Editorial
PDF Debajyoti Biswas1 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-8171 1Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India. Volume 2 Number 2 of transcript brings to you a collection of four research articles and a book review. The opening article…
This Land, This People (Rajbanshi Poems in translation)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0105-0731 PDF Translated by Pradip Acharya & Jyotirmoy Prodhani, Book Review MRB Publishers, Guwahati, 2021 The spoken tongue of Rajbanshi has existed for centuries used in utterance by the clan…
Dahankal: A Subaltern Speaks Aesthetically
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2903-6387 PDF Abstract This essay explores the theme of the Bengali novel Dahankal and places it in the Dalit literary corpus of Bengal. To do this a historical survey in…
Meitei Umanglaiharaoba and the Order of Nature
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-422X PDF Abstract While the debate between climate change activists and sceptics continues, we sure know that nature has suffered exceedingly at the hands of human beings. It is a complicated issue,…
Invasive Memory and W G Sebald’s The Emigrants
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9000-830X PDF Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to critically investigate the invasive nature of memory in W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants. Sebald chooses four Jews who experienced…
A Behavioural Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7360-8418 PDF Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania Abstract Behavioural research indicates that humans can seldom be rational decision-makers that maximise their profits while minimising their costs at…
On a Country in Captive: A Review on Aruni Kashyap’s There Is No Good Time for Bad News
Book Review Aruni Kashyap’s There Is No Good Time for Bad News. Future Cycle Press, 2021, Pages 58, Price $15.95. https://doi.org/10.53034/Transcript.2021.v01.n02.006 PDF Aruni Kashyap’s poetry is an organic blend of…
Lydia’s silence: Representation of trauma from an ex-centric position in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit
https://doi.org/10.53034/Transcript.2021.v01.n02.005 PDF Abstract South Africa, a place long caught in the crosshairs of hegemonic violence and racism, provides a fitting case study for the imbalance and marginalization of the traumatized…
Writing as Resistance: A Reading of Mohsin Hamid’s Select Novels
https://doi.org/10.53034/Transcript.2021.v01.n02.004 PDF Abstract Mohsin Hamid, one of the powerful voices to emerge from Pakistan engages with themes that go beyond the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and portrays…