Nothingness, loss, suffering and the fear of memories Ernest Hemingway's readers frequently encounter the ubiquitous presence of nothingness which is “a state where nothing is present, or where nothing exists that is important or gives meaning to life” (Learners 2013: 1047). The First World War was a cause of confusion and loss not only in the social sphere but also in personal relationships. Hemingway's characters question their existence and are haunted by the constant threat of that meaningless
The research paper titled “ Magda as Narrator: Counter/Demythologization in J.M Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country” tries to enquire into the ways in which J.M Coetzee has tried to present Magda, the woman narrator of his text In the Heart of the Country as a counter/de mythologizing figure. She communicates a counter mythical stance serving as a fused signifier for the African pastoral mythology on the one side and the dominant myth of colonialism. She is as much part of the dominant Afrikaner
Indianness in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s ‘MISTRESS OF SPICES’ A.Phaniraja Kumar Introduction: Of all the genus of Indian English literature, fiction is the most developed and well received one in the Post-Modern period both at home and abroad. With the Arundhati Ro’s Booker Prize Award winning novel, “The God of Small Things” (1999), Indian English novel has won international recognition. In the Post-Colonial era, the socio-economic scenario across the globe is fast changing. Globalization has
and television. He is also renowned because he became one of the founding fathers of the Caribbean literacy renaissance of the 1950s. As a postcolonial writer, Selvon seeks to illustrate the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Homi K Bhabha, a contemporary postcolonial critic, employs some postcolonial notions like ‘hybridity,’ ‘unhomeliness,’ ‘creolization,’ ‘mimicry,’ and ‘ambivalence’ to depicts this relationship between the colonizer and colonized. In this research paper, an attempt
ABSTRACT This Research paper is about multiculturalism which in ordinary parlance refers to the state of co-existence of diverse culture, where culture includes racial, religious or cultural groups. It manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions, and values, patterns of thinking and commitment of revaluing disrespecting identities and changing dominant patterns of representation and communication that marginalize certain groups (Young 1990, Taylor: 1992, Gutman: 2003). So its consequence
In The Shadow lines (1988) Amitav Ghosh debates the idea of Indian national identity and the whimsicality of national boundaries in the language of the colonizer with the help of literature, a tool, which was used to repress the natives and simultaneously to “rationalize” them under the British rule. Stuart Hall in the essay “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” talks about how cultural identities far from being eternally fixed in some essentialized past, are subject to the continuous play of history
Role of local self governments in promoting social harmony What is Social Harmony? Social harmony comprises of two very broadly defined terms, social i.e. in relation to a group of individuals living together in a society, and harmony i.e. peaceful interaction and coexistence, coming together of various parts to form an interconnected whole. In this sense, an all encompassing, though very loose, definition of social harmony would be a state where everyone in the society gets along irrespective of
Consequentialists are a group of philosophers who asses whether an act is right or wrong based on the consequences of the action. There are different types of consequentialism including: ethical egoism, act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. These three branches of consequentialism will be discussed later in this paper. A supererogatory act is something that is good but is not obligatory; these acts involve rendering aid to others that go above moral requirement. Consequentialists claim that
Music has always been a part of my life. In definition, it is “vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.” Ever since I was a young child, I have loved music. The strong, steady beats, the entrancing melodies, and the lyrics that vary between heartwarming and heart-wrenching have always had an unexplainable effect on my life. Music seems to have the ability to change certain aspects of my world. Even with my moods, whether
It has become a common knowledge that the colonial discourse occurs on many levels . Some of these levels might be formal (government bureaucrats), others might be literary or social (travel writers and Western journalists). However, regardless of where this discourse may occur, it is darted for the purpose of the denigration and the demonization of the “Other” to a large extent. This process of besmirching the other serves the goal of legitimizing colonialism. In an attempt to make the wiles of
there are types of appropriation and some of them can be intangible like music. Music is one of the example that can be labelled as “Content appropriation”. For example a musician sang a song from another culture can be content appropriation (Young, O, J, 2008). It is an idea of using someone’s cultural element like clothing, accessory ,tone, music or words from their language, without the permission of the people from that culture (Scafidi, 2005). There are various traditional music have adopted into
Yujie WANG M1—LCAI Culture Studies: Asia Pacific Region Instructor: C.Tournu 15 March 2016 The popularity of South Korean Culture In Eastern Asia In 1990s, an increasing number of Korean popular cultural contents, including television soap operas, movies, pop music, and the celebrities who made by the Korean industrialised entertainment companies, has gained immense popularity in Eastern Asian region. In 1999, medias have recognised the rise of Korean popular culture in Asia by rendering it as
The whole world knows that African-American society has faced many crises over the past few decades, including the slave trade, racial discrimination, injustice, and hunger. In fact, all these events led to the loss of black identity. Here in the novel "Native Son" will try to highlight the main character "Bigger" in the novel and how the environment affected him. Bigger is considered a tragic figure, as he represents the African American experience of oppression in America. Richard demonstrates
Analyze Claudette’s development in relation to the five stages of Lycanthropic Culture Shock. In ”St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Russell Wolves”, Russell writes a short story regarding a group of girls, whose parents are werewolves. Their parents sent them to St. Lucy’s Home for Girls to be reformed into civilized humans and become functional members of society. The main character, Claudette, is developed by comparing her behavior in each stage The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic
t Lucy’s Home for Girls is a safe haven for werewolf girls to learn how to change into better humans through a curriculum taught by the home’s nuns. Claudette, a student at St Lucy's Home For Girls, follows the nun’s curriculum closely, but sometimes she strays from it. This short story written by Karen Russell follows three werewolf girls as they learn about and adapt to their new way of living as humans, all of them heading in separate directions. In the beginning of Claudette’s journey, everything
Actor Karthi's Kaashmora has created a lot of intrests among the cine goers. And going by the trailer and after learning bits and pieces of its story, it is a fair guess to say, the film packs all the elements to be this year's one of the blockbusters of the south. The black fantasy is directed by relatively newcomer Gokul, who had previously received appreciation for the presentation of his films. Besides Karthi, the film stars Nayanthara and Sri Divay in the lead roles. It is clear that the
Even though South Korea country neighbour, Japan has its own music J-pop, but K-pop seems to overshadow the popularity of pop music culture in Asia. One of the reasons why it could have succeeded in the music industry was because K-pop mix music culture has acquired various consumer’s sentiment which closely relate to
The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) is undoubtedly one of the most notorious and successful tales ever told. The trilogy has grossed around three billion US dollars and been nominated for more than 800 film awards winning 425 of them, 17 of which were Academy Awards (Wagner 2007). This astronomical level of success has made Lord of the Rings a pop culture staple. The following will discuss the trilogy through the premises of the three main theories of popular culture; popularity, modes of production and
“I think there’s a time in your life where you feel like you don’t fit in. I think everybody has that when you’re a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in” - Matthew Vaughn. In his 1954 Bildungsroman Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores the sense of belonging in an adolescent society through the character of Piggy. Using the genre of a Bildungsroman, Golding evolves Piggy’s character over the course of the novel to outline the moral and psychological growth of Piggy’s
Sixteen year old Holden Caulfield is the narrator and the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden constantly encounters people who strike him as “phony,” a word he applies to anything that is unauthentic or otherwise fake. Throughout this Holden reveals to us that he hates phonies, while still calling himself a “terrific liar”. Throughout the book Holden constantly expresses his hatred for “phonies.” Holden labels anyone who isn’t genuine a phony. This trend of dishonesty