Khushbu Lakhupota

  Khushbu Lakhupota  MA Semester 4 Paper 206 The African Literature  Written Assignment  A Study of the Novel Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o  Batch 2020-2022 Submitted to: Department of English, MKBU. khushbu22jan93@gmail.com   18 March 2022, Friday  A Study of the Novel Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o  Political Fury and Failed Vision: Petals of Blood, written by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is published in 1977. This work is more tensed. It reflects the effects of Neocolonialism. The power was replaced. In, A Grain of Wheat Ngugi shows that the native people used to wait outside the office of MP. The MP was not interested in improving the situation of poor farmers. The farmers struggle to regain the land was endless and the people were given fake promises. In Neocolonialism Black people formed the government and ruled over their people. The vision of freedom failed. The same problems can be seen in Petals of Blood also. Individuals fight with th...

Hello Friends, In this blog, there are different genres of the BA syllabus that are studied by me in my BA.  Tragedy Othello - William Shakespeare Novels Moby-Dick Herman Melville FYBA Kim Rudyard Kipling SYBA Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy TYBA The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri TYBA The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison TYBA Stories FYBA A Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfield The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore How much land does a Man need? Leo Tolstoy A True Story Mark Twain Blow up with the Ship Wilkie Collins Mother Somerset Maugham SYBA The Trunk of Ganesha Jayanta Mahapatra The Tiger Smiled Jim Corbett The Sage of Tarungiri and Seven Old Seekers Manoj Das The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe I Want to Know Why? Sherwood Anderson The Heathen Jack London Plays FYBA All My Sons Arthur Miller Tughlaq Girish Karnad SYBA The Proposal Anton Chekhov The Boy Comes Home A. A. Milne The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Reunion W. St. John Taylor TYBA Ghashiram Kotwal Vijay...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir in Paper Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. In this blog have a look at the overview of the articles. So, read understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS HISTORY (Comparative Literature & World Literature) BY  SUBHA C. DASGUPTA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   ABSTRACT   ● An overview of the trajectory of Comparative Literature in India.  ● Rabindranath Tagore’s speech on World Literature and with a modern poet-translator as its founder.  ● While British legacies in the study of literature were evident in the early years, there were also subtle efforts towards a decolonizing process and an overall attempt to enhance and nurture creativity.  ● Gradually Indian literature began to receive prominence.  ● Paradigms of approaches in comparative literary studies also shifted from influence and analogy studi...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir in Paper Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. This blog deals with the two articles.  So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Susan Edna Bassnett, FRSL (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) (born 21 October 1945) is a translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Warwick for ten years and taught in its Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, which closed in 2009. As of 2016, she is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Warwick. Educated around Europe, she began her career in Italy and has lectured at universities in the United States. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature. Abstract  ➔ Sooner or later, anyone who claims to be working in comparative literature has to...

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir in Paper Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! About the author: G. N. Devy ★Critic, thinker , editor, educator , activitist. Ganesh N. Devy (1 August 1950-   ) is a thinker, cultural activist and an institution builder best known for the People’s Linguistic Survey of India and the Adivasi Academy created by him. He writes in three languages—Marathi, Gujarati and English. His first full length book in English After Amnesia (1992) was hailed immediately upon its publication as a classic in literary theory. Since its publication, he has written and edited close to ninety influential books in areas as diverse as Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Education, Linguistics and Philosophy. http://gndevy.in/ "When a language dies, something irreplaceable dies" G. N. Devy  Key Words ★ Translating Irish works in...