the area of cultural studies. It has become popular since the early 1980’s, this symbolises freedom and expression. Street art can truly be valued only if we consider its place in the lineage of fine art history and the outcome it has had on our modern society. They act as reflections of ourselves and the cities in which we live. Unconfined by form, medium, or message, the art form offers creative freedom and while artists have varied motivations behind their work, graffiti and street art tends to
Women that were attracted to the same sex were frightened to speak openly about their sexuality due to fears of being judged by family and friends because of the stigma surrounding being attracted to anyone other than a male. Feminist groups and writers created a new strategy to weaken male supremacy, “Political Lesbianism” (Richardson, 2000). In 1979, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist group published a paper titled “Political Lesbianism: The case against sexuality”. This stood for the idea that women
middle-class bourgeois revolution as Jones suggests. Maza shifts away from economic facts and instead looks at the literature to ask if there was a “middle class.” Using French writers that range from intellectual to the ordinary citizen, Maza argues that societies did not single out middle class-conscious; therefore writers did not see a middle class as a problem or solution. Using this discourse of language in these writings, social and political understanding formulates to show the absence of a
people in India is mostly based on agriculture. Hari has a strong humanistic bond with their landed property left by his father. He tries his level best to protect those lands. He feels a heart’s content to look at the crops yielded by those lands. The writer beautifully expressed the relation between Hari and his lands, “To Hari, it had always been a matter of prestige rather than money, of family pride; his was the sort of emotional involvement that could not be reduced to terms of profit and loss” (19;
lifetime’s worth of recollections as well as in the substantial influence it holds for the ageing individual. Memory is essential to the construction of one’s sense of identity, a proposition undergirding St Augustine’s Confessions and echoed by writers and philosophers alike.1 The English philosopher John Locke asserts that ‘it is plain consciousness, as far as ever it can be extended, should it be to ages past, which unites existences and actions, very remote in time, into the same person’.2 In
area of the researchers since the last few decades for its diverse writing of African phenomenon. Portrayal of the writing by its authors has been such that it fascinates the readers irrespective of its literary genre. A creation of an author is a reflection of his life and it helps the readers appreciate their life and society through his perspective that he depicts. The African literature churns through the world literature by leading in the fiction category. The African authors by and large depict
tradition(). The novel is not merely a wolf story, but an encyclopedia of Mongolia culture on many aspects, including ecology, society, nomads’ life, religion, philosophy, allusion, dialect and history etc, and a masterpiece of the national character reflection and suggestion. The film of wolf totem adapted from the novel, and takes 7 years to finish, it tells the similar stories happened in the novel, but at the same time, it also add and omit the messages in detail. The whole work evaluated as the biographical
In her autobiography I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers, caregivers, and social activists in a conflicting age of progress, hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Hilda Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father
a women’s rights newspaper written by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that was weekly published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872. The goal of the paper was to bring more women to their side and to raise awareness. Stanton was the main writer, while Anthony was the publisher and business manager. Unique topics that weren’t common in newspapers at the time were discussed such as: domestic violence, divorce, and reproductive rights. An example is from an issue that spoke about infants being
An Evaluative Approach of the Quest for Self Identity in Woman Self in The Dark Holds No Terror Lopa Das Assistant Teacher, Bhabanipur Trigunamoyee Primary School, Murshidabad, West Bengal, email id: lopadas200@gmail.com Corresponding Email id: lopadas200@gmail.com Mob no: 7384163423 Abstract:- The novels of Shashi Deshpande revolves around the sufferings and suffocating situation of female section in the contemporary Indian society. The second novel of Shashi Deshpande The Dark Holds No Terror