRUCT OF FAGIN THROUGH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OF STEREOTYPES","authors":"Tanya Singh","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9201","url":null,"abstract":"Fagin in Dickens’ Oliver Twist unveils the English literary tradition and social reality of London Street Jews revealing antisemitism as a part of the Victorian culture. To create an archetypal supervillain who endangers the life of innocent juveniles, Dickens borrows from the antisemitic literary customs of his time to create a villainous character approved and hated; a Jew. Fagin’s exaggerated characterisation is modelled on medieval antisemitism and is reflective of Dickens’ antisemitic ideology and the then social reality of Jews living on London Streets. Dickens accepts and reflects on the antisemitism of his age to establish a Jew as the immutable villain of the London society. This paper critiques the antisemitic unconscious of Dickens reflected through the character of Fagin and further analyses his method of creation impregnated with elements of literary and traditional antisemitism for his villainous portrayal.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90538946","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":"MARITAL MALADJUSTMENT AND DISPOSITION IN ANITA DESAI’S ‘BYE-BYE BLACK BIRD’","authors":"A. Kiranmayee, P. Padmavathi","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9212","url":null,"abstract":"Literature is one of the most prevailing and ancient ways of understanding life as well as the world. Especially women and literature are clearly related to each other because women writings revealed the true state of society and its treatment of women. Unlike other writers Anita Desai didn't use conventional and not influenced by folk tales, myths and epics but presented her novels in realistic manner by adapting current problems related to woman-man relationship, cultural conflicts, disposition, mangled psyche and marital maladjustment. Bye- Bye Black bird is such a novel. The story deals with two main characters Dev and Adit in London. Adit an Anglophile turns into a hopeless nostalgic returnee and Dev an Anglophobe turns into a hopeful Anglicized inhabitant of London. Sarah, an English woman, moves away from her parents and marries Adit. The Conflict idea between the Indianess of Adit and Sarah’s own Western self runs in her mind throughout the novel. This paper mainly aims to analyze marital maladjustment in Anita Desai’s Bye- Bye Black Bird.\"","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78767599","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":"SOCIETAL OPPRESSION: A STUDY OF ARUNDATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS","authors":"Dr. Amara Rama Devi","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9117","url":null,"abstract":"The God of Small Things throws light upon hierarchical structures of power, and oppression at various levels in patriarchal societies. Arundati Roy explores how these differences of caste, gender and race, function through social institutions and the way they affect human interactions and relationships. In this paper, an attempt is made to show how the novel highlights the interrelationships of all power structures to shape society. The “Big Things” – the things in power, indicating in the end that the God of small things is an absent god, a god of loss.The God of Small Things throws light upon hierarchical structures of power, and oppression at various levels in patriarchal societies. Arundati Roy explores how these differences of caste, gender and race, function through social institutions and the way they affect human interactions and relationships. In this paper, an attempt is made to show how the novel highlights the interrelationships of all power structures to shape society. The “Big Things” – the things in power, indicating in the end that the God of small things is an absent god, a god of loss.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90299668","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":"KIRAN DESAI’S PRESENTATION OF THE CHARACTERS FROM DIASPORIC PERSPECTIVE IN THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS","authors":"Kalpana Rani Kalapala, Dr.E. Bhavani","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9306","url":null,"abstract":"The Inheritance of Loss requires background information on two major historical movements in India. The first is British colonial rule in India and eventual Indian independence. At the end of the 16th century, the British aimed to challenge the Portuguese monopoly of trade with Asia. The British East India Company was chartered to carry on the spice trade. In the mid18th century, the British forces, whose duty until then consisted of protecting Company property, teamed up with the commander in chief of the Bengali army, Mir Jafar, to overthrow the leader of Bengal. Jafar was then installed on the throne as a British subservient ruler. The British then realized their strength and potential for conquering smaller Indian kingdoms, and by the mid-19th century, they had gained direct or indirect control over all of present-day India. In 1857, the Indian Rebellion of 1857 took place in an attempt to resist the company’s control of India. The British defeated the rebellion, and the British crown formally took over India and it came under direct British rule and the Indian Civil Service (ICS). The ICS was originally headed by British state officials, but these were gradually replaced by Indian officials in order to appease the public.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83577426","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 USE OF THE SHORT STORY ENTRANCE IN LEARNING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE","authors":"Hamad Al-ajmi","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9103","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to research the possibility of using the literary story entrance in learning English for students with English language learning difficulties in Kuwaiti schools, by identifying the concept of the short story, the difference between the short story, the novel and the literary play, the components and elements of the short story, the elements of the short story, characteristics The short story, methods of presenting short stories for learning English, criteria for building a short story for learning English, the benefits and functions of short stories and their role in learning English. The study used the inductive approach to describe a specific thing, which leads to the conclusion of another thing, and access to the results, so the inductive approach depends largely on the teacher's observation of the learner. The results of the study concluded that the teacher’s use of the story entrance in teaching English has an effective role in improving the language skills of students with learning difficulties in the English language.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":"74 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72466384","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}