Contemporary Literary Review India

7-14

Authors: Dr Shiv Govind Puri

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a diasporic writer who migrated to America from West Bengal. Though settled down in the new land, she sees the country India as her native village where she had spent her early days of life. This is the connection of the writer to her native land. She visits her place Kolkata as a place of her olden roots with her American husband. Divakaruni in her novel The Palace of Illusions talks of the social conditioning of a woman who descends her positioning in the cultural paradigm. She also talks of the significance of cultural scripts, which provokes a woman to negotiate her with space created through undergoing agency. The agency helps the society to have the desired result. Under the paradigm of discourse literary assignments correct the agenda from time to time. Through her text, Divakaruni tends to establish that the migration in the life of a woman is very significant as it liberates her from tradition as well as scripts. The new land’s experience generates fluid of renegotiation which can be accessible only after abolishing the olden, traditional space. Jasbir Jain posits the condition of a woman who wants to be diasporic, “wishes to renegotiate both the cultures simultaneously primarily because it is not possible to relate to the new reality without altering inherited constructs. You simply cannot relocate them as they are (Jasbir Jain Writing Women Across Cultures, 141).

31-45

Authors: Tanvi Gupta

A civil rights activist who fought against hypocrisy and inequity, Audre Lorde (February, 1934 – November, 1992), was an African-Caribbean American writer, or as she identified herself, “a black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. In her book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), which she describes as “…an unfolding of my life and loves” and a Biomythography, i.e. an amalgamation of history, myth, and biography, Lorde subtly placed her own story in light of everything that was essentially wrong with America in the fifties (Lorde 190).

50-69

Authors: Deepa Bhandaru

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74-79

Authors: Syed Kazmi Ali Kazmi

The story is about an internal and physical suffering of a cancer patient. His life is a bundle of misery and he wishes to leave this life for peace. How the protagonist tries to find meanings in his life by indulging himself in dreams where everything is more real for him. To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.

89-96

Authors: Collins Justine Peter

This story narrates the protagonist's (Romer) idea of parenthood and his own excitement of becoming a parent revealed through various instances, conversations with characters who he encounters on a single day. To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.

105-106

Authors: Saronik Bosu

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109

Authors: Dr. Divya S.P. Das

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117-118

Authors: Kate Linden

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121-125

Authors: Daniel de Cullá

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131-136

Authors: Tatjana Debeljacki

Book Review on A House Made Of Glass To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.