In her influential work Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak examines how marginalized groups, particularly women, are silenced by systems of power. She highlights two types of representation. The first, “representation as speaking for,” involves political advocacy, where a… Read More »Story of Bhubaneshwri Bhaduri in Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak?
In his essay Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasia Disturbances, Roman Jakobson argues that language has a bipolar structure, shifting between the poles of metaphor and metonymy. Some people have a condition called ‘selection deficiency’ or ‘similarity… Read More »Metaphor and Metonymy according to Roman Jakobson
Defamiliarization is an artistic technique that presents ordinary things in a strange or unfamiliar way, encouraging audiences to see them from a new perspective. This concept has influenced 20th-century art and theory, shaping movements like Dadaism, postmodernism, and epic theatre.… Read More »Defamiliarisation by Viktor Shklovsky
The concept of intertextuality, introduced by Julia Kristeva in the late 1960s, has become a significant approach in literary theory. Intertextual analysis is particularly valuable when studying postmodern works, as these often heavily rely on references to other texts. This… Read More »Intertextuality in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Clara is an educated, urban, middle-class woman whom Obi first meets at a dance in England. She is so beautiful that Obi feels awkward around her and accidentally steps on her toes, causing her not to dance with him again.… Read More »Clara character in Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
About the poet Derek Walcott was a renowned poet, playwright, and essayist from Saint Lucia, a small Caribbean island. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature.Much of Walcott’s work examines the complexities of being Caribbean, particularly in the post-colonial context.… Read More »Ruins Of A Great House by Derek Walcott summary and analysis
About The Poet Judith Wright was a renowned Australian poet, environmentalist, and activist. She was deeply committed to preserving Australia’s unique landscapes and biodiversity. Her activism contributed to the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and other natural sites. Some… Read More »Nigger’s Leap, New England by Judith Wright summary and analysis
Is it my clothes, my way of walking,the things I carry in my hand– a book, a bag with knitting-the incongruous pink of my shawl this space cannot hear or is it my own lackof conviction which makesthese vistas of… Read More »Disembarking at Quebec by Margaret Atwood
The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bayand beats with boats of cloud up from the seaagainst this sheer and limelit granite head.Swallow the spine of range; be dark. O lonely air.Make… Read More »Nigger’s Leap, New England By Judith Wright
Read the summary and Analysis A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away. They call her a young country, but… Read More »Australia by A. D. Hope