Volume 13, Number 3, 2021

Volume 13, Number 3, 2021

General Issue


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The Resonance of Music Across Cultures
Rolf J. Goebel
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.00| First published: October 8, 2021
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Music as a Universal Bond and Bridge Between the Physical and the Divine: Transcultural and Medieval Perspectives
Albrecht Classen
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.01 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Globalisation, the Forgotten Phase: Some Personal Reflections
Thakur S Powdyel
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.02 | First published: October 8, 2021
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The Concept of Green School in Bhutan for Holistic Education and Development
S. Chitra & Munna Gurung
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.03 | First published: October 8, 2021
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A Study on Petromodernity, the Socio-cultural Implications of Oil and the Disintegration of Human Behaviour in James Howard Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
Rajan R.& Dr. K. Sujatha
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.04 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Eyes Everywhere: Ecological Migration and State Surveillance in the Age of Iron Man
Thejas Gigy Thomas & Dr. Prasantha Kumar N.S.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.05 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Of Crows and Humans: The Affective Economy of Mourning and Grieving
Alexandra Margarita A. Orbeta
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.06 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Sociology and Animal Studies: Human Responses to Animal Loss in Times of Disaster
Joseph Ching Velasco
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.07 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Animality and Entanglement: The Gothicized “anthropological machine” in Bram Stoker’s short fiction
Vincent Pacheco
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.08 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Interrogating the “Animal”: An Investigation into the Ethics of Man-Animal Divide
Swagata Singha Ray
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.09 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Methodology versus Theory: Historical Approaches and the Problematic Field of the Humanities in Postmodernism
Tetiana Vlasova et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.10 | First published: October 8, 2021
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Bridging Black Male and Female Standpoints through Autoethnographic Cultural Symbiosis in Gloria Naylor’s The Men of Brewster Place
Adishree Vats
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.11 | First published: October 8, 2021
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The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author! Postmodern Metanarrative and the Performance of the Author Function
Arnab Dasgupta
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.12 | First published: October 21, 2021
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The Party of Evil Genius in Orwell’s 1984
Malek J. Zuraikat & Haneen al-Nawasreh
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.13 | First published: October 21, 2021
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State Authority and Lynching in Latin America
Giovanni B. Corvino
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.14 | First published: October 21, 2021
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A Study on Gender Differences in Workplace Communication across Organizations
Kabita Kumari Dash et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.15 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Indian English is also Creole: Incorporating Regional Bias in Research Pedagogy
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.16 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Antimonies of Crude Oil Production in the Niger Delta: Reflection on Ahmed Yerima’s Trilogy
Norbert Oyibo Eze et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.17 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Ras Kimono, the Relics of Slavery and the African Diaspora: A Study on the Socio-Cultural Factors in the Haitian-Biafran Relations
Ibenekwu Ikpechukwuka E. et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.18 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Sexual Violence and the Plights of Internally Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Nigeria
Joy Nneka U. Ejikeme et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.19 | First published: October 21, 2021
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The Use of Foul Language in Pop Music Composition in Nigeria: A Historical Analysis
Nnanyelugo Emelda Chinasa et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.20 | First published: October 21, 2021
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Tertiary Teachers Strike (TTS) and e-Learning Deficit amidst Covid-19 Crisis in Nigeria
Victor Okoro Ukaogo et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.21 | First published: October 21, 2021
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History, Memory and Legend: Contextualizing Joymoti Utsav in Assam
Suranjana Barua & L David Lal
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.22 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Inscribing the Migratory History of Tea Plantation Labours of Assam: A Journey from Ignorance to Experience
Pradip Barman
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.23 | First published: October 25, 2021
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The Metamorphosis of a Female Subject into a Gendered subject: A Study of Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy
Bompi Riba and Karngam Nyori
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.24 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Postcolonial Aesthetics and Sensuous Geographies in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories
Ivy Roy Sarkar & Rashmi Gaur
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.25 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Cosplay Phenomenon: Archaic Forms and Updated Meanings
Tatiana V. Pushkareva & Darya V. Agaltsova
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.26 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Magic on Wheels: A Study of Re-engagement, Re-enactment and Re-staging the Stereotypes of Performativity and Performance of Persons with Disabilities in the Choreography of Syed Sallauddin Pasha
Radhika Sharma & Nagendra Kumar
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.27 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Carnivalesque, Liminality and Social Drama: Characterising the Anti-Structural Potential of Theyyam
Raisun Mathew & Dr Digvijay Pandya
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.28 | First published: October 25, 2021
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Reconceptualization of National Spaces: A Close Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s selected novels with Gloria Anzaldúa´s Nueva Conciencia Mestiza
Shilpi Gupta
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.29 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Resistances to Autobiography: The Indian Experiment with life-writing
Sanghamitra Sadhu
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.30 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Abstract Knowledge, Embodied Experience: Towards a Literary Fieldwork in the Humanities
Nobonita Rakshit & Rashmi Gaur
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.31 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Indigenous “People” in the context of the Right to Self Determination: A Critical Appraisal
Mitul Dutta & Navin Sinha
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.32 | First published: October 26, 2021
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The Duality of Arab Israeli Identity and the Politics of Survival in Sayed Kashua’s Let it Be Morning
Neha Soman et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.33 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Refugees from South Asian Islamic States at the footsteps of Global North: Reading Moshin Hamid’s Exit West as an Anticipation of Postnational Future
Minakshi Paul
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.34 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Who Remembers those “Undocumented Minors”? Locating the Genealogy of the Oppressed in Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends
Indrajit Mukherjee
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.35 | First published: October 26, 2021
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By Me Shall He Be Nursed! Queer Identity and Representation in The Mahabharata
Seema Sinha & Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.36 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Bimala in Ghare-Baire: Tagore’s New Woman Relocating the “World in Her Home”
Ayanita Banerjee 
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.37 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Relocating Colonial Women in Resistance: An Interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh and Chaturanga
T. K. Krishnapriya, Dr Padma Rani, Dr Bashabi Fraser
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.38 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Gender Subtexts in Collusive Linkages between Bhadralok Ethos and Colonial Law in Select Daroga Daptor Narratives
Tapti Roy
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.39 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Gay Subculture and the Cities in India: A Critical Reading of Select Works of R Raj Rao
Sriya Das
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.40 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Atypical Athletic Corporeality and Clinical Embodied Deviance: A Case Study of Dutee Chand
Isha Malhotra & Raj Thakur
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.41 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Semiotic Analysis of Petroglyph «Ancient Turks and the Mother Goddess Umay/Umai»
Tatiev E.E. et al
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.42 | First published: October 26, 2021
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Transnational Spaces in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason
Ajay K. Chaubey
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.43 | First published: October 30, 2021
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