THE LITERARYJOURNAL OF POST

MODERNISM

LabyrinthVol.1 / No.1 March 2010

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LATA MISHRA

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Board of AdvisorsDr. Bran Nicol - Reader in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Director of Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouth (UK)

Albert Russo - Fictionist and Poet in English and French, recipient of The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards and the Prix Colette.

Dr. TS Chandra Mouli - Poet, Translator, Critic, Associate Professor (Retd.), Railway College, Secunderabad, AP

Dr. Amrendra Sharma - Dept. of Linguistics, Dhofar University, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman

Dr. Rajkamal Shiromani - PG & Research Department of English, TM Bhagalpur University, Bihar

Prof. OP Budholia - Critic & Scholar, Gwalior, MP

Dr. KV Dominic - PG & Research Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala

Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi - A Poet-academic, HOD (English), Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya (Vidyasagar University), WB

Dr. P Raja - Author and Freelancer, Associate Professor, Tagore (Govt.) Arts College, Pondicherry

Aju Mukhopadhyay - A bilingual poet, essayist, and fiction writer, Pondicherry

Dr. Binod Mishra - Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, UK

EditorDr. Lata MishraAssistant Professor, PG Dept. of English Studies & Research

Govt. KRG (Autonomous) PG College, Gwalior, MP

Associate EditorDr. Gavarappan BaskaranAssociate Professor, Research Centre in English

VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, TN

LabyrinthThe Bi-annual Literary Journal of Postmodernism

Vol.1 - No.1 March 2010

ISSN 0976-0814

Table of Contents

Smile for Sale: A Study of Relational Truths in Shashi Tharoor's The Five -Dollar Smile - 07

- Amrendra K Sharma

The Fluid and the Fixed: Subject in Lacan and Delueze - 13

- Bilal A. ShahImage as Meaning: A Study of the Select Poems of Vikram Seth - 25

- L Judith SophiaDebating Multiculturalism: A Study of the Fictional Narratives of Jhumpa Lahiri and Sudha Murthy - 33

- Dhishna PannikotIn Search of a 'Balming Climate': A FeministReading of Kamala Das's Select Poems - 40

- KS Anish Kumar Changing Trends in Translation Studies - 49

- T Sai Chandra MouliImmortality through Nature in Temsula Ao'sLaburnum for My Head - 57

- A J Sebastian SdbWhat about our own roots?: Problematising Education and Philosophy in R.K.Narayan's The English Teacher - 64

- Arun Kr. MukhopadhyayI don't know nothing about teaching students who use double negatives: The Big Grammar Use Questions for Teachers in Writing - 81

- Abha Gupta A Dissect on the Imagery of Women in Amitav Ghosh’sThe Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide - 89

- N. JaishreeQuest of Modern Man: From Angst to Love - 96

- Devasree Chakravarti, G.A. GhanshyamRuskin's Practical Criticism: A Modernist's Approach - 104

- Krishna SinghRuth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder: A Comic Vignette of Indian Society - 119

- M. Meena Devi, Bhaskaran GavarappanA Study of Globalisation, Nationalism and Subalterns (Women) in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh - 126

- Anju Bala Agrawal

Suffering Precedes Spiritual Enlightenment: A Study of R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher - 136

- Amandeep RanaDimensions of self-imposed sufferings during the freedom struggle. A Critical Study of Chandramoni Narayanaswamy's Novel The Karans Of Penang - 144

- P C K PremColonial Child - Caught in the Cross Fire of Cultural Conflict - 159

- Lakshmi SistlaWomanism in Ngugi's Devil on The Cross and Nwapa's One is Enough - 167

- S.S.V.N. SakuntalaWhose Tradition and Whose Individual Talent:A Paradigm of Indian English Novels - 173

- Binod MishraInterview with Sunil Sharma - 180

- Jaydeep Sarangi

Short StoriesThe Wounds of A Sister - Albert Russo - 191The Sinner - P. Raja - 196

PoetryShanta Acharya - Hunger - 199Sukrita P Kumar-High and Low, Ambers in the Pacific - 200Arbind Kumar Choudhary - Love, Nature - 201Aju Mukhopadhyay- At the river bank, The Train - 39, 201Farzana Quader- Dear Neruda - 202Prof. Pashupati Jha - Civilization: A Progress Report - 203P. Raja - Oh, To be a Poet, Lessons in Love - 48, 172Hemang A Desai - Dusk, An Old House, Dream...Web -166, 204

Book ReviewsAcceptance, Rejection, Compromise: Three One Act Play

(Trilogy) by Pranab Kumar Majumder - K. V. Dominic - 205The Treatment of The Themes of Mortality in The Poetry of

the Bronte Sisters by Yana Rowland - Rajni Singh - 208Explorations in Indian English Drama by T. Sai Chandra Mouli

and M. Sarat Babu - Ram Sharma - 210

List of Contributors - 213

Smile for Sale: A Study of Relational Truths in

Shashi Tharoor's The Five-Dollar Smile

Wallace Stevens finds 'thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.' Likewise, someone may discover one hundred and thirteen ways of looking at a truth. Or maybe there are just as many truths and not 'the truth'. In fact, the multiplicity of truth, in a subtle way, reminds us of a 'correspondence theory of truth.' This theory states that truth is related to a fact - a view that was

thadvocated by Russell and Moore early in the 20 century. However, according to some perceptive researchers (working in Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University ) “this label is usually applied much more broadly to any view explicitly embracing the idea that truth consists in a relation to reality, i.e., that truth is a relational property involving a characteristic relation (to be specified) to some portion of reality (to be specified).”

This article would try to explore the relational (or corresponding) nature of truth in Shashi Tharoor's story titled The Five-Dollar Smile through the following:

1) People's perception of the marginalised other (here represented by Joseph Kumaran)

2) Joseph's desire for assimilation with the 'others', and through it, his attempt to forge an identity, and the 'others'' response to it

3) The other boys' attitude to the 'five-dollar smile' poster4) The other face of NGOs

Here it may sound apt to explain the process of 'othering.' Kayyal defines it as “a process in which society creates a 'we' and a 'they,' resulting in the majority dominating over the minority.” It is the majority that thrives and their ideas and opinions are passed from one generation to the next. At times, it is also viewed as having opposite or radically different ideas. As different people are brought up in different atmosphere, they grow up with different

Amrendra K SharmaManju Roy

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The Fluid And The Fixed: Subject In Lacan And Deleuze

Abstract:The paper proposes a threefold comparison and contrast between the Lacanian and the Deleuzian views on the subject. First, I argue that both Lacan and Deleuze problematize the Liberal Humanist Cartesian notion of an autonomous, transcendental subject that the Humanists so valued and took for granted. Second, Lacan highlights and focuses the lack in the constitution of the subject while Deleuze`s focus is on the productive desire. Finally, Deleuze's project in Anti-Oedipus is to attain the production of desiring-machine through scrambling and demolishing Lacan's Oedipal triangulation of Daddy-mommy-me.

One of the most intriguing questions haunting the literary theory in the wake of poststructuralism is that of identity and the definition of subjectivity. Poststructuralist thinkers as various as Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida argued, not so long ago, that the autonomous subject of the humanist tradition, a subject capable of knowing both the world and itself, was a utopian dream of the European Enlightenment. Humanism believed in what is now called the “transcendental subject”, the long standing belief that “individual (the subject) is antecedent to, or transcends, the forces of society, experience and language” (Barry 18). This view of human subjectivity was severely questioned and revised in many different ways in a period that recognized the existence of an unconscious mind, the opacity of language, and the role of discursive practices in the dissemination of social power.

This revision of the idea of subjectivity has had important reverberations for the conception of knowledge generally and the notion of history in particular. If subjectivity is conceived of as something unstable, groundless, fluid and changing rather than stable, transcendental, fixed and constant, then human knowledge can no longer be viewed as something fixed and permanent. Instead of regarding knowledge as an edifice to which positivistic scholarship could continue to contribute so that the scope of its

Bilal A Shah

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Image as Meaning: A Study of the

Select Poems of Vikram Seth

“Image,” one of the most common terms used in criticism significantly contributes to the meaning of the text. The meaning of a particular text differs from one reader to the other depending on the mental pictures evolved by the readers based on their previous experiences. Vikram Seth (1952), one of the contemporary Indian English poets, a novelist, travel writer, children's writer, bio-grapher and memoirist employs different patterns of images in his poems in the collection, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992). This paper attempts to identify the poet as a “bricoleur” who has borrowed from texts of different heritages to illuminate the readers and to study the different patterns of images employed which appeal to the sense perception of the readers. The poems chosen for analysis are, 'The Crocodile and the Monkey,' 'The Louse and the Mosquito' and 'The Hare and the Tortoise' from The Collected Poems (1995).

Derrida, a poststructuralist, borrows from the French Anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss the term “bricolage.” It is not a new device or invention but a discourse of method which affirms that it utilizes those instruments which already exist. In his book, The Savage Mind, Strauss emphasizes the mytho-poetical nature of “bricolage” (17). To the poststructuralists, a text is a system of signs. Text in literary studies refers to the poem, plays and novels. Some of the theories offered by poststructuralists seem to be very difficult to digest and apply to the texts and they make the readers feel “how difficult it is to read a book” (Jackson 15). In the postmodern scenario, text and discourse are used as synonymous. Discourse occupies a larger semantic space than the text. In Derrida's words, “If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur”(202). To Strauss the engineer differs from the bricoleur and “in this sense” says Derrida “the engineer is a myth” (202).

With brilliant audacity Frye, in his Anatomy of Criticism, identifies myth with literature, and asserts myth is a “structural organizing principle of literary form” (341). “Myth” as Frye

L. Judith Sophia

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Debating Multiculturalism: A Study of the Fictional Narratives of

Jhumpa Lahiri and Sudha Murthy

Multiculturalism is a topic that has relevance in the post-modern narratives. When world itself becomes a global village, multiculturalism bridge the borders between different cultures and make cultures permeable to humanity. Multiculturalism enables people across the cultural borders to taste unfamiliar cultures. Many writers have explored the possibilities of presenting different cultures through their narratives. Most noteworthy among the contemporary writers are Jhumpa Lahiri and Padma Shri Sudha Kulkarni Murthy.

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-) the renown contemporary novelist and short story writer presents varied themes through her works. She presents stories on love, death, varied human relationships and thereby creates a fictionalized world full of energy and vitality. Lahiri as a short story teller could be seen as in her best in the collection of stories The Interpreter of Maladies and in the Unaccustomed Earth which had won her an established position in English literary circle which had won her many remarkable awards for her contributions.

Padma Shri Sudha Kulkarni Murthy (1950-) a benevolent social worker born in Shiggaon, Karnataka, is popular through the Infosys Foundation which was jointly developed with her husband Narayan Murthy. She has written a collection of short stories, fiction and non-fictions. Her most popular work is the Dollar Sose (Dollar daughter-in-law), wrote in Kannada and translated to English as Dollar Bahu.

Her other popular works are Mahashweta (in Kannada and English), Wise and Otherwise, Dollar Bahu (English), Paridhi (Kannada) Gently Falls the Bakula, The Magic Drum and other Favorite Stories, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and other Stories, The Old Man And His God and .

Jhumpa Lahiri, the London born writer shows in herself elements of a multicultural upbringing. She was brought up in

Dhishna Pannikot

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In Search of A Balming Climate: A Feminist Reading of

Kamala Das's Select Poems

The postmodern creative environment has paved the way for the need to deconstruct power – oriented roles and this in turn led to rethinking of the socially constructed and “historically conditioned” roles. In the mean time questioning the so-called “accepted norms”, that has been marginalizing 'the other', has become an inevitable creative process. To Linda Hutcheon postmodernism “denaturalized the traditional historical separation of the private and the public – and the personal and the political” (142) In fact binary oppositions that are maintained by the dominant forces stood as stumbling blocks for the sustainable development of humanity. Politicizing personal desires is one of the major tenets of contemporary writings and hence women writers explicitly portray their sufferings and the violence that are exercised on them and their resultant impact.

The literary texts authored by male writers treat women as “mute – objects” in which women are submissive, domesticated creatures who lack the essential 'selves'. Like fundamentalists male writers often declare 'holy mantras' of controlled way of living for women through their images of women. Critics are not exceptions to this mindset as Atwood opines in her book Second Words that a text by a woman writer is criticized in terms of her sex. Further traditional notions, try to annihilate both the text and the author by creating 'an imaginary unneeded link' between the author and the events in the text. It is remarkable to note that the craftsmanship of such criticism attempts to exclude the female writer from the literacy scenario. In contrast to this texts by males are always praised for their perception and presentation. Unlike the female protoganists of women novelists, and poets the male writer takes the role of the representative of the society and advocates rules and regulations for the womenfolk through their personae or characters.

K.S. Anish Kumar

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Changing Trends inTranslation Studies

Translation is an integral part of human life. Verbal communication connects people, non verbal communication plays an equally significant role in cementing and reinforcing inter- personal relationships. It is translation of the said and unsaid that makes it possible to bring people and their cultures together. In fact, translation or transcreation is a very important aspect of comparative literature.

“Translation as a sub-text of the original text is comparatively a modern concept. Maybe it is the later requirement of straight jacketed faithfulness to the original which had a debilitating effect. In Indian tradition it never used to be so as the transference of text from one language into another was more of the nature of adaptation, retelling and redoing which went on over a period of time.” [Gopi Chand Narang, 2005].

Serious practitioners and lovers of translation are exposed to countless theories and counter theories of translation. Unequivocally it is accepted as inspiring, as creative as the original writing in the source language (S.L.). In this context terms like source language(S.L.), source text(S.T.), target language(T.L.) and target text(T.T) assume significance.

Early theories of translation focused attention on literal translation only. Shift in focus generated diverse theories subsequently. It is often said if a translation is beautiful it is not faithful and if it is faithful it cannot be beautiful. One wonders whether male chauvinism influenced such an idea. A close scrutiny of the history of translation and the methodology followed reveals that the emphasis was more on retaining loyalty to the source language(S.L.) and the source text(S.T.). No attention was paid to the target reader(T.R). The translator took delight in exhibiting his extraordinary comprehension and communication skills (linguistically). The aesthetic value of S.L text was given greater

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Immortality through Nature in Temsula Ao's Laburnum for My Head

Padma Shree Temsula Ao, poet and fictionist from Northeast India, in her latest collection of short stories entitled Laburnum for My Head, examines various aspects of human condition in interpersonal relationships. In the title story of the collection, she examines how Lentina's longing to be buried beside a laburnum tree with its buttery yellow blossoms, instead of a headstone, is fulfilled. Her longing to be buried in the lap of nature draws attention to our innate desire to be immortalised through nature.

It is a traditional practice in Christian graveyards, to erect “headstones” known also as memorial stones, gravestones or tombstones, made of granite, marble or other materials. These are erected vertically above the ground to keep the sacred memory of the departed soul. They also symbolize wealth and prominence of a person in society. Such stones are marked with epitaphs in praise of the deceased or quotations from religious texts, such as "requiescant in pace." William Shakespeare's inscription reads:

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,To dig the dust enclosèd here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones (“Headstone.” http://www.answers.com).Such traditional style of cemetery known as monumental

cemetery, are being replaced by lawn cemetery; and in recent times by natural cemetery or eco-cemetery or green cemetery. In the natural cemetery an area is set aside for natural burials among eco-conscious people to become part of the natural environment. This is with the idea of one decaying into nature to be one with her. Hence, in natural cemeteries there is no conventional grave markings such as headstones, instead, a tree or a bush is planted to commemorate the faithful departed. (“Cemetery.” http://en. wikipedia.org).

Plants are used to mark rites of passage both in human and

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What about our own roots?Problematising Education and Philosophy in

R.K. Narayan's The English Teacher

The very concepts of alienation and 'rootlessness', the loss of one's own cultural moorings, can justifiably be claimed to be characteristic, more or less, of any realist fiction writer of a nation that inscribes an experience of colonisation leading to a distinctive cultural marginalisation. In the case of R.K. Narayan, who is essentially a writer of the 'individual', the idea of 'roots' is, interestingly, not confined to the search of his characters only. Instead, it is also seen to form a major part of his writerly self. It is pertinent to note that Narayan once said to Ved Mehta that having roots in family and religion are the essential qualities of being a good writer. Thus the protagonist's search for roots in this novel, far from being an overt manifestation of a nativist attempt at constructing an Indian view of life in a society of bi-cultural hybridity, becomes technically a strategy of resistance, a strategy of postcolonial reverse-narrative.

Narayan's The English Teacher (1945) is the story of Krishnan, the protagonist whose search for his cultural roots takes him along a process of evolution to forge independently a philosophy to assimilate his emotional, intellectual and spiritual ties with his country or society. In fact, the writer's treatment of education and philosophy in this novel actually forms a derivative part of an abiding quest of the protagonist for the truth of his identity in his native cultural roots. In course of the novel, Krishnan, the English teacher of Albert Mission College in Malgudi, where he was once a student, finally resigns his post in favour of an option for teaching in a nursery school of an indigenous model. What is significant is that, such an evolution in him being initiated primarily though by his ingrained antipathy for the system of English Education in colonised India, is necessitated in the ultimate reckoning, by some sort of spiritual enrichment gained after a strenuous meditation and psychic communion with the spirit of his dead wife. Maturity in Krishnan can be traced in terms of his tension between his conventional modes of existence and the ideal sort of a harmonious existence, sensed in his quest for the

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I don't know nothing about teachingstudents who use double negatives:

The Big Grammar Use Questionsfor Teachers

Abstract:

Language is central to literacy and reading/writing skills. The primary focus of this article is on instructional strategies that teachers can use in the classroom when they encounter repeated patterns of grammatical inconsistencies, specifically double negatives and subject verb agreement issues in students' writing that diverge from the norms. Instructional approaches are provided to address the issue of linguistic divergence.

For many teachers it is an endless process of 'correcting mistakes' with no long term sustained effects in students' writing. Common instances in the classroom include recurring syntactic corrections of sentences using double negatives or pronominal subjects, such as, I don't know nothing or Them girls made noise. Use of multiple negation (it ain't no cat), negative inversion (don't nobody know), mismatch of subject-verb agreement (she don't go there), and dropping third-singular /–s/ inflection are common in students' formal writing samples. Majority of these students are proficient language users who can code-switch from formal to informal writing styles if they are explicitly taught the skill in classrooms.

Additionally, with the growing numbers of students who bring linguistically diverse needs in our schools, teachers encounter challenges when it comes to students' written language skills on a daily basis. In addition to linguistic diversity, students differ in other traits such as age, background experiences and knowledge, and level of educational attainment. Teachers face educational issues related to identity, language, and culture

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A Dissect on The Imagery of WomenIn Amitav Ghosh's

“The Glass Palace” and “The Hungry Tide”

Amitav Ghosh is a humanist who through his novels has raised his powerful voice against all kinds of tyranny and oppression. He disapproves of domination of man by man at all levels–political, military and economic. Ghosh is a social anthro-pologist, and therefore it is not surprising that he brings to his writing an exactitude of construction and a clarity of language and style .

Feminism encompasses certain central dilemmas in modern experience. Its internal disagreements are part of its continuing power, which involve people in discussion far beyond the movement itself. Most feministic thought grapples unavoidably with some aspect of the “equality-difference” problem. The question is, do women want to be treated as equal as men or do they see biology as establishing a difference that will always require a strong recognition and that might ultimately define quiet separate possibilities inside 'the humans'. Equality theory tends to de-emphasize the body to place faith in each individual's capacity to develop a self not ultimately circumscribed by a collective law of gender. But difference theory tends to emphasize the body and the unconscious, where the body's psychic meaning develops off.

Amitav Ghosh portrays his women sensitively and in fact they are the leading spirits in his fiction. They are distinct portrayals of a cultural construction. Cultural constructs also helps to juxtapose feminine positions and feministic interpretations can emerge even through absence and negation. He never presents his women as overt radical feminists nor as the stereotypical images of Sita and Savitri. The Glass Palace is an extraordinary achievement, a spectacular work of Amitav Ghosh. The novel is a sincere and sustained effort to present a historical document through a series of characters, time and space, i.e., three interconnected parts of the British Empire : Burma, with its

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An Interview with

SUNIL SHARMA

Sunil Sharma is a trend-setter in new fiction in India and a perceptive bilingual critic. His short stories have already appeared in New Woman (Mumbai), Indian Literature (of Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi), Indian Literary Panorama (Mumbai), Contemporary Vibes (Chandigarh), Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (Medinipur) and Indian Journal of Post-colonial Literatures (Kerala). Besides that, he is a freelance journalist in English. His areas of strength are Marxism, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. His book on the Philosophy of the Novel—A Marxist Critique is already published. Minotaur—dealing with dominant ideologies and socio-political realities of the

th20 century is also recently published from Jaipur (India). The novel has been favourably received and reviewed in India and abroad. Frank Joussen, the noted German poet and scholar, comments, “…if fiction wishes to regain its former importance in today's discourse make sure it is politically poignant and artistically brilliant as this astounding debut novel by Sunil Sharma.” Shaleen Singh, the Editor of Creative Saplings calls Sunil Sharma as “a great story teller with lots of promise.” He is currently the Vice-principal and Head of the Department, English, Model College—an A-grade college affiliated to the University of Mumbai, Mumbai—MIDC, Dombivli (East) in District Thane, state of Maharashtra.

JAYDEEP: How do you want to be introduced to the reading world?

SUNIL: An extremely ordinary guy--- middle-class, suburban and small-town, not much to look at and heavily out-of-shape; a Bellowian character on a curious search for meaning and personal connectivity in an indifferent universe, often feeling terribly lonely in crowds; an odd man out in an increasingly commercialized culture where bonds are disappearing fast, like rupees/dollars in the recessionary economy. He is a guy who is grounded and often kind, with an extraordinary interest in life, and its deeper aesthetic

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SHORT STORIES

THE WOUNDS OF A SISTER

Albert Russo

from his Eur-African novel And there was David-Kanza which will appear in his own French version as Exiles Africains - Et il y eut David-Kanza Ginkgo Editeur, Paris, March 2010

During our stay in Riccione, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, Massimo and his sister Liliana paid us a visit; they were my husband's first cousins. He had the litheness and the nobility of a Gregory Peck, and eyes that pierced through you to the soul, whereas she, a head shorter than him, could have seemed quite pretty if she didn't frown so much. It was only later that I understood why such a woman, still young, bore the wrinkled mask of a lady in her forties.

Unlike their parents, Massimo and Liliana had miraculously escaped from the concentration camp. Upon their return, they found their home in Pisa, luckily, untouched and unoccupied. Massimo had resumed his medical studies at the city's reknown university and became a pediatrician with a reputation of efficiency and of great benevolence, whilst Liliana, a degree in hand, taught junior highschool, taking care, at the same time, of the household. She doted on her brother, like a mother hen. There was between them the tacit understanding that they should never speak of the horrors they had suffered during the war, and especially not of the loss of their beloved parents.

What had brought the young people to the Adriatic coast was not to have, like most holidaymakers, a good time at the sea, but to meet with their cousin. Considering Sandro like a family elder, they needed to hear his opinion on a serious and urgent matter which disturbed them profoundly.

At university, Massimo had met a young girl with whom he had fallen passionately in love. She in turn reciprocated with the same intensity, to the point where they reached the conclusion that, once they had both accomplished their studies, they would marry.

They had known each other for three years, but Massimo had always concealed their relationship to his sister, for Eva, that

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CONTRIBUTORS

?Amrendra K Sharma is an Asst. Professor of Linguistics, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman and has been teaching English Language & Literature for the last 30 years. He specializes in Linguistics and ELT but has published research articles in IWE and American literature. He is connected to two international journals in different editorial capacity.

?Manju Roy is Senior Lecturer in English, C M College Darbhanga- Bihar with a number of research articles in various journals of repute.

?Bilal A. Shah is a Research Scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, WB, INDIA.

?L Judith Sophia is an Assistant professor of English, Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, TN, INDIA. She has several papers published in reputed journals and anthologies.

?Dhishna Pannikot is Lecturer in Department of English, University of Calicut, Kerala, INDIA. She has published several articles in reputed journals.

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?Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Teacher at K. M. Institution Bankura, WB, INDIA. He has published several articles in reputed journals.

?Abha Gupta

KS Anish Kumar a poet-critic and a translator is Assistant Professor at Bharathidasan University College, Perumbalur, TN, INDIA. Apart from having published several articles in reputed journals and anthologies, his recently published book of poems in Tamil has received wide critical acclaim. He is currently editing a critical volume on Commonwealth Literature with Dr Chandra Mouli. T Sai Chandra Mouli, a poet, translator and critic is a former Associate Professor (English), Railway College, Secunderabad, AP, INDIA . He has so far published 6 Vols. of Literary Criticism on Indian Writing in English; 2 more Vols. are in press. Dr Mouli's areas of interest include Indian Writings in English, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Comparative Studies.A J Sebastian Sdb is Associate Professor, Department of English, Nagaland University, Kohima Nagaland and has to his credit several articles in reputed journals.

is an Associate Professor, Darden College of Education (Old Dominion University), Department of Teaching

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?Krishna Singh is Asst. Professor at Govt. PG College, Shahdol, MP. She has published several research paper in journals and anthologies and is pursuing her D. Litt.

?M. Meena Devi is Assistant Professor at

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?PCK Prem (IAS, Retd.)

?Laxmi Sistla is an Assistant Professor of English at Govt. College Visakhapatnam, AP.

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and Learning, 5115 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23529Lecturer in English, Sri Eshwar College of

Engineering, Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore.Devasree Chakravarti is Research Scholar, Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur (C.G.) India.G.A. Ghanshyam is Assistant Professor at Govt. M.L. Shukla College, Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) He has several papers published in International and National Journals and Edited Books. He has edited two books. He is also Editor-in-Chief of online journal “Journal of Teaching English Literature and Research”, Cultural Secretary of The Association for English Studies of India (AESI), Convener of Literature SIG, ELTAI, Executive Member-ELTAI and Co-ordinator of ELTAI, Bilaspur Chapter.

Research Centre in English, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, TN.

Research Centre in English, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, TN. Anju Bala Agrawal is Reader in the Deptt. Of English, R.C.A. Girls' P.G. College, Mathura. She submitted her thesis of D. Litt on “Nature and Man in Wordsworth and Seamus Heaney”. Besides many published articles she has authored “William Wordsworth: A Collection of Critical Essays” and edited “Post Independence Indian Writing in English” in two volumes.Amandeep Rana is Lecturer, P. G. Department of English, JC DAV College Dasuya. Distt. Hoshiarpur, Punjab.

An academician-turned-bureaucrat, a bilingual novelist, short story writer, poet and critic based in Palampur, Kangra, HP.

Associate Professor, Department of English, Dr. L.B. PG College Visakhapatnam, AP

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee (UK) has published several articles in reputed journals and edited several anthologies.Jaydeep Sarangi, Poet-academic, is Head of the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya (Vidyasagar University), W. B. (India) and the author of a number of significant

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?P. Raja an author and freelancer is Associate Professor at Tagore Govt. Arts College, Pondicherry. He has to his credit several collections of short stories, essays and poems.

?Aju Mukhopadhyay is a

publications (including 21 books) on postcolonial issues, Indian Writing in English, Australian Literature and Linguistics and ELT in reputed journals/magazines in India and abroad. He has been awarded with “Sahitya Gaurav 2009”. He edits Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies. Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 65 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in English and in French, his two mother-tongues, is the recipient of many awards, such as The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards and the Prix Colette, among others. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, including German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Bengali and Polish, and broadcast by the World Service of the BBC, publishing on the five continents, in 22 countries. He has also garnered several prizes for his photography books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. He was also a member of the 1996 jury for the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature.

bilingual poet, essayist and fiction writer, Pondicherry.

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