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Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen (1988) poignantly explores grief, loss, and the processes of mourning through the experiences of its protagonist, Mikage Sakurai. This paper undertakes a thanatological reading of the novella, ...

This article analyses oppressive familial dynamics through memory in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. The research employs Antonio Gramsci’s notion of cultural hegemony and Sigmund Freud’s concept of repress...

This article examines how the Partition of Bengal is depicted in the films Kaushik Ganguly's  Bishorjon (2017) and Leena Gangopadhyay’s Mati (2018) as a real and ongoing trauma that continues to influence memory, emot...

This study sheds light on Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, focusing on how memory and nostalgia critically shape protagonist Nora Seed’s search for meaning through alternate lives. It analyses Haig’s use of narrat...

The literature of trauma frequently depends on witnessing via testimony, recollection, and generational storytelling to maintain memory and facilitate healing. Nevertheless, Claire Fuller’s The Memory of Animals (2023...

Climate change, as a defining crisis of the twenty-first century, challenges ecosystems, displaces communities, and unsettles established human-nature hierarchies. Literature has responded through climate fiction, where ...

The Fellowship of the Ring is a novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien that contains many songs and poems that act as vessels of memory, identity, and culture within the Middle-earth. In addition to their decorative use, thes...

The indelible marks that the horror of the Partition and its resultant mass exodus left on the two states of Punjab and Bengal are still felt. The nature of the experience of pathological violence in Punjab has been some...

This article examines the representation of caste, labour, and marginality in Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times and Disaibon Hul: The Call of the Bending Sky through the theoretical lenses...

Mahmoud Darwish’s “State of Siege” presents life under occupation through images of war, loss, and everyday survival. This article studies how the poem places violence and hospitality side by side. Hospitality app...