INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE (IJML) 4.1 JANUARY 2014 ISSUE PUBLISHED

Contents of IJML 4.1 January 2014

CRITICAL AND RESEARCH ARTICLES

From Hyphenation to Amalgamation: A Study of Multicultural Elements in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

--V. Vinod Kumar & R. Chitra Shobana
Political and Cultural History of Canada in E. J. Pratt’s Epic Narrative Towards the Last Spike

--Venkatesh Puttaiah

Provincialism to Comsopolitanism: The Cultural Dynamics of the Indian Diaspora as Reflected in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Narratives

--Sharada Allamneni

Derek Walcott and Négritude: Poetry and Political Imagination

--Rohit Phutela

Displacement and Selfhood in Morrison’s Beloved and Fugard’s “Master Harold”… and the boys

--Bibhudutt Dash

Problematizing Cultural Translation: The Scopes and Gaps in Texts

--Anju Antony

Broken Bangles: Girl Children in Anita Desai’s Select Novels

--Vincent Aerathu

Religious History and Diasporic Condition in M. G. Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida

--Bakeel Rizq Ahmed Battah

Marital Displacement and Uprootdness in Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird

--Bhavana Shriavstava

The Divided World of Bunty in Manu Bhandari's Aapka Bunty: Psycho- Sociological Effects of Divorce on the Child

--Lata Mishra

Jayanta Mahapatra’s Temple: A Feminist Perspective

--Bimal Kumar

Transcending the Gender Normative: Asimov’s Female Cyborg

--Lekshmi R. Nair

Repression, Ramification and Recognition: Development of the Female Protagonist in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

--Mini V. S.

Men in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time

--A. Padmavathy

Journey across Fantastical Spaces: Dimensions of the Virtual World in Yatra

--Parvathy Mohan

Love and Marriage Songs of the Kondhs in Sitakant Mahapatra’s The Awakened Wind: The Oral Poetry of the Indian Tribes

--Santosh K. Padhy

Reformative Vision for Husband-Wife Relationship in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe 

--Shalini Sharma

Gender Discourse in Margaret Laurence’s The Fire-Dwellers

--Soundarya Joseph

Ecological Issues Reflected in the Selected Poems of K. V. Dominic

--Rincy Mol Sebastian

SHORT STORIES

Bhyaagaraa

Trilok Mehra (Trans. D. C. Chambial)

Enigmatic Pleasures

--Ramesh K. Srivastava

Another World

--Pronab Kumar Majumder

Ripples across the Border

--Manas Bakshi

INTERVIEW

Interview with Damien Wilkins

--Patricia Prime

POETRY

To a Child: A Father’s Pledge

--Hazara Singh

I Am Child

--Hazara Singh

Wallowing

--Manas Bakshi

Pastoral

--Manas Bakshi

Multiple Rooms of Life

--Pronab Kumar Majumder

White Birds

--Rob Harle

Retail Therapy

--Rob Harle

Fat Duck Road

Rob Harle

No Hope

--Stephen Gill

My Feelings

--Manohar Mouli Biswas (Translated from Bangla by Jaydeep Sarangi)

Rebellion

--Manohar Mouli Biswas (Translated from Bangla by Jaydeep Sarangi)

Phoolan Devi

--Manohar Mouli Biswas (Translated from Bangla by Jaydeep Sarangi)

Chant for Revolution

--Manohar Mouli Biswas (Translated from Bangla by Jaydeep Sarangi)

Samson

--Talluri Mathew Bhaskar

The Murmur

--Rajiv Khandelwal

Your Shoes

--Rajiv Khandelwal

Symphony

--Rajiv Khandelwal

Let the Humanity Be Your Religion

--Sangeeta Mahesh

Forgotten Humanity

--Sugandha Agarwal

What I Search for?

--K. V. Dominic

BOOK REVIEWS

Rob Harle’s (ed.) Building Bridges: Poems from Australia & India

--Peter Mitchell

Jaydeep Sarangi’s Silent Days

--Vivekanand Jha

Our Esteemed Contributors