ARTICLES

RASHMI GAUR: Colonialism and Beyond it: The
Glass Palace as a Symbol of Hope
F. POURGIV, P. GHASEMI, RAHMAN AMIRI: Thanatos in Dylan Thomas’ Poetry
SEYED MOHAMMAD ANOOSHEH: Romanticism and Wordsworth’s Criticism on Poetry
HARPREET KAUR BAHRI: Anxiety to ‘Speak’: Issue of Rape and the Epistolary form in The Color Purple and Clarissa 
MICHAEL PAUL HOGAN: Of Root and Sky: An Essay on Christopher Fry’s The Boy with a Cart
NGEMUNANG AGNES NGALE LYONGA: Poetry as a Vehicle for Promoting Cultural Consciousness: Examples of Langston Hughes and Kofi Awoonor
S. L. PEERAN: Esoteric, Aesthetic and Metaphysical Poetry of R. K. Singh
PARVIN GHASEMI: Virginia Woolf and the Question of Self and Other
B. CAUVERY: Variations in Moods, Words and Tones in Baldev Mirza
ABDUL RASHID BIJAPURE: The Poetry of R. K. Singh – An Assessment
PREM K. SRIVASTAVA: The Postmodern Condition and the Politics of the Popular      

BOOK REVIEWS

Cross and Creation: An Anthology of Poems
by R. K. Singh
Reviewed by PASHUPATI JHA

The Pickup
by Nadine Gordimer’s
Reviewed by PREETI DEWAN

D. GNANASEKARAN: Shobha De’s Fiction: Reinforcement of the Indian Ethos
PATRICIA PRIME: Secrets Need Words: A Critical Essay on the Haiku and Tanka of R. K. Singh
N. P. SINGH: “The Shirt of Flame”, a Critique of Bharata, that is rural India
PURNIMA RAY: Ujjal Singh Bahri as a Poet
BASAVARAJ NAIKAR: Desert Blooms: The Satirical Poetry of T. R. Rajasekharaiah
QAISER ZOHA ALAM: Which Place is Corruption Free?: Corruption and African Literature in English
R. S. TIWARY: Above The Earth’s Green
G. D. Barche: ‘Sun Motif’ in the Post Independence Indian Poetry in English
PREETY GAUTAM: Money Motif in the Novels of R. K. Narayan

BOOK REVIEWS

Cover To Cover: A Collection of Poems
Reviewed by K. V. RAGHUPATHI

The Far Horizons
by Darshan Singh Maini
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

RANA NAYAR: Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas: Multiple Historical Perspectives and Literary Art
SIMI MALHOTRA & SAUGATA BHADURI: Existence, Humanity, Sociality: A Study of Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism (1946)
TEJINDER KAUR: Portrayal of Diaspora Experiences in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA: Loss and Recovery: Death in Sandra Lunnon’s Poetry
PRASENJIT MAITI: History and Counterhistory Novels and Politics
R. K. SINGH: R. S. Tiwary: A Sage Litterateur Poetry

BOOK REVIEWS

RAJESH K. SRIVASTAVA: “The Novels of Kamala Markandaya”
R. K SINGH: Psychic Knot: “Search for Tolerance in Indian English Fiction”
K. G. SRIVASTAVA: “Great Poems of John Keats. Translated in Hindi Verse”
RALPH J. CRANE & RADHIKA MOHANRAM: “Shifting, Continents/Colliding Cultures: Diaspora Writing of the Indian Subcontinent”
ASHA VISWAS: “Mortgaged Moorings”
TR. MOHAN SINGH KARKI: KABIR: “Selected Couplets from The Sakhi in Transversion”
KHADER TWAFIQ KHADER: Style in Drama: “A Semiolinguistic Perspective”
I. K. SHARMA: “Luand Badali” by Chandra Singh Badali
U. S. BAHRI: “Dogri: Phonological and Grammatical Sketch”
           
Cover To Cover: A Collection of Poems
by R. K. Singh & U. S. Bahri
Reviewed by R. RABINDRANATH MENON
Reviewed by PATRICIA PRIME

G. D. BARCHE: Prefatory Note
R. K. SINGH: Kamala Das and some other Recent Indian English Women Poets: Expression of Female Sexuality
R. S. PATHAK: Indian Women Poets: Mapping out New Terrains
I. K. SHARMA: Unveiling An Anthology
G. S. BALARAMA GUPTA: Starlets Matter Too: An Essay in Defence of Some Little-known Indian English Women Poets
PRUNOTI CHUCKERBUTTY: Themes and Stylistic Choices in Indian Women Poets in English
TAPATI DEY: Stylistic Devices in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry
N. K. NAIR: Kamala Das: An Iconoclast
PRAKASH JOSHI: The Love-Lust Dichotomy in the Poetry of Kamala Das
M. A. NARE: Sometimes I Tell this Tale to the River: A ‘New Avatar’ of Amrita Pritam
G. D. BARCHE: Select Poems of Sunita Jain: A Study in Coupling Complex
INDIRA NITYANANDAN: Sujata Bhat and Shalini Gupta: In Search of an Indian Identity
SHOBHA SHINDE: “I, A Woman” (The Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood and Prabhjot Kaur)
S. SAMTANI: An Appraisal of Monkey Shadows of Sujata Bhatt
G. D. BARCHE: Select Poems of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath:A Study in Patanjal Psychology
JYOTI RANE: Select American and Indian Women Poets : A Study in Outlook Regarding Parents, Marriage and Lovers

(Special issue on New Zealand Poetry,
edited by Patricia Prime)

(Special issue on the Poetry of
U. S. Bahri & R. K. Singh)

G. D. BARCHE: Deconstructing the Deconstruction in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
MICHAEL PAUL HOGAN: Beyond The Allotted Heights: An Essay on the Poetry of Ujjal Singh Bahri
MICHAEL PAUL HOGAN: The Poetry of Ernest Hemingway: An Introduction
CHANCHAL SINGH: Home Coming (A Short Story)
FRANZ K. BASKETT: Jill (A Short Story)
ELAIN HATFIELD: The Man Who Lost One of Everything

(Special issue on New Zealand Poetry,
featuring 32 Modern New Zealand Poets,
edited by Patricia C. Prime)

(Special issue on The Black Fiction,
edited by Asha Viswas)

ASHA VISWAS: Introduction
ADREMI RAJI OYELADE: Character Theory in the Black Novel
ADREMI BAMIKUNLE: Men Creators and Created
Gods – A Study of Achebe’s Humanist Philosophy in
Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God
OMOSADE OLUSOLA OMOKORE: Feminist Challenges to Oppression in the South African Post-Sharpville Novel: Lauretta Ngobo’s Cross
of God
KAYODE G. KOFOWOROIA: The Search Motif in Ngugi Wa Thiango’s Matigari
VITA C. NWALU: Festus Iyayi and the Slipping Terrain of the Marxist-Oriented African Writer
O. P. MATHUR: The Hero Between: A Comparitive Study of Ngugi’s Waiyakiand Anand’s Lalu
R. S. SHARMA: Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross: Narrator as Episign & Device
R. L. BHATTACHARJEE: The Theme of Betrayal in Peter Abraham’s A Wreath for Udomo
ROSE C. ACHOLONU: Nigerian Novelist – Victim of Identity Crisis?
ISODORE DIALA: André Brink’s White Female: Anti-Apartheid Rebels
CHARLES ANGMORE: Literature and Politics in Ghana
O. P. MATHUR: Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas: A Comparative Study in Social Protest and Affirmation
ASHA VISWAS: New Images of Black Manhood: A Study of the Novels of Ernest J. Gaines

K. V. SURENDRAN: A Passage to E. M. Forster’s India
AVTAR SINGH: Feminine Sensibility in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya – A Study of Nectar in a Sieve,
Two Virgins and Possession
R. SARASWATHI: The Major Symbol in Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice – A Study
M. LOUTFY NOFAL: The Language of the Graceless – Three Novels of the 1950’s
R. S. TIWARI: A Quartet of Indo-Anglian Poets
G. B. SURAL: “The Windhover”: A Study in the Pre-Raphaelite Tradition
ASHA VISWAS: Suppressed Voices – A Study of Three Victorian Poems
ELAINE HATFIELD: Confession (A Short Story)

Poems by ASHA VISWAS, TEJINDER KAUR and VISHNU P. JOSHI

The issue is devoted to a Collection of Haiku of Patricia C. Prime (New Zealand), Catherine Mair (New Zealand) and R. K. Singh (India)

(Special issue on Contemporary New Zealand Literature, edited by R. K. Singh)

R. K. SINGH: Introduction: New Zealand Literature – Some Recent Works
MARK PIRIE: Restructuring New Zealand Literature – Next Wave Writing in Aotearoa – New Zealand
RALPH J. CRANE: The Shadbolt Vision – An Introduction to the Work of Maurice Shadbolt
WILLIAM E. MORRIS: New Zealand Poetry – A Perspective
PATRICIA C. PRIME: Singing Song After Song
PATRICIA C. PRIME: No Human Voice, Only the Voice of Birds
NIGEL GEARING: Maori Publishing: Boom or Bubble?
MITALI DE SARKAR & R. K. SINGH: Beachy Summers, Tsunami, Artichokes, and Roots in the Drains – Vivienne Plumb’s Love Knots
PETER DANE: Rosemary Menzies – “Very Few of us feel Normal”
ERNEST J. BERRY: Recent Haiku in New Zealand – A Bird’s Eye-View

(Special issue on Stream of Consciousness in Indian English Fiction, edited by P. M. Nayak)

TEJINDER KAUR: Stream-of-Consciousness Technique and the Indian Novel in English
MULK RAJ ANAND: Roots and Flowers – Content and Form in Untouchable and Kanthapura
ALKA SAXENA: Raja Rao’s Kanthapura – An Indian Approach to the Stream-of-Consciousness Technique
HARISH RAIZADA: Stream-of-Consciousness Technique in Mulk Raj Anand’s Short Stories
VANDANA DATTA: The Inner Landscape – A Study of Stream-of-Consciousness in the Works of Anita Desai
RAVI NANDAN SINHA: Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock – The Triumph of the Philosophy of Flux
KAMINI DINESH: Fire on the Mountain – The Contours of the Mind
P. S. SWAIN: The Unruffled Stream – Jaya in That
Long Silence
CHARU VERMA: A River Sutra – Changing Spectrum of Sub-Conscious

QAISER ZOHA ALAM: Commonwealth Literature Studies – An Overview
S. N. PRASAD: Turning Points in the African Novelists’ Experiment with Language and Technique
AVTAR SINGH: Cultural Confrontation in V. S. Naipaul’s A House of Mr. Biswas
AMINA KISHORE: Derek Walcott: An Island within an Island
SHAGUFTA IMTIAZ: Metaphor as Social Construction of Reality – Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel
ANISUR RAHMAN: Modernism and Australian Novel
AMINA KISHORE ANSARI: In Celebration of Homecoming – A Study of Les Murray’s The Daylight Moon
SUBHAS CHANDRA SAHA: The Convicts of Australia – Judith Wright’s Tribute
D. GNANASEKARAN: Feminist Perspectives in the Post-Colonial Canadian Fiction
K. M. CHANDAR: What Ails Indian Writing in English?
AVDHESH KUMAR SINGH: The Trotter-Name - Allan Sealy’s “I-Witness” – History of his Anglo-Indian Community
R. BHAGWAN SINGH: The Pakistani Perception of the Partition Trauma
BONANI CHATTERJEE SINGH: The Polemics of Language in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

(Special issue on Post-Colonial Indian
English Literature, edited by
R. A. Singh & Sanjay Kumar)

SANJAY KUMAR & R. A. SINGH: Introduction
SUMANTH MUTHYALA: The Impossible Collage: Constructions of Post-colonial Subjectivity and Ethnic Difference in Kirin Narayan’s Love, Stars and All That
B. M. SINGH: Writing for the Margins: A Note on Some Indian Immigrant Writers in Canada with special reference to M. G. Vassanji’s No New Land (1991) and Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey (1991)
M. S. NAGARAJAN: Celebrating the Transformed Conscience: The Instance of Jasmin
O. P. BHATNAGAR: Politico-Cultural Foregrounding of Freedom in K. S. Venkatramani’s Kandan the Patriot
K. KRISHNAMOORTHY AITHAL: Indo-British Encounter in Kamala Markandaya’s Novels
P. M. NAYAK & SADANANDA MISRA:
Colonial Consciousness in Markandayas’s A Silence of
Desire and Possession
INDRANI HALDAR: Feminine Voices in an Alien Tongue: Pioneering Bengali Women Writers in English
R. A. SINGH: Colonial Consciousness and Identity Crisis: A Note on Arun Joshi’s Central Characters
N. MEENA BELLIAPPA: Urban Consciousness and Indian Fiction in English
SANJAY KUMAR: The Nowhere Man: The Exiled Self in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English August: An Indian Story
BIR BAHADUR SINGH: Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Black Bird as a Colonial Discourse: A Critique
SHAGUFTA IMTIAZ: “Place and Displacement” in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tenant