Published in both print and online formats with open access, Literariness Journal is a double-blind peer-reviewed, full-text, quarterly academic journal dedicated to advancing research in English literature, literary theory, and cultural studies. It publishes original and rigorously researched essays that engage critically with literary texts, theories, movements, and genres, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to literature and culture.
The journal is dedicated to fostering intellectual exchange across global academic communities, providing a platform for both established scholars and emerging researchers. Most issues are organized around a particular thematic focus, though high-quality independent submissions are also encouraged. All submissions must be original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere.
Literariness Journal Volume 1, Issue 2 — March 2026
| Sl No | Title of the Article | Author(s) | |
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| 1 | Remoulding Algorithms of Gender: A View of Adolescence | Dr Sreepriya R | |
| 2 | Sartorial Representation of the Mukkuvar Community in Malayalam Cinema: Analysing Chemmeen (1965) and Puthiya Theerangal (2012) | Malavika Pradeep | |
| 3 | A List of Queer Possibilities: (Dis)Orientating Objects in Selected Poems of Ocean Vuong and Chen Chen | Marvin Khailalven & Ayush Bhardwaj | |
| 4 | Reimagining Monstrosity: Bakhtinian Polyphony and Feminist Mythmaking in Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind (2022) | Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan | |
| 5 | Black Bodies and Blue Histories: Exploring Embodied Trauma, Gender Anxieties and Spiritual Metanoia in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Pemi Aguda’s Ghostroots | Anagha Rajan & Dr Lekshmi R Nair | |
| 6 | Confining Madness, Liberating Freedom: Power, Madness, and Freedom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Sona John | |
| 7 | Bīnamāzī as Domestic Carcerality: Period Politics and Gendered Space in Sujata Massey’s A Murder on Malabar Hill | Muhsina Najeeb | |
| 8 | Period Stories: Menstrual Narratives and the Limits of Realism | Aradhya Maria David | |
| 9 | The Eternal Kilippattu: The Recurring Song of the Bird in Malayalam Film Songs | Aparna K & Dr Muhamed Ali E K | |
| 10 | Schizophrenic Insurgency: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Analysis of Joker (2019) | Dr Lakshmi K Babu | |
| 11 | Beyond Historical Metanarratives: Speculative Subversion in My Lady Jane | Maria Susan Sujo & Dr Jeena Ann Joseph | |
| 12 | Violence as Entertainment: The Society of the Spectacle in The Hunger Games | Kamila Gulnar Abdul Ravoof & Dr Poornima R | |
| 13 | Remembering ‘Differently’: Amnesia and the Female Body in South Indian Cinema | Hefziba Susan Jojo | |
| 14 | Wolves and Women: Rereading Angela Carter’s Wolf Trilogy from a Zoocritical Perspective | Dr Aditi Chatterjee | |
| 15 | Chronicling the Clinical: A Critical Analysis of the Memoir Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi | Krishna Priya S & Dr Appu Jacob John | |
| 16 | Parenting Under an Ableist Panopticon: A Study on Jodi Picoult’s Handle with Care and My Sister’s Keeper | Rashida Muneer Chalilakath & Dr Shanthi Vijayan | |
| 17 | Climate Collapse and Animal Resilience: Flow through the Post-anthropocentric Lens | Jismi Thanzeel V T & Dr Habeeb C | |
| 18 |
Through the Everyday of a Heritage Site: Understanding the Making of Chalai |
Gokul Krishnan G.S. | |
| 19 |
When the Goddess Menstruates: Exception versus Exclusion in the Thrippooth Festival of Chengannur Mahadeva Temple |
Haritha H. Venkitesh & Dr. Soumya Murukesh |
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| 20 | Techno-sapiens and Posthuman Intimacy in Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War | Divya Uthup & Dr. Tom Thomas | |
| 21 |
Coloniality of Waste: Foreign Policy, Toxic Exports, and India’s Ecological Futures |
Roshima Uday & Dr. Abubakkar K.K. |
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| 22 | The Absent Mother: Narrativising Disabled Motherhood in Malayalam Films | Dr. Indu P. | |
| 23 | Permaculture Havens: A Literary and Eco-medial Dopamine Boost Enchanting Towards a Promised Homeland for Ecological Minds | Mohammed Jabir K K & Dr. K Rizwana Sultana | |
| 24 |
Reading the ‘Exotic’: Algorithmic Visibility and Representation of Digital Exoticism of Northeast India on Social Media |
Shreya Manna & Dr. Doreswamy | |
| 25 |
Quietly Mad: Mad Time and Emotional Flatness in Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto |
Dr. M. S. Gayathri Devi | |
| 26 | Disrupting Ableism: Performance Poetry and the Disabled | Divya Rajeev | |
| 27 | Legacies of Resilience: Vulnerability and Resistance in Arundhati Roy’s Memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me | Nimmy Mariam Jacob & Dr. Neethu Tessa Baby | |
| 28 | From Hatchery to Hospital: Brave New World and the Rise of Techno-Eugenics in Contemporary India | Ruma Khatun | |
| 29 | Lexical and Register Configurations of Reflective Meaning in AI-Generated and Romantic Poetry | Ritika Banerjee | |
| 30 | Fractured and Forged: Representations of Bipolarity and Identity Reconstruction in Select Indian Mental Health Narratives | Surya C.S. & Dr. B. J. Geetha | |
| 31 | Beyond Binaries Queer Narratives of Shikhandi and Ardhanarishvara | Dr. S. Sandhiya | |
| 32 | Demounting Motherhood: Construing Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother | Dr. Vidhya Viswanathan | |
| 33 | Heterotopias of Crisis and Deviance: Compounds and Pleeblands as Spaces of Biopolitical Governance in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy | Abdul Shafeek C. H. & Dr. Sajitha M. A. | |
| 34 | Data Diasporas: Transnational Belonging in Networked Worlds | C S Prabha | |
| 35 | Disability as Emasculation: Bodily Deformation, Stigma, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Shankar’s I | Ms. Francia P.A & Dr. Suja Mathew | |
| 36 |
Migration as a Narrative Trope: A Critical Study of Kerala Jews in Select Works |
Jeslin Mery John & Prof. (Dr) Asha Susan Jacob |
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| 37 |
Racio-Geographic Masculinities: Beard and Moustache beyond Popularities |
Dr Najda A |
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| 38 |
A Care-Based Approach to Borders and Nations: Toward a More Compassionate World |
Dr Purnima Das |
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| 39 |
Fraught with Fear: A Cultural Inquiry into Midlife Crisis, Life Course Pessimism, and Identity in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Harishma A Gireesh & Dr B. Spoorthi |
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| 40 | Adolescence as Analytical Lens: Patriarchal Conditioning, Emotional Detachment, and the Crisis of Empathy |
Anjitha Tom |
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| 41 | From Spaces of Capital to Oikieon: Survivor-centred Environmental Justice Narrative in Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K. Janu |
Midhun Mohan & Prof. A. Selvam |
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| 42 | Redefining Disability: Manalazham as a Critique of Eco–Social Resistance of the Differently Abled |
Dr Jayalekshmi J |
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| 43 | State Violence: Turbulent Past in Han Kang’s Human Acts and Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us |
Praveena A M P & Dr Shantha Naik N |
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| 44 | AI Authorship, Co-Creation, and Expanded Paratexts |
Dr Rizia Begum Laskar |
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| 45 | Paediatric Perspectives in The Truth According to Blue: Juvenile Fiction’s Contributions to Patient-Centred Healthcare |
Leatitia Joshy & Dr Arshad Ahammad A. |
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| 46 | Roots That Remember: Intergenerational Trauma, Biopolitics of Care, and Posthuman Kinship in Coco (2017) and Encanto (2021) |
Srijani Chattopadhyay |
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| 47 | Religion as a Site of Identity Formation: Reconfiguring the Orientalist Stereotypes in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator |
Fida Lubana A. & Dr. A. I. Vilayathullah |
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| 48 | Narratives of the State and Scalpel: Doctor Memoirs Across Borders — A Comparative Study of I Am a Government Doctor and The Postmortem of Postmortem by Dr. Kumar Nanaware, and The Checklist Manifesto and Better by Dr. Atul Gawande |
Shamly P & Dr Habeeb C |
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| 49 | Playing with the Anthropocene: Human–Animal–Technological Entanglement in the Video Game Stray |
Navaneetha Suresh |
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| 50 | Negotiating Norms: Performative Sexuality, Precedential Influences, and Power Politics in Select Malayalam Short Stories |
Sheniya Jose P |
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| 51 | Imagining Climate Governance: Narrative, Polyphony, and Policy Futures in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) |
Ms. Noble A. Paliath |
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| 52 | Between Care and Control: Biopolitical Practice in Sunitha Krishnan’s I am What I am |
Kavya T |
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| 53 | The Smart Home’s Dark Secret: Unpacking Gendered Algorithmic Bias and Control Through M3GAN and Afraid |
Anju Krishnan L |
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| 54 | Comparative Myth Retellings of Ahalya and Medusa: Rewriting Cursed Women |
Harshita Shukla |
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| 55 | From Distress to Solitude: Female Loneliness and Emotional Labour in the Malayalam Film Eko |
Anagha Vinod |
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| 56 | Mnemonic Spatial Negotiations in The Legends of Khasak and On the Banks of River Mayyazhi: A Study of Post-Colonial Place-Memory |
Rini Joy |
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| 57 | Representation of Gender, Sexuality and Changing Relationships: A Study of Film Bulbbul by Anvita Dutt |
Sufiya Ansari |
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| 58 | From Postmodern Skepticism to Selective Credulity: Active Epistemic Resistance in Digital Democracies |
Ankitha K |
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| 59 | Regaining Body Image Positivity and Self-Acceptance: A Study on Social Gaze in Laura Dockrill’s Big Bones |
Vaishnavi C. S. |
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| 60 | Shields of Invisibility: Metaphor, Silence, and Lesbian Desire in Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf” (The Quilt) and Suniti Namjoshi’s The Conversations of Cow |
Aditi Ghosh & Dr. Mandakini Baruah |
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| 61 | Wasted Ecologies: Anthropogenic Degradation and Vulnerable Communities in Akkineni Kutumbarao’s Softly Dies a Lake |
Sk Tousif Hasan & Dr. Rohan Hassan |
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| 62 | Losing the Gift: Ecological Grief and Cultural Trauma in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green |
Saranya SV & Dr. Ramana Devika |
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| 63 | The Goddess as Archive: Feminine Survival and Cryonics in Goddess in the Machine |
Noufia S.N |
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| 64 | Transcending Social Borders: Unveiling the Past in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron |
Noushaba P & Dr Zainul Abid Kotta |
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| 65 |
Redefining Identity: Resistance to Beauty Standards in Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman” |
Jitty P. Johnson |
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| 66 | Difficulties of English Handwriting Learning: A Linguistic Innovation in Literature |
Mallikarjuna V & Prof. Shantha Naik N |
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| 67 | Subverting Patriarchy: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Nyasha’s Rebellion in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions |
Mallikarjuna H & Dr Chand Basha M |
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| 68 | Enacting Female Agency: Subaltern Resistance in Adimamakka |
Salini P |
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| 69 | The Epic Wait: A Comparative Study of Culture and Women in Classical Literature |
Ms. Lavanaya Singh |
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| 70 | The Politics of Forgetting: Memory Suppression and Neoliberal Surveillance in Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police |
Swati |
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| 71 | The Shades Behind the Warlight: Representation of Women in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight |
Kavitha G |
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| 72 | Transmogrification as a Phenomenon of Intersections in the Post-millennial Indian Graphic Novel: A Study of Corridor and All Quiet in Vikaspuri |
Deepak Dhananjayan E & Dr K. Reshmi |
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| 73 | Kafka: Existential Collapse and Breakdown of Selfhood | Ms Navneet Kaur & Dr Rameez Ahmad Bhat | |
| 74 | Regaining Self-Identity: Disability and Cultural Narratives in Select Indian Autobiographies | Devadathan E V | |
| 75 | Cinema’s New Normal: How Certain South Indian Films Adapted to Pandemic-Induced Changes | Hema M | |
| 76 | Vulnerability in Visibility: Queer Adolescents and the Politics of Authenticity | Richik Ghosal | |
| 77 | Frail Bodies and Fierce Minds: Female Resilience and the Politics of Sickness in Austen’s Women | Rushda Elahi | |
| 78 | Prompting the Author: Barthes, Foucault, and the Question of Authorship in AI-generated English Poetry | Mohammad Bilal | |
| 79 | Economy of Silence: Financial Control and Domestic Power in the Selected Short Stories of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp |
Adnan Mustafa | |
| 80 | Who Speaks for the Climate Child? Child-Centred Narratives and Ecological Vulnerability in Contemporary Eco-Cinema | Ankita Baruah | |
| 81 | Bullying as Capillary Power: Disciplinary Spaces in Fish in a Tree | Ms. K.M. Shahnaz & Dr Mufeeda T | |
| 82 | Broken Mirrors and Headless Nations: Diasporic Schizophrenia in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shame | Dr Neetu Kumari Gupta | |
| 83 | Contemporary Influencer Culture: Privileged Politics of The American Tradwives of Social Media | Ritusree Gangopadhyay & Nishtha | |
| 84 | Drowsy Dispossession: Exploring Solastalgia through the ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Metaphor in K.R. Meera’s Kalachi | Sumi TP & Dr Jahfar Sadiq P | |
| 85 | Regulated Appetites and Disposable Lives: Food, Varna, and Hierarchy in Mickey 17 | Sibtain Ahmed Khan | |
| 86 | The Portable Homeland: The Space in Between Belonging and Becoming | Aarushi Datta | |
| 87 | Intersecting Chains: A Comparative Study of the Double Oppression and Psychological Transformation of Women Characters in the Select Novels of Perumal Murugan and Sudha Murty | Sneha S & Dr Nancy Prasanna Joseph | |
| 88 | Deferred Reading(s): A Critical Discourse Analysis of English Language Textbooks (2011-2025) | Hamda Hanan & Dr. Mufeeda T | |
| 89 | Teaching Ethics through Literature: A Study of Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Open It” | Afsal M & Prof. (Dr.) K Rizwana Sultana | |
| 90 | Negativism and Feminist Rage: Reimagining Female Villainy in Hedda Gabler, Gone Girl, and How to Kill Your Family | Abhirami S. S. | |
| 91 | Investigating Chernobyl: The Miniseries as Environmental Cinema and Climate Narrative | Dr. Nidhee Meshram Bhowate | |
| 92 | Adapting Ice-Candy-Man into 1947: Earth: Partition, Gender, and Cinematic Transformation | Dr. Meenakshi Kulkarni | |
| 93 | Hysteria, Depression, and Control: Medicalizing Women’s Emotions in Literature | Aathira Prakash | |
| 94 | Autobiography as a Form of Resistance: A Search into I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey | Dr Dhanya S | |
| 95 | Lives Held in Suspension: Biopolitics and Sexual Governance in The Handmaid’s Tale | Sharika P. V. | |
| 96 | Stability and Fecundity in the New Maayapuram of P. Surendran’s Maayapuraanam | Aswathy S | |
| 97 | From Statute to Household: Legal Consciousness and Domestic Authority in Mother Mary Comes to Me | Udba Fatima | |
| 98 | Ableism and Psychic Distress: Rethinking Neurodiversity and Disability in The Bell Jar | Farhina Khatun | |
| 99 | Reimagining the Earth: Exploring Nonhuman Sentience and Ecological Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain | Dr Piyush Kumar |
Journal Information
| Title | Literariness Journal | ||
| Frequency | Quarterly (March, June, September and December) | ||
| P-ISSN | 3108-1614 | E-ISSN | 3108-172X |
| Chief Editor & Publisher | Nasrullah Mambrol | ||
| Language | English | Subjects | Language, Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies |
| Starting Year | 2025 | editor@literarinessjournal.org | |
| Mobile | (+91) 9048050200 | ||
| Website | LiterarinessJournal.org | ||
| Publisher Address | Nasrullah Mambrol Mambrol House Vanimal Kozhikode, Kerala 673506 Pin Email: Editor@LiterarinessJournal.org |
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