dialog : a bi-annual interdisciplinary journal
No. 34: SPRING/AUTUMN 2019 ISSN: 0975-4881
Editor
Deepti Gupta
Editorial Board
Rumina Sethi
Akshaya Kumar
Advisory Board
M.L.Raina
Mina Surjit Singh
Shelley Walia
Rana Nayar
Pushpinder Syal
Manju Jaidka
Lovelina Singh
Pratibha Nagpal
Harpreet Pruthi
Anil Raina
Meenu Gupta
Surbhi Goel
Sudhir Kumar
Editorial Assistants
Sonali Singh
Rashmi Sharma
Cover
Cover credits: Antique illustration of the grammar of ornament by Owen Jones
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Issue No: 34 Spring/Autumn 2019
CONTENTS
Articles
• Historical Trauma: Genocidal Memory in Monénembo’s The Oldest Orphan
-Abhishek Trehan
• Transitivity Analysis of Obama’s Selected Speeches addressed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
-Amanbir Kaur Noori
• Exploring the Horizons of Change: A Study of Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke
-Amit Narula
-Anusha Prasannan
• Gazing at the Obvious: A Critical Analysis of the Male Gaze in Superhero and Fantasy Literature
-Ayushee Arora
• The Status of Women in Islam: A Study of Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy
-Gulam Ali Rahmani
• The Unpopular History of the ‘Black Food’: African-American Food Stereotypes in Popular Media
– Heba Thankam Varghese
-Komil Tyagi
• Imaginings of the Real: The Tropes of Magic Realism in Sidhhartha Gigoo’s The Lion of Kashmir.
Manisha Gangahar
• Sri Guru Granth Sahib and the Spirit of Dialogism
-Navjot Kaur
• Bog Body, Violence and Silence in Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment”
-Navleen Multani
• A Stylistic Analysis of W.H. Auden’s Poem: “The Shield of Achilles”
-Raj Kumar
• Stories of Kartar Singh Duggal: India in a Microcosm
-Saikat Banerjee
• ‘Crisis in Civilisation’: Rabindranath Tagore’s Perspectives on Nation and Nature.
-Samit Kumar Maiti
-Soumyadeep Neogi
• Negotiating History and Literature in Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind.
-Sunaina Jain
• Reclaiming the Public Sphere: The Case of Arundhati Roy’s Non-Fiction Writings.
–Urvi Sharma
-Vipasha Bhardwaj
Book Review
-Aditi Bist
• Crickets deep state (Book Review).
-Raj Thakur
• Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley (Book Review)
-Suraj Gunwant
Notes on Contributors
- Abhishek Trehan is an Assistant Professor of English at D.A.V. College, Chandigarh.
- Aditi Bist is a Research Scholar at the Department of English, Kanya Gurukul Campus, Dehradun.
- Amanbir Kaur Noori is a Research Scholar at the Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
- Amit Narula is an Assistant Professor of English at D.A.V. College, Chandigarh.
- Anusha Prasannan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, D.B. Pampa College, Parumala, Pathanamthitta, Kerala.
- Ayushee Arora is a final year M.A. student at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
- Gulam Ali Rahmani is a Ph.D. research scholar at Department of English, Central University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir.
- Heba Thankam Varghese is a Ph.D scholar at CMS College, Kottayam.
- Komil Tyagi is an Assistant Professor (II) at the Department of English and Research Centre, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh.
- Manisha Gangahar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, GGDSD College, Sector 32-C, Chandigarh.
- Navjot Kaur is an Associate Professor at Department of English, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh.
- Navleen Multani is Assistant Professor of English at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.
- Raj Kumar is a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at the Department of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
- Raj Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Central University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir.
- Saikat Banerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati.
- Samit Kumar Maiti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal.
- Soumyadeep Neogi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Delhi.
- Sunaina Jain is an Assistant Professor (English) at Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh.
- Suraj Gunwant is an Assistant Professor of English at Ewing Christian College, Prayagraj.
- Urvi Sharma is a Research Scholar (PhD) in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
- Vipasha Bhardwaj is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Pub Kamrup College, Guwahati University.
CALL FOR PAPERS
dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, is now open to submissions for its next issue. dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, it invites scholarly papers, interviews, book reviews and poems.
The journal would like to publish critical articles on any of the following aspects or related issues:
- Indian Writings in English and in Translation
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Representations of Gender, Caste and Race
- Cinema/Theatre as Text
- Theories of Culture
- Emerging Forms of Literature
- Popular Culture
- Language, Linguistics and ELT
Important points to remember:
- Word limit for scholarly article is 4000 to 6000 words i.e. a minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 pages.
- The papers must be in 12-point Times New Roman (in accordance with MLA style sheet 8th edition).
- Writers are to submit their papers to editordialog@pu.ac.in before the deadline, i.e. 30th September 2020, along with a 50- word biographical note.
- Submitted piece of work must be original and hitherto unpublished. No simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Other guidelines:
- Photo Essays must have high-resolution pictures along with text as a compressed or zip file as an attachment in e-mail.
- Word limit for Book review and Interview is 1,200 and 4000-4500 words respectively.