IAFOR Journal Category: IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities

Editor’s Introduction

Welcome to the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities – Volume 10 – Issue 1 Dear readers, In line with established tradition, this volume represents our continuing endeavour to unfurl the vast tapestry of the arts and humanities in a profound, inclusive, and illuminating manner. Herein we embark upon an expedition to find the new

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U.S. Civil War Redux? A Prevue

Author: Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Email: publications@iafor.org Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.13 Citation: García-Osuna, A. J. (2023). U.S. Civil War Redux? A Prevue IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.13 Abstract The thought that the United States could engage in a second civil war

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(Re)Visiting the Traumatised Indian Matriarch Through Contemporary Retellings: A Psycho-Cultural Exploration

Authors: Abhirami S, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, India Smrutisikta Mishra, National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, India Email: en20d1001@nitpy.ac.in Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.12 Citation: S, A., & Mishra, S. (2023). (Re)Visiting the Traumatised Indian Matriarch Through Contemporary Retellings: A Psycho-Cultural Exploration. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.12 Abstract The Mahabharata (composed in

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The Significance of Colour Symbolisms in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979)

Author: Ankita Sen, Presidency University, India Email: senankita534@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.11 Citation: Sen, A. (2023). The Significance of Colour Symbolisms in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979). IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.11 Abstract The paper seeks to critically explore Angela Carter’s use of colour symbolisms in her short story “The

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Gardening as Activism: Cultivating Human Minds in A Gardener in Wasteland

Author: Arundhati Sen, Presidency University, India Email: senarundhati7@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.10 Citation: Sen, A. (2023). Gardening as Activism: Cultivating Human Minds in A Gardener in Wasteland. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.10 Abstract Jotiba Phule’s Gulamgiri (1873), which is widely translated as Slavery, equates casteism with slavery. His book carefully deconstructs

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The Poetics of Borderlands: Reflections on Oral Folk Poetry from Assam’s Barak Valley during Bangladesh Liberation War

Author: Sushrita Acharjee, Adamas University, India Email: sushrita1.acharjee@adamasuniversity.ac.in Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.09 Citation: Acharjee, S. (2023). The Poetics of Borderlands: Reflections on Oral Folk Poetry from Assam’s Barak Valley during Bangladesh Liberation War. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.09 Abstract In 1971, the civil war in the Pakistani state and consequent genocide

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Turbulence of the Fin-de-siècle: Arts Through the Looking-Glass of Intermediality

Author: Mykyta Isagulov, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Email: mi338@exeter.ac.uk Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.08 Citation: Isagulov, M. (2023). Turbulence of the Fin-de-siècle: Arts Through the Looking-Glass of Intermediality. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.08 Abstract This paper addresses the fin-de-siècle period as a time when most of what are called intermedial processes,

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Memory and Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Author: Nidhu Kumar Dhar, Assam University, India Email: nidhudhar1@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.07 Citation: Dhar, N. K. (2023). Memory and Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.07 Abstract Haruki Murakami introduces a wide array of issues and topics in his fiction;

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Impact of Broken Homes on Children’s Psychology in Indian Writing in English

Author: Priyanka Singla, Government College for Women, India Email: priyanka.ind81@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.06 Citation: Singla, P. (2023). Impact of Broken Homes on Children’s Psychology in Indian Writing in English. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.06 Abstract Indian Writing in English has emerged as a significant genre of literature, reflecting the complexities

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Historicising Foreign Powers’ Intervention in the Nigeria–Biafra War (1967-1970)

Author: Uwomano Okpevra, Delta State University, Nigeria Email: ubokpevra@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.05 Citation: Okpevra, U. (2023). Historicising Foreign Powers’ Intervention in the Nigeria–Biafra War (1967-1970). IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.05 Abstract The fratricidal war between Nigeria and Biafra ended some over five decades ago. But the lessons learned are not

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Television as a Tool of Memory and Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s Novels

Authors: Priya Meena, Delhi Technological University, India Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Delhi Technological University, India Email: priya1996meena@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.04 Citation: Meena, P., & Dwivedi, R. R. (2023). Television as a Tool of Memory and Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s Novels. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.04 Abstract Globalization epitomizes the convergence of

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Legislation, Reaction and Ecological Degradation: An Eco-Critical Analysis of John Grisham’s The Appeal

Authors: Preethika S, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, India Chitra Sivasubramaniam, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, India Email: preethikas7@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.03 Citation: S, P., & Sivasubramaniam, C. (2023). Legislation, Reaction and Ecological Degradation: An Eco-Critical Analysis of John Grisham’s The Appeal. IAFOR

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Digitalised Responses: Understanding the Digital Literary Spaces in the Light of Keshava Guha’s Accidental Magic

Authors: Sapphire Mahmood Ahmed, University of Calicut, India K. Rizwana Sultana, University of Calicut, India Email: sabi.zafire@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.02 Citation: Ahmed, S. M., & Sultana, K. R. (2023). Digitalised Responses: Understanding the Digital Literary Spaces in the Light of Keshava Guha’s Accidental Magic. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.02 Abstract

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A Structural Analysis of Religious Legends about an Iconic Image in the Philippines

Author: Jose Macatangay, De La Salle Lipa, Philippines Email: jose.macatangay@dlsl.edu.ph Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.01 Citation: Macatangay, J. (2023). A Structural Analysis of Religious Legends about an Iconic Image in the Philippines. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.01 Abstract The study aimed to conduct a structural analysis of seven legends surrounding an iconic

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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 10 – Issue 1

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 10 – Issue 1 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: August 16, 2023 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1 Editor’s Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Alfonso J. García-Osuna, Editor IAFOR Journal of

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Borges’s Library of Babel: Consciousness Assaults the Universe

Author: Alfonso J. García-Osuna, Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Email: publications@iafor.org Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.07 Citation: García-Osuna, A. J. (2022). Borges’s Library of Babel: Consciousness Assaults the Universe. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.07 Abstract Short article with no abstract. Keywords: Library of Babel, Borges, consciousness

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Decipher Symptoms of Asperger Syndrome: Role of Early Intervention in Colin Fischer

Author: Preetha M Email: reetha.m@kristujayanti.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.06 Citation: M, P. (2022). Decipher Symptoms of Asperger Syndrome: Role of Early Intervention in Colin Fischer. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.06 Abstract Historically, few important writers have focused on the developmental disorders of their characters. In recent years, however, there has been

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Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Author: Damini Bhattacharya, University of Southampton, UK Email: d.bhattacharya117@gmail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.05 Citation: Bhattacharya, D. (2022). Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.05 Abstract Individual identities are not only a summation of one’s unique choices and experiences, but are also

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Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses

Authors: Kowsalya G., Bishop Heber College, India Dhanabal C., Bishop Heber College, India Email: kowsyguru@gmail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.04 Citation: Kowsalya, G., & Dhanabal, C. (2022). Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.04 Abstract For Ancient Greeks, beauty

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Mapping the Motif of the Wandering Jew in Salim Kumar’s Karutha Joothan

Authors: Jeslin Mery John, St Thomas College, India Asha Susan Jacob, St Thomas College, India Email: jeslinmery@gmail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.03 Citation: John, J. M., & Jacob, A. S. (2022). Mapping the Motif of the Wandering Jew in Salim Kumar’s Karutha Joothan. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.03 Abstract The motif of

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Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Author: Suravi Roy, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, India Email: suravi.roy@skbu.ac.in https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.02 Citation: Roy, S. (2022). Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.02 Abstract The central image in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines (1988) is that of the “upside-down house”. The “upside-down house” was a

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Is an Explanation a Reason?

Author: Paul Rastall, Independent Academic, UK Email: paul.rastall@googlemail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.01 Citation: Rastall, P. (2022). Is an Explanation a Reason? IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.01 Abstract Are reasons and explanations the same things? The paper considers explanations and reasons in a range of contexts and identifies similarities and differences in

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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: December 31, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2 Articles Is an Explanation a Reason? Paul Rastall, Independent Academic, UK Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow

Editor’s Introduction

Welcome to the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities – Volume 9 – Issue 1 Most of the authors that have contributed to this issue demonstrate a grounding on a critical model whose imprint on the major areas of humanist analysis is uncontested: feminist theory. Thus, several articles may seem to present similar types of

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Fellini in Memoriam – The Absurdist Elements of Fellini’s Cinema as a Reflection of our Disrupted COVID-19 Reality

Author: Jytte Holmqvist, HBU/UCLan School of Media, Communication & Creative Industries, UK Email: Jholmqvist@uclan.ac.uk https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.11 Citation: Holmqvist, J. (2022). Fellini in Memoriam – The Absurdist Elements of Fellini’s Cinema as a Reflection of our Disrupted COVID-19 Reality. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.11 Abstract The current COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to

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The Beasts and the Beastly: Colonial Discourse and the (Non-)human Animals of Pantisocracy

Author: Md. Monirul Islam, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Email: monirul.eng@presiuniv.ac.in https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.10 Citation: Islam, Md. M. (2022). The Beasts and the Beastly: Colonial Discourse and the (Non-)human Animals of Pantisocracy. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.10 Abstract In 1794 Coleridge and Southey made a plan to set up a utopian community on the banks

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The Islamic Other in Post-9/11 America: Reading Resistance in Hamid and Halaby

Author: Pathik Roy, St. Joseph’s College, West Bengal, India Email: pathik.roy@gmail.com Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.09 Citation: Roy, P. (2022). The Islamic Other in Post-9/11 America: Reading Resistance in Hamid and Halaby. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.09 Abstract The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 11th September,

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The Incompetent Antagonism of Wit: A Study of Hamlet and Catch-22

Author: P. A. Shifana, St Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala, India Email: shifanapalakeezhil1@gmail.com Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.08 Citation: Shifana, P. A. (2022). The Incompetent Antagonism of Wit: A Study of Hamlet and Catch-22. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.08 Abstract Unique among other rhetorical devices, wit can appear complex and banal simultaneously. The

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Literary Writing and Personal Identity in Borges and Pessoa

Author: Shlomy Mualem, Bar Ilan University, Israel Email: shlomy.mualem@biu.ac.il Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.07 Citation: Mualem, S. (2022). Literary Writing and Personal Identity in Borges and Pessoa. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.07 Abstract In a famous passage in “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes describes the writing process as embodying the

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Can the “Mutelated” Subaltern be Free? Reading Friday’s Subversion in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

Authors: Hemangi Bhagwat, University of Mumbai, India Tanya D’souza, University of Mumbai, India Email: tanilicious1993@gmail.com Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.06 Citation: Bhagwat, H., & D’souza, T. (2022). Can the “Mutelated” Subaltern be Free? Reading Friday’s Subversion in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.06 Abstract J. M. Coetzee’s 1986 novel