Running notes on Black Aesthetic Movement

how slave narrative came to be called literature. the slave narrative start a literary tradition. emotive language. emotive situation. the pathos of the position of the narrator. oral histories language is strikingly similar in structure, content and theme. a corpus of non- fiction and fiction, oral and written, which asserts the equality, differentness -and sometimes [...]

The Red rebels and the trend followers: JNU fashion

We all know that story. God told Mr. Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit. Nevertheless, he eventually did. Well, this Mr. Adam was the first student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (technical not but ideologically yes). Nested in a thousand-acre campus, JNU forms a world of its own. The walls of the administrative block, the [...]

THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE: the politics of Marijuana, socio-political alienation, identity and construction of reality

All civilizations set rules concerning what is “real” and what is not. They set rules regarding what is “true” and what is “false”. All societies select data that would help declare the “real world”. Each one of these artificial constructed worlds is to some degree idiosyncratic and unique. Our perceptions are guided by concepts and [...]

Translating from Bangla to English : Sarat Chandra Chattopadyay’s “Abhagir Sorgo” recreated as “The Heaven of the Wretched”

Translation is confusing or to use a word that is always in vogue in literature: problematic. Translation is problematic. All literary works are an act of translation. When a writer creates a text, he translates the abstract images in his/her mind into definite language. Thereby the writer indulges in translations that change from one form [...]

History as a colonizing and de-colonizing tool : alternative history of Black Americans

History ceased to be something for historians alone. Instead, it is become both a public issue and an instrument of politics. Written histories rely on a willing complicity between author and audience. Being subject to the narrative and descriptive strategies of language, which unfold sequentially, they require the active collaboration of the reader in construing [...]

Poetry and fiction of D. H. Lawrence

I am that I am from the sun, and people are not my measure. (“Aristocracy of the Sun“) In Lawrence’s poetry, more than in his prose, we see frequently the spontaneous discovering of Being. To Lawrence the beauty of the universe is a perpetual creation. The universe is not an abstraction, not an intellectual discovery [...]

Aboriginal Australians: language, nationality and the pastoral

White Australian celebrated two hundred years of colonization in 1988. Much has changed in the relations between the races in Australia since 1988. There have been great advances as well as catastrophic setbacks. In 1993 the Native Titles Act was passed, granting land rights to indigenous Australians who could prove continuity of occupation and some [...]

THE GREAT GATSBY, f. scott fitzgerald [book review]

the fallen angel with burning feathers No work of art can be created in a vacuum. The socio-political and economical factors of the time pervades the work. Evidently “The Great Gatsby” is deeply rooted in the 1920s. Fitzgerald chronicles the age deftly in the novel. Fetzgerald dubbed the 1920s as “the jazz age”. The ban [...]