dialog 35 (Spring 2020)

 

dialog: A Bi-annual interdisciplinary journal

  No. 35 (Spring 2020)

  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

Rashmi Sharma

Cover

Cover credits: Landscape by Renoir

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Website: http://dialog.puchd.ac.in

 

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CONTENTS

Articles

 

1. Indian Middle Class: Through the Lens of Habib Faisal
  • Afifa Baig & Garima Srivastava
2. Cross Cultural Language Issues in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
  • Ankita Choudhary
 
3. Corruption and ‘Crooked Practices’: Representation of Social Realism of Post-Independence India in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice
  • Arun Kumar Biswas
4. Decoding the Language of Religious Discourse: A Linguistic and Communication Analysis of Swami Vivekananda’s ‘Chicago Address’ at World’s Parliament of Religions.
  • Bhavneet Bhatti
 
5. From Zenana to Murdana: A Study of Misconstruction, Deconstruction and Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in B.R.S Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”
  • Chandana Rajbanshi
 
6. Fictional Gateways to the History of Pakistan: Studying History-Fiction Interface in Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Geometry of God
  • Dinesh Kumar
 
7. Overcoming challenges in using English in Higher Education: The Case of JNU
  • Garima Dalal

 

  • Gulam Ali Rahmani
 
9. Ryan Through the Looking Glass: Psycho-realism and the Animated Documentary
  • Gurleen Kaur
 
10. Women writers writing on ‘Peace’: A Northeastern experience
  • Jayanta Madhab
 
11. Ecological Apocalypse and Gyno Rebellion in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
  • Jasmine Sharma & Rano Ringo
 
12. ‘Of Unmixable Mix’ – Ammu’s Illness and Sickening Culture in God of Small Things in God of Small Things
  • Navdeep Kaur & Nikhilesh Yadav
 
13. Pandava-Lila as a folk performance in Garhwal: A study of Mahabharata traditions in Uttarakhand (India).
  • Priyatosh Sharma and Ashish Rawat
 
14. The Dance of the Death and the COVID-19 World Crisis: A Study of Albert Camus’ The Plague.
  • Rakesh Kumar
  15. Keeping Sexism Alive through Social Acceptability of Sexist and Derogatory Slurs across Contexts
  • Rashmi Rekha Borah, Moon Moon Hussain& G. Bhuvaneswari

 

16. Indo-American Transactions: Emersonian and Whitmanesque Engagement with Indian Thought
  • Roshan Lal Sharma
 
17. “A mem in the greenrooms of Colonial Lahore”: An Evaluation of Norah Richards’ Contribution to Modern Punjabi Theatre
  • Sakoon N. Singh
 
18. A Philosopher Walks to Think: Reading Henry David Thoreau’s “Walking”
  • Satvir Singh
 
19. Deconstructing Disability
  • Smrity Jayra
 
20. The Domestic is Political and the Political is Gendered: A Revisionist Analysis of Gender and Modernity in Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali
  • Soumi Mukherjee
 
21. Mapping “Spaces of Rejuvenation” through Cognitive Mapping in Shantaram
  • Tripti Soni

 

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

 
  • Afifa Baig is a Ph.D scholar at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, IIS University, Jaipur.
  • Garima Srivastava is former Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at IIS, Jaipur.
  • Ankita Choudhary is a Ph.D scholar at Department of English, IIS (deemed to be University),Jaipur
  • Arun Kumar Biswas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Nabadwip Vidyasagar College, West Bengal.
  • Bhavneet Bhatti is an Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies has been teaching at Panjab University, Chandigarh.
  • Chandana Rajbanshi is a Research Scholar in the Department of English at Raiganj University, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India.
  • Dinesh Kumar is a research scholar (JRF) at the department of English and Cultural Studies Panjab University, Chandigarh.
  • Garima Dalal is an Assistant Professor at Linguistic Empowerment Cell, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Gulam Rehmani is a research scholar at Department of English, Central University of Jammu.
  • Gurleen Kaur is a senior research fellow at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
  • Jayanta Madhab teaches English Literature in Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon,Assam.
  • Jasmine Sharma is a research scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,Ropar.
  • Rano Ringo is a faculty of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,Ropar, Rupnagar.
  • Navdeep Kaur is an Assistant Professor of English at G.S.S.D.G.S. Khalsa College, Patiala Punjab.
  • Nikhilesh Yadav is a Professor at Department of English, Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Haryana.
  • Rakesh Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Bhaderwah Campus, University of Jammu.
  • Rashmi Rekha Borah is an Assistant Professor in Division of English and Foreign Languages at VIT, Chennai.
  • Moon Moon Hussain is an Assistant Professor at BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.
  • Bhuvaneshwari is a senior Assistant Professor at School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT, Chennai.
  • Roshan Lal Sharma is a professor at Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala.
  • Sakoon N. Singh teaches Literature and Cultural Studies at Chandigarh.
  • Satvir Singh is an Assistant Professor in English at Army Cadet College, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
  • Smrity Jayara is an M.Phil Research Scholar at the Department of English, University of Delhi.
  • Soumi Mukherjee is a research scholar in English from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal.
  • Tripti Soni is a research scholar at Department of English, MGS University, Bikaner, Rajasthan.

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:
  1. Word limit for scholarly article is 4000 to 6000 words i.e. a minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 pages.
  2. The papers must be in 12-point Times New Roman (in accordance with MLA style sheet 8th edition).
  3. Writers are to submit their papers to editordialog@pu.ac.in before the deadline,i.e, 30th March 2020 along with a 50- word biographical note.
  4. Submitted piece of work must be original and hitherto unpublished. No simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Other guidelines:
  1. Photo Essays must have high-resolution pictures along with text as a compressed or zip file as an attachment in e-mail.
  2. Word limit for Book review and Interview is 1,200 and 4000-4500 words respectively.
Website: http://dialog.puchd.ac.in