Otherness

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” (2003) is a cross-cultural, ultigenerational story of a Hindu Bengali family’s journey to self-acceptance in Boston. ‘The Namesake’ explores the theme of transnational identity and trauma of cultural dislocation. The novel is a narrative about the assimilation of an Indian Bengali Family from Calcutta, the Ganguli’s, into America. The cultural dilemmas experience by them and their American born children are quite different. The spatial, cultural and emotional…

Shakespeare’s Timelessness One of the questions most frequently posed, even these days, is: What makes an author, a creator timeless? As much as skill and dedication play an important role in gaining recognition, these are not the only characteristics necessary to determine whether that certain writer has carved his/her name in the rough stone of immortality, whether he will remembered after centuries. For instance, during Shakespeare’s time, there were other playwrights too, extremely talented…

Birdie kicked at a stray rock with all her might, snarling with clenched teeth. It flew across the street, and disappeared into the passing crowd. Birdie sighed and ran a hand through her hair, her stomach folding in on itself. “I want to go home,” she moaned quietly, and Albert nudged her with a grin. “You want to go back to Kansas? Lame, Bernie.” Birdie rolled her eyes at the nickname, but smiled at Albert anyway. They started walking down the street, dragging their shoes across the…

This chapter presents an overall view about feminism movement in general with special reference about Dalit Feminism. The term 'Dalit Feminism deals with special status of a woman who is also marginalised for her caste & gender. With some other writers here we discuss about short stories of Urmila Pawar a Dalit Feminist of India. Concept of Feminism In the mid 1800s the term 'feminism ' was used to refer to 'the qualities of females", and it was not until after the first International Women…

feminism would not be completely inappropriate for this book, as Bradley is certainly attempting feminist themes (Fuog). In Fuog’s essay she states that Bradley “deliberately demystifies female sexuality and thereby deconstructs the notion of female Otherness; she gives her female characters power, not only as individuals, but also through the power structures in which they work” (Fuog). Throughout the novel, there are passages known as “Morgaine Speaks.” The article Overview: The Mists of…

her is unveiled against a background of the instruments of science and technology (signifying Western modernity)” (Naghibi/O’Malley, 231-232). This proves the readers with a specific factors for Marji’s life. Symbolized by the veil is the radical otherness in her life an unveiled as her “modern” self. If looked at carefully, one can see that this split is reflected in a level of form. This image is known to show that “The contrapuntal relationship between east and west shapes the narrative…

"The word Romance of course is derived from Roman ages, having to do with ancient Rome in the Middle Ages, people looked upon Roman Empire as something grounded and glorious, something far surpassing their own course time in its achievements"(wagoner, pg50). When you think about the word romantic it has come to be referred to almost anything Grand and glorious, this Cosmic powerful force of emotions that you feel for that special someone." In contrast to the ordinary constraints of daily life…

Inscribing the Enlightenment: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Community of Readers With Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley intended to titillate and terrify a readership for whom nothing could be more terrifying than science run amok (Villasenor 4). For most of her audience; God, the Church, the Devil, and the Bible held sway over neither their consciences nor their nightmares any longer. Yet the newly secularized societies of Europe had not lost their fear of the dark; they had simply…

creative thinkers. The tendency to see Asian Americans only through the lens of our simplified understanding of Asian culture, tends to separate Asian Americans from the rest of America, contributing to a conception of them as an “other”. This view of otherness may be one reason why studies show that Asians in America experience more peer rejection than other racial-ethnic groups, they are most likely to be left out, and people are less likely to initiate friendship with them. (Zhang,…

Baraka's Dutchman and Parks' Topdog/Underdog, though slightly different in their crafting of conflicts and antagonists, are unified in their portrayal of black anger and its existence. It can be argued that both plays show that white supremacy are at the root of this anger and its inevitable expression. In Dutchman, the catalyst for this anger is blatant bigotry, which is demonstrated by a white character (Lula) projecting her beliefs onto a black character (Clay) and eventually mocking his…