Women's writing in English

FINDING MEANING IN MY FAVOURITE TEXT Margaret Atwood engages readers in her enthralling literary masterpiece entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale”, set against the backdrop of a gloomy dystopic future which explores women subjugation in a male-privileging society. Breaking out of the habit of reading via the ‘Leavis method’, to read and interpret from different perspectives can, in Robert Eaglestone’s perspective, “[..] change your ideas about the text and even about your place in the world”.…

Unity in diversity’ is the motto of our nation. India is a diversified country with many languages with many cultures and the people also different from one state to another. India’s is called as ‘Hindustan’ as it was full of Hindus once upon a time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni employs myth in her novels to show the people how culture, tradition, religion and ecology play an important role in the lives of man. Myths are the stories that are based on tradition, culture and religion. They are not…

years I stayed home, raising my two daughters and babysitting. Raising my girls and babysitting gave me experience with younger children that has served me greatly at the school. For four years before we moved to Idaho, I worked at Target, in the women’s department and fitting room. This experience helped me with organizational skills and having a keen eye on how the floor could look for the customers. At the elementary school, I can make the library look how I want, which includes moving…

Every American high school student will know the story of the Pilgrims: the group of English Puritans hoping to escape religious persecution that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the New World. Most students will have no idea that St. Augustine was actually the first European settlement in the American mainland, and not the good…

medieval treaty of on the life and activities of witches. The book was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger with the first publication done in English. Allegedly, Kramer was the chief author of the work, and Sprenger was the co-author because he had a higher reputation. The work has been regarded to have been written after the writing of a bull by Pope Innocent VIII, which gave people permission to kill witches living in northern Germany. The book is well known because it proved…

Turners’ revolt (also known as the Southampton insurrection) was the most effective rebellion in U.S. history. Spreading fear through the white South. During Tuners’ life on the plantation, Benjamin allowed him to be taught in religion, reading, and writing. Turner was sold three times in his childhood and hired out to John Travis in the early twenties of his life. He became a strong and fiery preacher and leader of Black slaves on Benjamin Turner’s plantation and in his Southampton County…

you all for supporting us during our loss. Thank you, everyone, for being here at short notices and making time to honor our father during your busy schedule. It has been a difficult time for us. Thank you for being beside us throughout it. While writing this biography, it has brought us so much memories of our past with our father and showered us on how important he was part of our everyday life, from the little things that he did to our happiest moments. Each one of us have had special…

throughout the centuries have always defined themselves and their community in their works. It has been more apparent in literature, especially in poetry. Audre Lorde is an African American writer, radical feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist. Writing poetry was a responsibility for her as it was necessary for her survival and the survival of others. This study considers race, gender, multi-ethnicity and cultural politics in the select poems of Audre Lorde to the exclusion of the…

incorporate the whole Chinese culture into her poems. Cathy’s strong eye for detail and imagery in her poems really captures the message that she is trying to portray to the audience. Song has not only won many awards but stands out for unique style of writing,…

This is the condition of many Indian wives who silently swallow the pain, become tough by accepting life as it comes. This paper is an attempt to bring into light the dreadful agony of the protagonists in the novel “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar an Indian American novelists, who mirrors the suffering of a wife in the hands of a dread full husband, who’s marriage was once based on love, ended up with pain, when the true colours of him are exposed. Keywords: Physical Abuse, Domestic…