This chapter discusses the dynamics of marginal space in the postcolonial city. It looks at the
way marginalized humans utilize the urban space and resist in signicant ways the …

This thesis attempts to understand, through a study of postcolonial Indian novels, the nature
and character of Indian (post) colonial modernity. Modernity is understood as the social …

After its reappearance on the literary scope, world literature has become such an inevitable
paradigm in contemporary reflections, that, as expressed by Theo D'Haen (2012),“no other …

In their theory of class formation and social revolution, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were
scathing about the lumpenproletariat, condemning it as anti-revolutionary, morally bankrupt …

This paper looks into the ways in which eminent Bengali writer Nabarun Bhattacharya used
reading as a tool of resistance. Examining his novels, short stories, essays and short journal …

Nabarun Bhattacharya is often hailed as the “rebel” writer and two of his larger fictional
works, Herbert and Kangal Malshat (War Cry of Beggars) have been adapted for screen and …

The contemporary Bengali literary scene, traditionally leftleaning, has been influenced by
larger background shifts, such as the post-colonial critique of the Indian state and society …

Finite strips, composed of a periodic stacking of infinite quasiperiodic Fibonacci chains, have
been investigated in terms of their electronic properties. The system is described by a tight …

The Naxalbari movement sparked two kinds of immediate literary representation: disillusion
and despair by an urban protagonist and a historically specific, analytical, aesthetically …

This paper is divided into two realms. The first portion aims at addressing the post-humanist
developments that continually assay to evolve whilst ambivalently opining about the …