Volume 13, Number 2, April-June, 2021

Special Articles on Health Humanities

Edited by Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan

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Drawing Monsters with Emil Ferris and Lynda Barry: An Exploration of the Drawing Process as Part of Graphic Medicine
Susan M. Squier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.01. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Care-focused Feminism, Care Ethics, and Feminine Artistry in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House
Hyojeong Byun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.02. First published, May 11, 2021.
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‘Eye of the Beholder’: Psychiatric Medical Reasoning, Narrative Humility, and Graphic Medicine
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Arya Suresh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.03. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Pain, Partum and Prayer: The Dis-ease of Motherhood in Early Modern English Literature
Namrata Chaturvedi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.04. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Parrhesia and Clinical Practice: A Case Study of Dr. Esdaile’s Mesmeric Hospital in Hooghly
Punnya Rajendran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.05. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Health and Healing: Retention of the Popularity of Ashtavaidya Tradition during the Colonial Regime
Maya Vinai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.06. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Beauplaisir as a Disabled Libertine in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina; or Love in a Maze
Difeng Chueh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.07. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Dis/embodied Body: Representation of Plague in Thomas Nashe’s “A Litany in Time of Plague” and Thomas Dekker’s London Looke Backe
Khandakar Shahin Ahmed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.08. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Teaching Philippine Literature and Illness: Finding Cure in Humanities
John Paolo Sarce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.09. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Epilepsy, Forgetting, and Convalescence in Ondaatje’s Warlight
Jan Gresil S. Kahambing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.10. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Poetics, Self-Understanding and Health
Richard Deming, Justin Clemens & Valery Vino
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.11. First published, May 11, 2021.
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Special Articles on “Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond”

Edited by Tariq Khan & Priyanka Tripathi

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Editorial Introduction
Tariq Khan & Priyanka Tripathi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.12. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Orality, Literacy and Translation
Panchanan Mohanty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.13. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Analysing Text for Translation: Genesis of Stylistic Categories for Comparing Language Pairs
Sushant Kumar Mishra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.14. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Translation of Anzaldúa’s book Borderlands in Indian language(s): A challenge in the Indian context
Shilpi Gupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.15. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Affix-based Distractor Generation for Tamil Multiple Choice Questions using Neural Word Embedding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.16. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Going Online! Use and Effectiveness of Online Mode of Instruction in the Teaching of English Language
Amal Tom and Nagendra Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.17. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Of Dictionaries and Dialectics: Locating the Vernacular and the Making of Modern Malayalam
Amritha Koiloth Ramath & Shashikantha Koudur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.18. First published, May 12, 2021.
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The Word ‘Noor’: Tracing a Long Journey through Translation and Adaptation from Classical Arabic to Contemporary Punjabi/Hindi Pop Songs
Azhar Uddin Sahaji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.19. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Interrogating Strategies of Justice and Racial Politics: A Post-colonial Reading of Abir Mukherjee’s A Rising Man
Febin Vijay and Priyanka Tripathi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.20. First published, May 12, 2021.
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Laughing with and about Death? Werner Bergengruen’s Philosophical and Literary Approaches
Albrecht Classen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.21. First published, May 30, 2021.
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Creating an Alternate Canon: Achebe to Obioma
Virender Pal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.22. First published, May 30, 2021.
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Codifying the Oral Traditions, Resisting the Colonial Machinery: A Study of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller
Babita Devi, Divyajyoti Singh & Satinder Kumar Verma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.23. First published, May 30, 2021.
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Defining Hindustani Raga Musicians and Their Relative Intra-Statuses: An Analytical Study
Pragya Pyasi and Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.24. First published, June 06, 2021.
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Consciously eco-conscious: An eco-conscious re-reading of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Moon Mountain as young adult literature
Narendiran S and Dr. Bhuvaneswari R
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.25. First published, June 15, 2021.
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The Bidayuh People of Sarawak Borneo: Ritual and Ceremonies
Awang Azman Awang Pawi & Chali Ungang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.26. First published, June 15, 2021.
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The Dislocations and Transgressions in Bhajju Shyam’s The London Jungle Book (2004)
Shikha Singh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.27. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Locating Women in the Naxalbari Movement: A Story of Resistance and Fabrication of the Individual Female Identity
Pritha Sarkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.28. First published, June 15, 2021.
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The Era of Environmental Derangement: Witnessing Climate Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Nupur Pancholi & Sanjit Kumar Mishra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.29. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Critiquing 21st Century Creative Violence:Tagore’s Concord (Milan) and Harmony (Samanjaysya) Imagining “One World”
Ayanita Banerjee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.30. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970)
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.31. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Performance Space of the Digital Performer/Reader inside Andy Campbell and Judi Alston’s Digital Fiction the Nightingale’s Playground
Gitanjali Roy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.32. First published, June 15, 2021.
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The Uneasy Gaze – Appearing for Interviews to get Married – An Empirical Investigation into the Pre-marital Arranged Marriage Negotiations in Urban Kolkata
Sucharita Sen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.33. First published, June 15, 2021.
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A Stylistic Investigation of the Act of Murder in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing
Ujjal Jeet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.34. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Conversations through Web 2.0 tools: Nurturing 21st century Values in the ESL Classroom
Kshema Jose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.35. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Victimhood, Health Challenges and Violent Restiveness in Blood and Oil: Music, Characterization and Colours as Metaphors
Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu et al
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.36. First published, June 15, 2021.
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Chachnama Discourse: The Dichotomy of Islamic Origins in South Asia
Priyanka Chaudhary & Sara Rathore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.36A. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Hasya: Towards a Poetics of the Comic
Jagannath Basu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.37. First published, June 26, 2021.
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“He made me fall at the feet of a woman”: Masculine Anxieties and Dysfunctional Romance in Tamil Cult Film Subramaniyapuram (2008)
Divya A
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.38. First published, June 26, 2021.
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The Processes of Dehumanization in the Encounter with the Other: An Exploratory Study During the Lynching of African Americans in the United States, 1882 – 1968
Giovanni B. Corvino
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.39. First published, June 26, 2021.
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The Politics of Gender Hybrid Representation of Delhi
Shruti Rawal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.40. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Reframing Reproduction in Vernacular Periodicals: A Study of Contraception in Late Colonial Bengal
Ayana Bhattacharya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.41. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Infidelity to True Story and Novel: Locating the Auteur in Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan
Akaitab Mukherjee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.42. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Revisioning Subalternity: A critical study of Ramayana through Mandavi and Urmila
Aditi Tiwari & Priyanka Chaudhary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.43. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Tactics of Survival: Social Media, Alternative Discourses, and the Rise of Trans Narratives
Khushboo Sharma & Arun Dev Pareek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.44. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Literature in New Media: A Comparative Study of Literary Affordances of Lance Olsen’s “10:01” in Traditional and Digital Medium
R.Ramya & Dr.Rukmini.S
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.45. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Revisiting the “Inhabited Space” of English Country House in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger
Srijani Chowdhury & Lata Dubey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.46. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Agency and Self Expression: Fan Writing as Life Writing
Renu Elizabeth Abraham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.47. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Social Memory: From Oblivion or Construction to Cultural Trauma
Bayan Zh. Smagambet et al
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.48. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Empire Style as a Model of the Embodiment of Patriarchal and Orthodox Ideas in European Culture and Music of the Restoration Era
Olha V. Muravska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.49. First published, June 26, 2021.
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Direct, Indirect and Conditional Indirect Effects of Communication and Career Anxiety on Perceived Stress during Interviews in University Students – A PLS SEM Model

Irum Alvi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.50. First published, June 30, 2021.
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Spatializing the Musicking Of an Expressive Urban Imagination: A Trans-Cultural Evaluation of the Early-Modern Rock Music of Bengal

Shankhadeep Chattopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.51. First published, June 30, 2021.
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The ten kinds of conditionals and Chrysippus’ criterion

Miguel López-Astorga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.52. First published, June 30, 2021.
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Critiquing Child characters as Heroes, Villains, and Victims in Ru Freeman’s On Sal Mal Lane
Sneha Choudhary & Priyanka Chaudhary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.54. First published, June 30, 2021.
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