Special Issue on Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature

Editor: Prof. Maria-Ana Tupan
Alba Iulia University, Romania

I. EDITORIAL

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Editorial Introduction: Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature
Maria-Ana Tupan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.00 | First published: December 28, 2023
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II. INTERSECTIONALITIES

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Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection: Disclosing Rohner’s Subtheories in Peter Carey’s The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
B. Parvathavardhini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.01 | First published: October 25, 2023
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Challenging the Episteme with Storytelling: Learning without Limits the Native Way
Virender Pal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.02 | First published: November 06, 2023
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The Self-made Victim in the Crosshairs of East-West Confrontation: Ravi’s Odyssey in O V Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak
Jerome Vadackel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.05 | First published: 31 December 2023
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III. SELF AND OTHER

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Identity versus Identity Crisis: An Analysis of Erikson’s Epigenetic Principle in Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune
P. Sarojini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.04 | First published: 26 December 2023
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From Third Space to Transnational: A Study of Alter Identities in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Athira Prakash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.03 | First published: November 26, 2023
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IV. THE CLASSED, GENDERED AND RACED BODY

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Poetics of Self in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Postcolonial Bildungsroman Study
Nitisha Seoda & Devendra Kumar Sharma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.06 | First published: 27 December 2023
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Optimist vs Pessimist: Indulging and Contextualizing Martin Seligman’s Learned Optimism in “Once Again” and “Trisanku” by C.S. Lakshmi
M. Aarthi Priya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.07 | First published: 25 December, 2023
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Portrayal of Patriarchal Subjugation of Women in the Selected Works of Anita Nair
Divyani Sharma & Swati Chauhan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.08 | First published: 29 December, 2023
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V. NATION AND NARRATION

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Colonialism, Diasporic Politics and Alternate History in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Tania Bansal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.09 | First published: 25 December, 2023
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Exploring Black Writers’ Literary Strategies for Interdependence and Global Solidarity
Ananya Buragohain & Lakshminath Kagyung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.10 | First published: 27 December, 2023
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Lives of Indian Tribes
Nihal Zainab & H. Sofia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.11 | First published: 25 December, 2023
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The Narrative Construction of National Identity in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People
Aparajita Dutta Hazarika & Smita Devi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.12 | First published: 27 December, 2023
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VI. THE IMAGINARY SELF

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Troping Identity in Arkady Martine’s Space Opera: From Historical Realism to Quantum Anthropomorphization
Maria-Ana Tupan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.13 | First published: 25 December, 2023
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Victimhood Self-construal, Irony of Tears and Melancholy amid Wealth: Critical Assessment of Select Literary and Visual Metaphors on the Niger Delta Environmental Despoilment
Thank-God I. Igwenagu, Alphonsus C. Ugwu, Norbert O. Eze & Emeka Aniago
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.14 | First published: 30 December, 2023
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Construction of Ideal Self in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
V. R. Amirthavarshini & R. Bhuvaneswari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.15 | First published: 30 December, 2023
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Interrogating the Discourse of Racism and Identity Crisis in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man
Somy Manzoor & Balkar Singh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n5.16 | First published: 31 December, 2023
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