Editorial

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Gauhati University, Guwahati, India.

The present issue (vol. 4, no. 1) of the transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of five research articles and two book reviews. Sharanya DG’s article on the historiographic metafiction of Don DeLillo’s White Noise undertakes a textual and formal analysis of the novel in order to explore its representation of the inward resistance directed against the dominant discourses within the contemporary American society. The paper on suicide narratives in literature by Rajasmita Singha examines the impact of societal power dynamics on the female individual which often drive them to the point of submission or martyrdom in conformity to the dictates of convention. Anisur Rahman, in his paper on Haruki Murakami’s The Rat Series, reveals the implicit confrontation between the power of everyday and the capitalism-induced coercion, and the former’s endeavour to subvert the latter through certain acts that attest the profundity of the mundane. Livia Tinglianhoi’s article explores the thematic components of the female bildungsroman like the quest for identity, female psyche, and the social–cultural factors behind the representation of the character of Madhabi from the eponymous Meiteilon novel by Lamabam Kamal. Shipra Mondal presents her article on the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain analysed through the Marxist perspectives on women’s emancipation and social progress. Jayashree Haloi undertakes a review of Preetinicha Barman’s poetry collection, My Body Floating with Hyacinths, and reveals the diversity of sensibilities explored by the poet in her attempt to depict the intricacies of the human mind. The second review by Paddaja Roy, on Sightlines: View Points on Susheel Kumar Sharma’s The Door is Half Open edited by Danielle Hanson, briefly outlines the broad gamut of opinions provided by noted academicians on the diverse areas of social and philosophical engagement reflected in the poetic works of Susheel Kumar Sharma.

            Taken together, the five research articles and the two book reviews constitute an insightful corpus of writings with their varied emphases on textual, contextual, and also ideological readings on contemporary fictional and poetic works. The submissions have been reviewed in detail by seasoned academicians whose insights and observations have greatly enriched their value as critical interventions of specific themes, authors, and texts. I take this opportunity to thank all the reviewers for their time and efforts in this regard. The authors too have responded enthusiastically to the reviewers’ comments, and have revised their submissions accordingly in time for the publication of this issue of the journal. A sincere word of thanks for them too! As a guest editor, this is my third issue with the journal, and I would like to record my sincere gratitude towards the members of the editorial board for their consistent support and encouragement. The issue is now open for all readers and for their constructive feedback on the submissions included herein.

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Dr. Dhurjjati Sarma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University, Assam. His writings have been published under Springer Nature, Sahitya Akademi, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan, and in journals like Language and Language Teaching, Indian Literature, English Forum, Indica Today, Rupkatha Journal, Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES), Space and Culture India, and Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture. He is presently working on a critical history of Assamese literature.

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