For the last decade I have been writing on the subject of pioneering and travelling, as well as the psychological and the spiritual journey of life. I am not unaware of the significance of such writing as an expression of one's philosophy and religion, of one's sociology and ideology, indeed of the very apparatus of one's life. I have written literally hundreds of prose-poems and essays on the themes of travel interwoven with their variegated personal and societal significances.
My prose and poetry is, if nothing else, a definition of my identity, of the way I see my life, see life in general and the complex society in which I live. What follows in this essay is a collection of several pieces, several prose-poems, that I tie together somewhat tenuously for the sake of this exercise, this special posting on the subject of travel. I hope readers find some of the connections I make, often tangentially, on this subject of travel stimulating and provocative.
Social differences in The Arabian Nights:A Reform
There is, in their stories, instruction for men endued with understanding. It is not a tale invented, but a confirmation of what went before it,-a detailed exposition of all things, and a guide and a mercy to any such as believe. Qur’an, XII:111
Two hundred years before the death of Roger White in 1993, Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsai "arose to dedicate the remaining days of his life to the task" of preparing the way, as one of the two critical precursors of the Baha'i Revelation, "for the advent of a new Manifestation." In the next several years of that fin de siecle he began to write a great deal about the metaphorical nature of the prophecies relating to the birth of a new and independent Revelation of God.
There was a strong poetic strain in the Shakyh's writings: symbolism and metaphor abounded. Shaykh Ahmad was very unorthodox and many "professed themselves incapable of comprehending the meaning of his mysterious allusions." This poetic, symbolic, strand has continued through the writings of the two precursors of the Babi Revelation, the Revelation of the two Manifestations of God and the writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, all part of what you might call the poetic tradition in the Baha'i Era.
There has been, too, a series of poets beginning with Tahireh in the 1840s, to Na'im late in the nineteenth and early in the twentieth centuries, to George Townshend up to mid-twentieth century and later Robert Hayden, Roger White, Bahiyyih Nahkjavani, John Hatcher and Michael Fitzgerald, among others, who have made important contributions to the literature and commentary on the Cause in a poetic idiom. In some ways it could be said that the passing of Roger White in 1993 marks and end of two centuries of intense and significant poetic writing in a tradition centred on the appearance of two Manifestations of God in the nineteenth century. It is not the purpose of this book or this chapter to describe this long history, this tradition, of poetic influence, of poetic writing. The experience of poetry begins anew with each generation.
Since the first teaching Plan, 1937-1944, poetry written by Baha'is has slowly become a part of world literature, first through Robert Hayden and second through Roger White, the subject of this study. The poetry of White is seen as continuation and development, as part of "the decisive, the most significant, contemporary life of tradition," as poetry critic F.R. Leavis once described the poetry of the present. White should be seen, too, as part of that rich treasure of human life which is now stored within the pale of a new and emerging world religion. White had much of the culture of this embryonic Force, this Movement, fermenting, crystallizing, in his head and it took him on a voyage over the deep of poetry with its delicacy and tenderness, with its inexhaustible resources, infinitely new and striking.
The Danger of De-Culturation in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya`S Possessioniosrjce
This research article is an effort to examine the Danger of De -Culturation in the novels of Kamala
Markandaya`s’’ Possession ‘’.The novel Possession deals with the theme of loneliness and alienation which
comes out after East-West confrontation. In this story, the protagonist Valmiki, the great oriental artist whose
art stifles in an alien culture. He feels himself suffocated in an alien environment. Though he gains recognition,
but he loses his spontaneity. A rich English woman lady Caroline Bell discovers the talent of painting in the
South
Indian boy, Valmiki. She takes him to England polish him as an image of the great Indian artist. As a matter of
fact, Valmiki becomes a popular artist and enjoyed name, fame and glamour of the Western culture. But at the
same time, he feels that he destroyed his soul. He feels culturally estranged in an alien land At the end of the
novel he has to break with Lady Caroline Bell an come back to India. This article is concerned to make an
intensive study of the Danger of De culturation in the life of estranged protagonist Valmiki who positions
himself in the search of identity.
Is the epic as a form of literature dead in modern era?Ardhendu De
Have the serious epics lost popular appeal among modern readers and that their interest today has been narrowed to the limited sphere of the academia?
Written and presented by
Ardhendu De
www.ardhendude.blogspot.com
For the last decade I have been writing on the subject of pioneering and travelling, as well as the psychological and the spiritual journey of life. I am not unaware of the significance of such writing as an expression of one's philosophy and religion, of one's sociology and ideology, indeed of the very apparatus of one's life. I have written literally hundreds of prose-poems and essays on the themes of travel interwoven with their variegated personal and societal significances.
My prose and poetry is, if nothing else, a definition of my identity, of the way I see my life, see life in general and the complex society in which I live. What follows in this essay is a collection of several pieces, several prose-poems, that I tie together somewhat tenuously for the sake of this exercise, this special posting on the subject of travel. I hope readers find some of the connections I make, often tangentially, on this subject of travel stimulating and provocative.
Social differences in The Arabian Nights:A Reform
There is, in their stories, instruction for men endued with understanding. It is not a tale invented, but a confirmation of what went before it,-a detailed exposition of all things, and a guide and a mercy to any such as believe. Qur’an, XII:111
Two hundred years before the death of Roger White in 1993, Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsai "arose to dedicate the remaining days of his life to the task" of preparing the way, as one of the two critical precursors of the Baha'i Revelation, "for the advent of a new Manifestation." In the next several years of that fin de siecle he began to write a great deal about the metaphorical nature of the prophecies relating to the birth of a new and independent Revelation of God.
There was a strong poetic strain in the Shakyh's writings: symbolism and metaphor abounded. Shaykh Ahmad was very unorthodox and many "professed themselves incapable of comprehending the meaning of his mysterious allusions." This poetic, symbolic, strand has continued through the writings of the two precursors of the Babi Revelation, the Revelation of the two Manifestations of God and the writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, all part of what you might call the poetic tradition in the Baha'i Era.
There has been, too, a series of poets beginning with Tahireh in the 1840s, to Na'im late in the nineteenth and early in the twentieth centuries, to George Townshend up to mid-twentieth century and later Robert Hayden, Roger White, Bahiyyih Nahkjavani, John Hatcher and Michael Fitzgerald, among others, who have made important contributions to the literature and commentary on the Cause in a poetic idiom. In some ways it could be said that the passing of Roger White in 1993 marks and end of two centuries of intense and significant poetic writing in a tradition centred on the appearance of two Manifestations of God in the nineteenth century. It is not the purpose of this book or this chapter to describe this long history, this tradition, of poetic influence, of poetic writing. The experience of poetry begins anew with each generation.
Since the first teaching Plan, 1937-1944, poetry written by Baha'is has slowly become a part of world literature, first through Robert Hayden and second through Roger White, the subject of this study. The poetry of White is seen as continuation and development, as part of "the decisive, the most significant, contemporary life of tradition," as poetry critic F.R. Leavis once described the poetry of the present. White should be seen, too, as part of that rich treasure of human life which is now stored within the pale of a new and emerging world religion. White had much of the culture of this embryonic Force, this Movement, fermenting, crystallizing, in his head and it took him on a voyage over the deep of poetry with its delicacy and tenderness, with its inexhaustible resources, infinitely new and striking.
The Danger of De-Culturation in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya`S Possessioniosrjce
This research article is an effort to examine the Danger of De -Culturation in the novels of Kamala
Markandaya`s’’ Possession ‘’.The novel Possession deals with the theme of loneliness and alienation which
comes out after East-West confrontation. In this story, the protagonist Valmiki, the great oriental artist whose
art stifles in an alien culture. He feels himself suffocated in an alien environment. Though he gains recognition,
but he loses his spontaneity. A rich English woman lady Caroline Bell discovers the talent of painting in the
South
Indian boy, Valmiki. She takes him to England polish him as an image of the great Indian artist. As a matter of
fact, Valmiki becomes a popular artist and enjoyed name, fame and glamour of the Western culture. But at the
same time, he feels that he destroyed his soul. He feels culturally estranged in an alien land At the end of the
novel he has to break with Lady Caroline Bell an come back to India. This article is concerned to make an
intensive study of the Danger of De culturation in the life of estranged protagonist Valmiki who positions
himself in the search of identity.
Is the epic as a form of literature dead in modern era?Ardhendu De
Have the serious epics lost popular appeal among modern readers and that their interest today has been narrowed to the limited sphere of the academia?
Written and presented by
Ardhendu De
www.ardhendude.blogspot.com
Diasporic expression of salman rushdie ( post.colo)Niyati Pathak
This presentation is a part of my academic activity i...
I'm dying my masters in English literature in India ..
Where I have post colonial literature paper were i presented what is the how salman Rushdie define diaspora in his works .... and it's some of the information........so have a look at the slides ... Presentation and evaluate .. give me comments and marks so that I can improve more
For evaluation click the link ...
http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/10/rubric-for-evaluation-of-oral.html
.Thanks for visiting
From a Maqama Writing in Arabic Literature to a Picaresque Writing in Spanish...inventionjournals
According to Marxist criticism, each phenomenon made during history is affected by the society`s material and historical conditions remembered as the infrastructure and the superstructure. From a Marxist perspective, literature is also a kind of superstructure that can both step into the present ideologies` survival or criticize them. Maqamat of Al-Hamadhani and Al-Hariri and Picaresque of Lazarillo are among the critical literatures of their own era. Abbasid like Monarchy of Spain and the Church of that era showed both mastery over the society and the unfair scattering of wealth as their natural right by applying the ideology of religion and converting their jobs to goods. In this way, they created the classified gap and spread poverty among common people. Therefore, the despotic governments were not only considered as the prominent factor both in the formation and similarity of the tales` content themes of Maqamat and Picaresque, but also caused a critical look to be provided at special classes and particular ideologies of these tales. Such governments used the ideologies like religion and its related schools of thought, morality based on the satisfaction of society`s ruling class needs reflecting the social nature, converting to goods, and promotion of believing in the classification in order to strengthen the foundations of their government
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Diasporic expression of salman rushdie ( post.colo)Niyati Pathak
This presentation is a part of my academic activity i...
I'm dying my masters in English literature in India ..
Where I have post colonial literature paper were i presented what is the how salman Rushdie define diaspora in his works .... and it's some of the information........so have a look at the slides ... Presentation and evaluate .. give me comments and marks so that I can improve more
For evaluation click the link ...
http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/10/rubric-for-evaluation-of-oral.html
.Thanks for visiting
From a Maqama Writing in Arabic Literature to a Picaresque Writing in Spanish...inventionjournals
According to Marxist criticism, each phenomenon made during history is affected by the society`s material and historical conditions remembered as the infrastructure and the superstructure. From a Marxist perspective, literature is also a kind of superstructure that can both step into the present ideologies` survival or criticize them. Maqamat of Al-Hamadhani and Al-Hariri and Picaresque of Lazarillo are among the critical literatures of their own era. Abbasid like Monarchy of Spain and the Church of that era showed both mastery over the society and the unfair scattering of wealth as their natural right by applying the ideology of religion and converting their jobs to goods. In this way, they created the classified gap and spread poverty among common people. Therefore, the despotic governments were not only considered as the prominent factor both in the formation and similarity of the tales` content themes of Maqamat and Picaresque, but also caused a critical look to be provided at special classes and particular ideologies of these tales. Such governments used the ideologies like religion and its related schools of thought, morality based on the satisfaction of society`s ruling class needs reflecting the social nature, converting to goods, and promotion of believing in the classification in order to strengthen the foundations of their government
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
India, the ancient land known as the torchbearer of peace, spirituality and humanism became
testimony to one of the ghastliest and flabbergasting acts ever committed in the history of
mankind. Her own offspring who had lived as a single unit were suddenly bifurcated on
communal lines due to political vendetta. Many authors have incorporated the trauma and
sufferings during the partition. Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa are distinguished
signatures in the arena of English literature who have published novels based on the theme of
partition. They have portrayed the traumatic picture of that time making us to feel the pain of
humanity. Thus the present paper focuses upon the literature of partition with special
reference to the trauma in the writings of Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa.
India drank the sweet nectar of freedom from the foreign yoke of British Raj but with a heavy
price. The ancient land whose civilisation had stood against the test of time was bifurcated
into two parts- India and Pakistan. The biggest exodus of people ever in the history of
humankind took place from one part to another. A state of religious frenzy and bigotry spread
in the entire Indian subcontinent. People became worse than beasts ever ready to slaughter
fellow beings in the name of religion. The single most affected victim was humanity which
was torn into pieces by its own children. All hell broke loose when people in both nations
were killed just due to their religious affiliations. A plethora of literature is produced on this
subject particularly from the authors of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The trauma and
agony experienced by people has found its voice in the literature of partition by many notable
and distinguished authors. Poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz lamented, „This stain covered daybreak,
this night bitten dawn. This dawn is not that dawn we craved for‘. Muslims migrated to
Pakistan and Hindus to India leaving back their ancestral homes, tradition and culture to
become refugees in a distant land just in the name of fanaticism. Bigotry spew its venom
particularly on women who were assaulted, sexually abused and tortured if they were found
to be of different religion.
The tragedy of partition has given way to literature in almost all languages of the Indian sub-
continent particularly Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali and other vernacular languages. A
common element in all these pieces of literature is pathos. It is different from historical
account as it embodies the human suffering and pain due to partition. Authors such as
Krishna Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Amrita Pritam, Saddat Hasan Manto, K.S. Duggal,
Nanak Singh and others have revolved their prose on the subject of partition. Khushwant
Singh‟s ‗ Train to Pakistan „, Bapsi Sidhwa‟s ‗Ice Candy Man‘ and ‗Bride‘, Salman
Rushdie‟s ‗Midnight‘s Children‘, K.A. Abbas‟ ‗Inquilab‘ in English, Bhishma Sahani‟s
„Tamas‘ and Yashpal‟s „Jhoota Sach‘ in Hindi.
Almost everyone is doing well..
Running Head: THEORETICAL PAPER 1
Postcolonial Theory
By
Chelsea McCray
English 2310
Mrs. Marguerite Newcomb
University of the Incarnate Word
12 July 2019
Running Head: THEORETICAL PAPER 2
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a standout amongst the most well-known epic stories from
antiquated occasions. Benjamin Foster is correct that the Gilgamesh Epic "offers a magnificence
of language, symbolism, subjects, and thoughts to the cutting edge reader." This epic story has
been converted into various present-day dialects, and just as into an animation film, a kids'
storybook, etc. Many academic books, articles, and expositions have been committed to explore,
look at, and decipher its meaning. This stated, this paper is composed to analyze especially the
connection between two primary characters of the account, in particular, Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
A concise review of grant concerning these two characters will be investigated in the initial
segment of the paper to find this task in a bigger setting of grant. I will further propose a
perusing procedure from a postcolonial abstract hypothesis. I will likely observe the likelihood of
utilizing the "edifying mission" idea to comprehend the power connection between Gilgamesh
and Enkidu. The point of this paper is to demonstrate that Gilgamesh, who has to prevail with
regards to 'cultivating' and oppressing Enkidu under his impact, turns out incidentally to be weak
without this 'acculturated mammoth,' Enkidu. This incongruity of Gilgamesh mirrors the
incongruity of the frontier realm that is completely subject to their province
(historyonthenet.com, 2019). [Try not to end paragraphs in someone else’s words. Follow source
material with your own words explaining how the source material is connected to your thesis.
This builds your credibility as it reminds the reader who is in charge here.]
In writing, the postcolonial hypothesis helps in depicting the key highlights that
inundated the general public and its kin during the frontier time frame. These highlights decide
how the general population existed together or how occasions occurred. For this situation, three
focal points will be picked to help light up the comprehension of three writing works. These
Commented [MN1]: Be sure to put the story titles in italics so
they stand out from the rest of the text.
Commented [MN2]: Who is he? His name is not listed on the
Reference page.
Commented [MN3]: What account?
Running Head: THEORETICAL PAPER 3
books incorporate; 'Heart of Darkness,' 'The Tempest,' and 'The Epic of Gilgamesh.' Identity,
concealment, and persecution are among the major postcolonial focal points that c.
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Book Review: Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan
1. REVIEWS
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At times Derby’s constructivist approach suggests that citizenship under
Trujillo was largely an experience of being governed by a ‘shadow state’ or
‘shadow bureaucracy’ run by manipulative citizens in ‘costume’ or ‘white
masks’ performing the ‘spectacle’ of the tı´guere or ‘Creole masquerade’ (65).
If the dominating culture of fear, with its incessant public displays of state
power, underscored the theatrical nature of life, what Trujillo was covering
up remains largely unexplored. In this regard, Derby slightly fetishizes the
hidden and occult character of the Trujillato, when she might have attended
more to the material conditions permitting its narrative of mystery.
Yet the sheer breadth and variety of her source materials produce a
fascinating and nuanced portrait of the Dominican Republic in the middle of
the twentieth century. If Derby fails at times to explore all the other ways
Trujillo’s power was maintained Á through violence, for instance Á it is only
as a result of the book’s magnanimity: attempting to cover such extensive
historical and cultural ground, Derby must paint certain aspects of this
period of Dominican history with brush strokes that occasionally over-
simplify the exhaustive subjects of her portrait.
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GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY oF NEW YORK, USA
# Lily Saint
Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan. By
Nyla Ali Khan. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2009. Pp. 185. ISBN
9788189487577 Rs. 395 (pbk).
In this book, Nyla Ali Khan struggles with her responsibility as both
academic and activist to the gendered, political and troubled imagined
community to which she belongs: Kashmir. This struggle plays out in a
contradiction that is inherent within the text, where nostalgic and political
argument compete against Khan’s stated goal to ‘explore the construction
and employment of the Kashmiri political and cultural landscape, and
gender, in secular nationalist, religious nationalist and ethno-nationalist
discourses in J&K [Jammu and Kashmir]’ (12). On one hand, this book
attempts to contest dominant Indian and Pakistani national narratives of
possession over the former princely state that, as Khan explains, have
consistently been used to pursue narrow, homogenizing state-interest at the
expense of local Kashmiri desires for autonomy and self-definition. Toward
this end, Khan speaks back to the construction of a political and social
Kashmiri landscape inundated by Islamic and Hindu patriarchy and
conflated religious, secular and ethnonationalisms that victimize, subjugate
and circumscribe women’s agency (12Á13). Islam, Women and Violence in
Kashmir weaves together a multi-faceted assessment of those nationalisms,
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suggesting a complex genesis of J&K’s troubled state of affairs, the role of
‘outsiders’ in its production, and the benefit that could be garnered from the
reinvigoration of a plural Kashmiri national ethos, or ‘Kashmiriyat’. Yet this
fabric of argument frays as the reader is forced to consider the author’s
personal investment, as her uncritical approach towards narrating her
family’s central location in twentieth-century Kashmiri history eclipses the
declared focus of her book as well as her stated scholarly aims.
Khan’s main argument illustrates how Kashmir has been turned into a
crucible for the forging of Indian and Pakistani national creation myths,
razing what she describes as its unique syncretic social character to the
detriment of local identity formation and, in particular, women’s agency.
Her first chapter narrates the diverse and competitive political milieu
surrounding the end of Maharaja Hari Singh’s control, the environment in
which her grandfather, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, rose to state-wide
prominence eventually to become the political force behind local efforts to
ensure self-determination, in part via a UN-mandated plebiscite. The second
chapter introduces the fourteenth-century Pandit/Sufi yogini-poetess Lalla-
Ded as an early symbol of embraced cultural hybridity; a reflection of her
preeminent theme, Khan frames this figure as a historicalÁliterary symbol of
‘Kashmiriyat’. Chapters three and four delve into the roles of India and
Pakistan in what Khan describes as a political and social evisceration and
militarization of Jammu and Kashmir; here, she traces a history of Janus-
faced anti-democratic Indian involvement and Pakistani military and
political machinations that both inspired and nurtured extra-state J&K
paramilitary growth. The fifth chapter draws on Khan’s first-hand research
in villages bordering the Line of Control, interrogating the status of gender
violence as a direct outcome of war-induced social destabilization and
related patriarchal entrenchment. The conclusion offers an analysis of past
suggestions for resolution, ending with a reflection venturing that Kashmiri
stability will only be achieved when power emanates from local origins
rather than the halls of New Delhi, or solely in relation to subcontinental
politics (147Á8).
Khan begins in belles-lettres fashion, signalling a nostalgic, romantic and
intimate relationship with her subject, reflecting on both its misfortune and
its intersection with the sublime. Effectively noting Kashmir’s tragic beautyÁ
pain duality, Khan writes: ‘The lush meadows carpeted with daisies and
lupines now reek of death and destruction. The soothing fragrance of pine-
covered hills has now been overwhelmed by the odour of false promises and
false hope’ (10). The introduction walks the reader through early Kashmiri
history, historically locating the region’s political fortunes from Mauryan
(early Hindu and Buddhist) rule, through Muslim and Sikh conquest and
Dogra rule to the beginnings of a pre-independence nationalist movement in
the princely state of Maharaja Hari Singh. Khan weaves the stakes of her
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the ways in which touristic representations gave an exportable visual form to
the Caribbean for European consumers. Together with chapter 2, this
chapter only prolongs a good, much-needed book, and takes away from the
intellectual contribution of the other chapters. Chapter 9, ‘Taking Posses-
sion: Symbols of Empire and Nation’, is the last thematic chapter, and in it
the author examines how Caribbean societies have used the symbolic
meaning found in patriotic paraphernalia (coats of arms, flags, political
figures, statues) to their advantage in order to form anticolonial narratives of
the nation.
Imaging the Caribbean has strong points, many of which will not pass
unnoticed even by the most experienced scholar of Caribbean visual culture.
However, the aforementioned shortcomings and the continuous use of
European artworks (like Magritte’s The Key of Dreams and Holbein’s The
Ambassadors) to prove larger points about visuality ultimately make it a
book for undergraduate courses but not one that must be sought out by
graduate students or specialists in Caribbean and postcolonial studies.
MARCELA C. GUERRERO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, USA
# Marcela C. Guerrero