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Melodrama, Ascetic Modality, and Communist Self-fashioning: Mukhamukham and the Communist Hero in Malayalam Cinema

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P. Muhammed Afzal

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sceinces, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), Pilani, Rajasthan, India-333031. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9989-6251. E-mail: muhammed.p@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.30

Melodrama, Ascetic Modality, and Communist Self-fashioning: Mukhamukham and the Communist Hero in Malayalam Cinema

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This paper treats the Malayalam film Mukhamukham and the debates it engendered in the Kerala public sphere about the history and legacy of communism as an archive of passions and disavowals that have shaped the political subjectivities in contemporary Kerala and explores how the film offers a critique of the Left popular in Kerala. Through a critique of the ascetic modality of the communist hero, Mukhamukham offers a critique of the representative strategies through which the communist hero was produced in the early Left political melodramas in Malayalam, which have been a significant part of the Left’s constitutive role in the construction of the domain of the popular in Kerala. The attempt in this paper is to read the film as one that, while marked by liberal prejudices, offers a critique of the Left popular and certain prevailing notions on the Left in Kerala. The paper explores how the film represents the figure of the revolutionary; and the shift from the melodramatic conventions of the construction of the revolutionary figure that Gopalakrishnan attempts in the film.

Keywords: melodrama, Left popular, Communist self-fashioning, Malayalam cinema, Kerala

Cognitive & Pragmatic Approach to the Phraseological Intensifiers of Political Discourse

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Nadejda Zubareva1 & Iroda Siddikova2

PhD Candidate1.  DSc, Professor2. Comparative Linguistics Department, National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek. Contact: zubarevan@yahoo.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.29

Cognitive & Pragmatic Approach to the Phraseological Intensifiers of Political Discourse

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The present paper reports on a study that aims to explore the cognitive and pragmatic potential of leveraging phraseological intensifiers in English political discourse. The authors argue that the phraseological intensifiers of political discourse could not be discussed without any contribution to the extra-linguistic context. Therefore, the present study works with a cognitive linguistic explanation of the phraseological intensifiers used by English politicians and journalists as well as performed pragmatic impact that aimed to foster the relevant conceptualization process. The suggestion of phraseological intensifiers depends on context linguistic meaning in the employed by the authors cognitive-pragmatic paradigm. This paper also denotes a wide range of relative to intensity categories, which should be distinguished from it. Such an analysis allows the authors to account for the wide distribution of intensifiers and their co-occurrence with categories that do not encode degree variables. The results of the study show that phraseological intensifiers significantly outperformed in the degree of pragmatic suggestion in political discourse and made use of them in a more appropriate way.

Keywords: Intensification; Phraseological Intensifiers; Cognitive; Pragmatic; Political discourse.

Gendered Parenting influence on Children’s Socialization to Gender Stereotype in Marital life

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Nisrutha Dulla & Sugyanta Priyadarshini

1,2 School of Humanities, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

1nisrutha@gmail.com, 2sugyanta.priyadarshini@kiit.ac.in

1 ORCID: 0000-0003-0365-8281. 2ORCID: 0000-0001-7660-6162

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.28

Gendered Parenting influence on Children’s Socialization to Gender Stereotype in Marital life

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This research work draws attention towards heated debate on transfer of gender biased ideology to generations embedding from gendered parenting. Gendered parenting has the potential to be a breeding ground for fueling the belief of gender stereotyping in the minds of their offsprings. This notion of gender stereotyping has created a picture in the heads of the descendants regarding the fixed gender roles which develops gendered socialization in governing the social world from the lens of gender biasness. The objective of the study is to examine empirically the impact of gendered parenting on gendered socialization in their children’s marital life. The study adopts thirty-two-items scale devised by Brogan & Kutner (1976) and eight- items scale under Gender Role Stereotype Scale (2012) by taking into consideration a sample size of eight hundred respondents comprising of highly educated married professionals and their parents. The findings revealed that children have rightly perceived their parent’s act of gender stereotype in their childhood. Consequently, despite being highly educated, the act of gender stereotyping continues in their married life as they burgeoned under the reflection of gendered parenting. Furthermore, it is also interpreted in the analysis that the female respondents are adversely affected by the pervasive bias and prejudices of gender stereotype in professional life in comparison to the male respondents. The study makes efforts to enhance the understanding of the community of parents to limit the transmission of gendered ideology to their next generations, thereby, progressing towards egalitarian society.

Keywords: Gender, Gendered Parenting, Gender Stereotype, Gender Socialization, Marriage, Couples.

Aesthetics of Excess: The Singing and Dancing of Pey in the Folktales from Karisial Kadu

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Swathi Sudhakaran1 & Milind Brahme2

1Ph.D. candidate, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT Madras. ORCID id: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-0881. Email id: ammusswathi@gmail.com

2Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences department, IIT Madras

ORCHID id: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5427-4611. Email id: brahme@iitm.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.26

Aesthetics of Excess: The Singing and Dancing of Pey in the Folktales from Ka?isial Kadu

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The article explores the singing and dancing of pey, a dual spirit (benevolent and malevolent) found in the folktales from Ka?isial K?du (the area around Tuticorin district in southern Tamil Nadu, India) as embodying aesthetics of excess. The tales have been collected by Ki. Rajanarayanan in Na?upu?a Katai Kalañiya? (repository of folktales). Although a dual spirit, pey belongs to the sacred in Ka?isial K?du. The divine world of Ka?isial K?du populated by folk deities conceptualizes sacred differently from the scriptural religion and its pantheon of pan-Indian deities. This divide in the divine world becomes apparent in an aesthetic that characterizes the singing and dancing of the pey in these stories. As a response to and a manifestation of an excess it disturbs composure and does not fit into the controlled and transcendental aesthetics of N??ya??stra. The paper studies this deviant aesthetics associated with the singing and dancing of pey and its function in Ka?isial K?du through the lens of the Nietzchean category of the Dionysian.

Keywords: aesthetics, aesthetics of excess, folk deities, dionysian, Ka?isial K?du

Shakespearean and Brechtian Drama and Theatre: An Audience Response Perspective

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Vishal Joshi1 and Shakuntala Kunwar2

1Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar-246174, Uttarakhand (India), Email: joshi.vishal84@gmail.com, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1922-2677

2Professor, Department of English, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar-246174, Uttarakhand (India), Email: shakuntalarauthan@gmail.com 

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.25

Shakespearean and Brechtian Drama and Theatre: An Audience Response Perspective

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Shakespearean Dramatic theatre and Brechtian Epic theatre represent two divergent paradigms in the field of genre-drama. The plays falling under these two varying paradigms invite their readers or audience to learn to approach them by adopting a different theoretical perspective or critical stance. As per Martin Esslin “human capacities can change through time: human beings may learn to adjust themselves to new ways of perception …, and gain practice in accepting new ways of seeing both reality and art” (15). In the proposed study, the two plays chosen for comparative analyses are Hamlet by Shakespeare and Mother Courage and Her Children by Brecht: the former one centring on empathy, and the other one on alienation. Of the two paradigms discussed in the present study, in one type, admittedly, an emotional catharsis occurs and the second theoretically disclaims emotional catharsis.

Keywords: illusion, empathy, catharsis, hamartia, probability, bisociation, introjections, projection, verfremdungseffekt, alienation effect, leichtigkeit, spass, laconic language, Hegel’s dialectics.

Reconciling Locality and Globalization through Sense of Planet in Kiana Davenport’s the House of Many Gods

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Kristiawan Indriyanto

Ph.D Candidate, Doctoral Program of American Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Email: kristiawan.i@mail.ugm.ac.id. Orcid ID: 0000-0001-7827-2506

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.24

Reconciling Locality and Globalization through Sense of Planet in Kiana Davenport’s the House of Many Gods

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This study positions the House of Many Gods, a novel written by Kiana Davenport as a possible area of intersection between globalization and environmental/eco-criticism. The primacy of locality within American environmental discourse hinders the acceptance of global theory under the assumption that embracing the global will lead into the erasure of the local altogether. In her book, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet (2008) Ursula K Heise asserts that what she considers as sense of place is incomplete without considering ourselves as a part of a global ecosystem, which she considers as sense of planet. The reading of the House of Many Gods contextualizes sense of place and sense of planet through the perspective of Ana, in which she complements her adherence of Native Hawai’ian epistemology of place with a broader outlook of environmental crisis. A global outlook of perceiving environmentalism also aligns with Transnational American Studies which perceives America from an internationalist perspective. The paper concludes that sense of place and sense of planet provides a possible intersectionality of conceptualizing local discourse of place within a global outlook of environmentalism.

Keywords: Sense of place, sense of planet, Hawai’ian literature, ecocriticism

Remembering the 1998 Indonesian Sorcerers Massacre: Memory of Tragedy and Trauma in Intan Andaru’s Perempuan Bersampur Merah (Woman in Red Scarf)

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Eggy Fajar Andalas1, Hidayah Budi Qur’ani2

1Assistant Professor, Department of Indonesian Language Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, eggy@umm.ac.id, ORCID: 0000-0002-0107-7849

2Assistant Professor, Department of Indonesian Language Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, qurani@umm.ac.id, ORCID: 0000-0002-5441-9136

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.23
Remembering the 1998 Indonesian Sorcerers Massacre: Memory of Tragedy and Trauma in Intan Andaru’s Perempuan Bersampur Merah (Woman in Red Scarf)

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After the collapse of the New Order government, in the 1998-1999, hundreds of people who were considered to be sorcerers were killed, especially in Banyuwangi. In the obscurity, Intan Andaru has narrated these events into her work. Her novel, Perempuan Bersampur Merah (Woman in Red Scarf), tells massacre story form the voiceless accused sorcerer’s point of view. This article aims to discuss the representational character of the 1998 Indonesian sorcerer massacre as depicted in the work of fiction. This research uses a psycho-historical approach. The data collection technique was done by using a note-taking technique. The analysis technique is carried out by the stages of presenting data, reducing data, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that there was no authentic evidence to support the accusation that the person who was killed was actually a sorcerer. As a result, cultural trauma is an important part of the psychological suffering experienced by the victim’s family. This trauma cannot be erased because the stigmata as a descendant of a sorcerer will always be attached to the victim’s family. This novel revives the social and cultural memorial structure of the 1998 Indonesian massacre in the form of individual aesthetic mediation to activate historical memory.

Keywords: banyuwangi 1998, sorcerer, memory, tragedy, trauma

Representation of Ethnicity in Lexicographic Discourse

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Nataliia I. Melnyk1, Iryna O. Biletska2, Oksana A. Ponomarova3, Alina V. Buranova4 & Alla O. Davydenko1

1Foreign Philology Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

2Department of Foreign Languages Theory and Practice, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Uman, Ukraine

3Department of English and Methods of its Teaching, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Uman, Ukraine

4Department of Foreign Languages Methodology, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine

E-mail: nata-melnyk@uohk.com.cn

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.22
Representation of Ethnicity in Lexicographic Discourse

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In the modern world, which is characterised by migration processes, ethnic and cultural mixing, the interest of representatives of various fields of knowledge to the category of ethnicity, ethnic processes, their historical, cultural, philosophical and linguistic component is growing. In this regard, the work is devoted to studying the dynamics of representations of ethnicity in different types of discursive practices and identifying the specifics of conceptualisation of ethnicity in English-speaking society in the context of ideological, socio-economic and socio-cultural transformations of the second half of the 20th – early 21st century. The relevance of the study is due to the inclusion of the dynamics of language development and change in such areas of modern linguistics as ethnolinguistics, linguocultural studies and discourse analysis, as well as growing interest in the evolution of language, lexical structure of English and changes in the English world picture with the development of ethnic culture, the synthesis of language modifications in the context of global socio-cultural transformations. The following methods were used in the work: definition analysis; comparative analysis; quantitative analysis; analysis-discourse; hypothetical-deductive method; generalisation; systematisation. The research methods used in the article made it possible to substantiate the principles of material selection for studying the dynamics of ethnic representations in English dictionaries; to reveal the concepts of ethnic stereotype and ethnonym-nickname as ways of stereotyping; to characterise the concept of political correctness as relevant for the study of linguistic construction of ethnicity. The dynamics of the representation of ethnicity in the lexicographic discourse on the material of British dictionaries of two times cross-sections (mid-20th century and modern latest edition) in the context of socio-cultural transformations were analysed. The practical value of the work is that the obtained results contribute to a fuller understanding of the English-language picture of the world, deepen scientific ideas about the interaction of ideology, language, culture.

 

Keywords: ethnic stereotype, lexicographic discourse, ethnolinguistics, ethnonym, lexical structure of language.

Examining the Nuances of Trauma Through a Survivor’s Testimony: A Study of A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal by Manobi Bandyopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey

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Pratishi Hazarika

Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of English, Tezpur University, Assam, Email id: pratishihazarika@gmail.com, ORCID id: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-1124

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.20
Examining the Nuances of Trauma Through a Survivor’s Testimony: A Study of A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal by Manobi Bandyopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey

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The transgender community in India is a marginalized social group that lacks the basic human rights and privileges granted to the cisgender and heterosexual subjects in society. Due to their non-conforming gender and sexual identity, transgender individuals are labeled as deviant, abnormal and diseased in society that has adverse effects on their psyche, making them prone to suicidal thoughts, acute depression and anxiety. This study aims to analyze the trauma endured by transgender individuals and its never-ending effects on their psychological health, through a re-reading of Manobi Bandyopadhyay’s biography, titled, A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal (2017) by Bandyopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. It shall also explore how the trauma experienced by transgender people in society is of two folds- bodily trauma and mental trauma which demands an integrated approach, as applied in the study. The methodology of close reading of the selected text shall be combined with the framework of trauma psychology and transgender studies, to conduct the study.  The significance of this paper rests in the absence of a comprehensive literary study, in the mentioned area.

Keywords: Trauma, Transgender people, Stigma, Mental Health

Gender Discrimination in the Media of Eastern Europe: A Historical and Comparative Aspect

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Olga Khamedova1, Oksana Zhuravska2, Olena Rosinska3 & Vitaliy Gandziuk4

1Assoc. Prof., Dep. of Journalism Institute, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, o.khamedova@kubg.edu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9545-4464

2Assoc. Prof., Dep. of Journalism Institute, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, o.zhuravska@kubg.edu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4623-8933

3Assoc. Prof., Dep. of Journalism Institute, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, o.rosinska@kubg.edu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4460-0668

4Assoc. Prof., Dep. of Journalism Institute, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, v.handziuk@kubg.edu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4312-6848

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.19

Gender Discrimination in the Media of Eastern Europe: A Historical and Comparative Aspect

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The research analyzes a topical issue of gender balance in media in its historical cutoff. The authors consider imbalance regarding the gender of the key figures in publications as one of indicators of latent discrimination. The subject of the content-analysis is Globus, an illustrated magazine published in Kyiv in 1923-1935. This progressive periodical paid significant attention to the issue of female emancipation; that is why its research is also demonstrative for studying the diachrony of a gender stereotypization phenomenon. The purpose of the content analysis was to determine the qualitative indicators with respect to distribution between verbal and visual women’s and men’s images in this magazine as a material indicator of worldview stereotypization. As the research results show, Globus had extremely low rate concerning the women’s representation in text materials (15%) and illustrations (18%). Correspondingly, the ratio of women’s and men’s images in total amounts to 1:5. Moreover, a tendency to gender asymmetry in 1930’s only increased, since the quantity of men’s representations in the magazine of 1932 reached almost 90% and women’s ones decreased respectively. Thus, the comparison of women’s and men’s images already amounted to 1:7, i.d. gender disproportion grew up. The data received have been compared with the monitoring results of current media content related to the compliance with gender balance; that allowed specification and analysis of main tendencies in representation of women and men in the media discourse in the beginning of XX and XXI centuries.

Keywords: media representations, content analysis, gender balance, gender discrimination.

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