Critical Insights

  Exploring the Multidimensional Kinship of Women under the Abusive Space in The Color Purple   Abstract : The basic focus of this paper is to attempt a critical study of how Alice Walker, the most famous Afro-American women writer explored the State Apparatuses under the theory of Marxism and Feminism. Alice Walker converges Marxist and feminist perspectives. Walker also demonstrates the concept of the hegemony of society through the women’s character in the novel. In associating with the Apparatuses, it demonstrates how the family and community resulted from the hegemony within the female characters of the novel. The most notable women’s novel of the 1980s The Color Purple in which Walker delineates women in different ways deprived of their freedom, rights, and happiness, enforced to live their life by sacrificing their needs and own desires for male domination family as well as society by bestowing their heads in the novel men hold superiority over women along with th...

 Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! In this blog post, you will find the uploaded question papers of B. A (English)  Final Exam, CBCS syllabus under Dibrugarh University held in the month of May 2023. Click on the following links to download the respective papers: 1.  Indian Writing in English 2.  British Poetry and Drama 3.  GE: Political Science 4.  Literary Theory 5.  Modern European Literature 6.  Partition Literature 7.  Postcolonial Literature 8.  British Romantic Literature 9.  British Literature 18th Century 10.  British Literature 19th Century

 Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! This Post includes a PDF File in the form of SLM on the Properties of language. This SLM was prepared by Aditi Ghosh during a Workshop on SLM organized by Dibrugarh University in the year 2020. The file includes the different properties of the Language studied especially in the context of the field of study of Linguistics. Click to Download

  Uploaded by: Aditi Ghosh Assistant Professor Department of English Maryam Ajmal Women's College of Science & Technology, Hojai (Assam) Hello everyone! This post includes a PPT on "Ovid's Philomela : Breaking Through Female Silence". This PPT entails a detailed account of the representation of female silence both physically and metaphorically surrounding the narrative of Philomela, the woman protagonist of Ovid's Philomela . Click here to Download

  Introduction:   Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular romantic novel. It was published in 1813, but it doesn't display typical romantic characteristics. Rather it follows the style and characteristics of the upcoming Victorian era. It portrays and comments on the social convention of the period. Austen as a novelist is familiar with the title of this novel also. It has a very interesting plot, and the portrayal of characters in it is, on the whole, very realistic and convincing. The novel has a compact structure which shows a high degree of craftsmanship. There are several passages of psychological analysis in the novel to lend depth to it, the novel is rich in comedy with irony as a most striking ingredient of it.    Austen began the book, originally titled the “First impression”, in 1796. Subsequently, the novel was revised and renamed. The theme of pride and Prejudice is very much the same as that of her other novels. The theme here also is lov...