In this paper we consider the influences of the Indian Mutiny or Uprising of 1857 on gender formations in Anglo-India The first part of our paper provides a concise background to the 1857 Uprising, while the second part explores the reconstructions of Anglo-Indian masculinity and femininity in response to the events of 1857 which shook Britain`s confidence in its ability ..
Anne Devlin`s Belfast Trilogy, which comprises The Long March (1984), Ourselves Alone (1985), and After Easter (1994), received some unfavorable reviews when the plays were premiered, in that the playwright not only interrogated Republicanism and unionism, which had traditionally been male-dominated, but delineated women`s experiences, which had either been invisible..
Delarivier Manley`s Rivella is an account of the life of both the historical Manley and the fictionalized Manley, Rivella, told by a fictionalized male biographer It is thus both a biography and an autobiography, but it is an autobiography that claims to be fiction and a fiction that claims to be history In this engagement with the issues of fiction and truth, story and hist..
Many critics have commented that Radclyffe Hall`s protagonist in The Well of Loneliness, the lesbian Stephen Gordon, can be seen as a man trapped in a woman`s body, a sexual invert, because of the genetic idea Havelock Ellis made popular, that one was born that way Hall, however, interrogates the idea of a reality ordered by scientific discourse by suggesting that experien..
This paper attempts to position Shiva`s thought, not in the context of global ecofeminism but within a specifically Indian cultural matrix It examines the mythopoeic ecological vision of the Vedas and the powerful generative connections established in the Vedas between Nature and the cosmic feminine principles of Prakriti and Shakti-a relationship articulated in the fig..
In the wake of Jean Rhys`s Wide Sargasso Sea, which brilliantly exposed the colonial unconscious that had been locked up in Charlotte Bronte`s Jane Eyre, a number of literary works have retold the famous stories of literary classics Most of these novels recount the original stories from a different perspective and foreground some parts of the story that were either untold..
This paper examines the features integral to the Silver-Fork novels and why they attracted middle-class readers Selecting Vivian Grey as representative of this sub-genre, it reviews those elements generally required in a Silver-Fork fiction It also explores how Disraeli, in Vivian Grey, restructures the formula of the Silver-Fork novels by his representation of the ari..