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Exploration of Guilt and Psychological Issues in Lisa Scottoline’s Someone Knows Berdhisha P PhD Research Scholar, Department of English, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641014 E.mail: 22phenf004@avinuty.ac.in ORCiD:0009-0009-3715-682X Abstract Psychology is the study of the human mind and behaviour that are affected by incidents that occur in an individual’s life. In the contemporary world, analysing the human mind is a vivid source for understanding the self. Literature and psychology have a close connection as the fictional or real characters mentioned in the text have a great part. Lisa Scottoline, an American author and attorney famous for her legal thrillers. Her fiction, Someone Knows (2020) deals with the life of protagonist Allie Garvey and the psychological issues she faced due to guilt, may a person escape from the hands of law but not from their inner conscience. The present article deals with Allie Garvey and Juli...
Mind as Motive and Emotive: Cultural Anthropological Clues in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe Ms. P. Ishwariya Research Scholar, Research Department of English, Sri S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College,Sattur, Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Email: ishwariyasasi@gmail.com ORCiD: 0000-0002-4506-9939 Abstract Anthropology was a broad word that encompassed a wide range of new theories and ideas that were only beginning to emerge. Changes that take place in a human being as a result of cultural and societal values served as the foundation for the field of cultural anthropology. The field of Cultural Studies developed into a subfield known as Cultural Anthropology, which broadens the scope of Cultural Studies. The word “culture” refers to a wide range of features, including patterns of human behavior, societal conventions, dressing sense, symbols and pictures, and most crucially, the function that tradition had in giving birth to culture and the practice of cultu...
Tracing Women’s Agony and Empowerment in Anita Nair’s Selected Works S. Sumathi Assistant Professor of English Sri Adi Chunchanagiri Women’s College Cumbum- 625516, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India, pIN: 625001 Email- suma03021986@gmail.com Abstract Indian society is characterized women as gentle, dependent, and submissive. They play the position of a mother, sister, wife, and daughter. For ages, women lived below the safety of their dads and mom or husbands. They are predicted to stay below sure boundaries. But now, they begin to thirst for independence, freedom, and self-identity. Indian women writers in English also are great for their demanding situations of patriarchy and open several methods of wondering about present-day social life. Anita Nair is a Post-modern novelist in India, who attempts to provide how her women protagonists are trying to find their individuality or assert self-identity. She has proved herself as an eminent creator in speaking approximatel...
Degrees of Aversion: English as a marker of Identity in the novels of Rohinton Mistry Dr. R. Latha Devi Assistant Professor of English (Sl.Gr.), University College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: lathadevigiri@gmail.com Abstract: Language is a medium of communication and is more influenced by the ideologies of society. One’s culture gets reflected in language and it forms one’s social identity too. One’s thoughts as well as their values occupy the space of one’s language. No wonder that the language is the carrier of culture and the social exchanges can be done by means of language. The formation of social groups and institutions are insurmountable without language. The ethnic group has their own languages keeping them aloof from the dominant and they make every effort to retain their culture, tradition, custom and thereby try to assert their identity. But their struggle seldom offers success. The que...
Negotiating Patriarchal Power and Cultural Identity: Resistance and Agency in Amulya Malladi’s The Mango Season and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk Dr. Nipun Chaudhary Associate Professor, Department of English, Sikkim University, Gangtok Email: nchaudhary@cus.ac.in ORCiD:0000-0002-1748-8394 Abstract This paper critically engages with the cultural construction of patriarchy as a hegemonic ideological system that naturalises gender hierarchies and institutionalises male dominance within both familial and societal frameworks. Through a close textual analysis of The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi and The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami, the study examines how women’s identities, voices, and bodies are culturally inscribed, regulated, and resisted within patriarchal structures. These novels do not merely depict women as passive victims of gendered oppression but foreground them as complex agents navigating intersecting forces of tradition, power, and resistance. Drawing from feminist th...