REGD. NO. 26466  ISSN  2277-4521

LITERARY VOICE

A Bi-Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal

Volume I Number 1 April 2012

Contents

Frustration in Love in Shiv K. Kumar's The Bone's Prayer / 5

Basavaraj Naikar

Mahashweta Devi's Bitter Soil:A Voice of Resistance / 9

Bhagyashree S. Varma

Articulating Protest Against Mass Hysteria and Senseless / 20

Violence in Train to Pakistan and A Debt to Pay

Pushp Lata

From Roots to Routes: Story of Indo-Mauritius Diaspora / 32

Charu Sharma

Girish Karnad's Wedding Album: The Mythical Discourse of Culture / 42

Alpna Saini

Gender-bias or gender-blender?: Hanif Kureishi's Perception / 47 of Gender in The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album

Aindrilla Guin

Magic Realism and Postcolonialism: A Study of Gabriel / 55

Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sumedha Bhandari

Grains of Rebellion in Ngugiwa Thiong's A Grain of Wheat / 63

Jasmine Anand

Redefining Feminism in Indian Context: / 71

A Study of Anita Desai's Novels

Supriya Bhandari

Reconfiguring the Gender Equation:A Postfeminist Reading / 82

of Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time

Ashoo Toor

Amrita Pritam's The Revenue Stamp: An Assessment / 90

Hargunjot Kaur

Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence: A Reconsideration / 98

T. Sasikanth Reddy

Integrating Literature and Language in EFL/ESL Classroom / 104

Harpreet Singh

Review Essays:

Colonial Conflict in Basavaraj Naikar's A Dreamer of Freedom / 115

P.V. Laxmi Prasad

Poles Apart on the Same Bed: A Review / 121

Vinod Kumar Sinha

Khushwant Singh, The Sunset Club / 124

Atul Acharya