ISSN92349-4948
Volume929Issue939July92015
The Context
Journal9of9Language,9Literary9U9Cultural9Studies
Chief Editor Kumar Wani
Issue Editor Shamenaz Bano
MAGNUS9PUBLISHING
THE CONTEXT
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ISSN 2349-4948
Volume 2
Issue 3
July 2015
Chief Editor
Kumar Wani
Issue Editor
Shamenaz Bano
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Contents
Black Humour in Timeri N. Murari’s The Taliban Cricket Club
J Pamela
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-62.pdf
Text, Context and Approaches: A Literary Perspective of World Englishes
Manisha Sinha
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-63.pdf
Narcopolis: The City of Possession and Dispossession
Sugndha Sinha
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-64.pdf
The Miserable Lives of women in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Rekha Jaiswal
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Text and Meaning in Umberto Eco’s The Open Work
Dr P Prayer Elmo Raj
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-66.pdf
Identity And Ethnic Assertion in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mukta Singh
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Forging Identity in the Matrix of Community: Testimony of Dalit Autobiographies
Dr Vandana Pathak
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-68.pdf
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Black Autobiography as Rising Inner Self in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Dr Syed Aleemuddin
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-69.pdf
Can Gender Hierarchy Explain The Conditions For Production Of Gender?
Sanjhee Gianchandani
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-70.pdf
The Craftsman and the Machine Age
Dr Kiran Arora
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-71.pdf
Women Voices from War-Infected Iraq: Daisy Al-Amir & Najde Sadig Al-Ali
Dr Shamenaz Bano
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-72.pdf
Shakespeare in Bollywood: Adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays in Vishal Bhardwaj’s
Maqbool & Omkara
Aliya Rafat
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Capitalist Invasion and Ecological Crisis in The Artist of Disappearance
Navin Kumar Yadav
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-74.pdf
Technological Reproduction of Literature: A Study of Flarf Poetry
Nitika Gulati
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-75.pdf
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Taslima Nasreen as a Third World Feminist Writer: A Review
Abhishek Chowdhari
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-76.pdf
Transparency or Transference?: The Case of Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’
Ayesha Abrar
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The Concept of Time in the Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan
Tejaswini Patil
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-78.pdf
Issues of Adaptation and Acquisition of Cultural and Ethnic Identities in Bharati
Mukherjee’s The Middleman and Other Stories
Dr Ashok Kadam
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-79.pdf
Historical Development and Evolutionary Changes of English Language
Tukaram Bobade
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-80.pdf
Cultural Reconstruction: Desirable Daughters and The Tree Bride
Anupama Sharma
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-81.pdf
Ismat Chughtai: An Awakener for Women’s Gender Issues
Bushra Wadood
URL - http://www.magnuspublishing.com/thecontext/2349-4948-82.pdf
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Book Reviews
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