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 All submissions must be original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere.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 3 — June 2026
https://doi.org/10.67147/literariness.v1i3
| Sl No | Title of the Article | Author(s) | |
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| 1 | Beyond the Tinsel and the Kewpie: Feminism, Domesticity, and the Politics of Gender in Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Dr. T. Marx | |
| 2 | Beyond the Human: Catastrophe and Ethical Transformation in Parable of the Sower and Animal’s People | Donna Akbari | |
| 3 | “Shaadi License Nahin Hai”: Chiraiya and the Anatomy of Conjugal Coercion | Dr. Nisha Thomji Varghese | |
| 4 | The Discursive Configurations of Body Positivity: A Reading of Select Popular Cultural Texts | Dr. Surya K | |
| 5 | The Porous Body: A Baradian Reading of Ontological Reconfiguration in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing | Dr. Liz Mary Antony | |
| 6 | From Theatricality to Digital Spectacle: A Rasa-Theoretical Analysis of Jean Genet’s The Balcony in the Age of AI-Mediated Literary Studies | Dr. Prathibha P | |
| 7 | Migrant Subjectivities in the Age of Connectivity: A Study of Digital Diaspora in the Select Works of Benyamin and M. Mukundan | Dr. Rince Raju | |
| 8 | The Diegetic Pursuit of Threat by Delineating Altered Identities in Takopī’s Original Sin and The Summer Hikaru Died | Sherline Modak | |
| 9 | The Burden of Remembering: Exploring Trauma, Memory and the Past in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep | Biyamol George & Dr. Lekshmi R Nair |
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| 10 | Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: The Graphic Tale of a Queer Icarian Father | Dr. Devishree Mohapatra | |
| 11 | Beyond the Clinic’s Promise: Trauma, Bioethics, and Iatrogenic Harm in Graphic Medicine Memoirs | Mehjebin Farsana & Dr. Reshmi S. |
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| 12 | Sonic Rebellion: Reclaiming Music as Defiance in Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day | Rakhi R S & Dr. Harpreet Kaur Vohra |
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| 13 | Love’s Ontology in a Liminal Space: Reconfiguring Intimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Shareefa Beegam PP | |
| 14 | The Politics of Resource Relations: Articulating Identity and Autonomy in C K Januvinte Jeevitha Kathakal | Dr. Sageera MP | |
| 15 | Diaspora, Migration, and Border Narratives in the Melody Sphere of the Indian Subcontinent | Desai Shreya Rajeshbhai & Prof. (Dr.) Bharti Dave |
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| 16 | A Study of the History of Maternal Deprivation and the Serial Killer Archetype | Maryam Salim & Dr. J.S. Jahangir |
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| 17 | Articulating the Feminine: A Study of Female Voice and Its Evolution in Malayalam Radio Drama | Arathi Lal B. & Dr. T.K. Rajendran |
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| 18 |
Women, Water and the Fluid Self: A Hydrofeminist Reading of Christo Tomy’s Ullozhukku |
Parvathi S | |
| 19 | Between Desire and Guilt: A Psychoanalytical, Feminist and Existential Examination of Madhavi Kutty’s “December” | Anto Hemanth A & Dr. Saranya VM |
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| 20 | Visualizing Hierarchies, Voicing the Subaltern: Caste, Testimony, and Dalit Representation across History and Media in Srividya Natarajan’s A Gardener in the Wasteland, Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand’s Bhimayana, and Ambedkar’s Waiting for a Visa | Souradipa Datta & Kousiki Patra |
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| 21 | Beyond the Visual: The Narrative Role of Sound in Sookshamadarshini | Husna Ameen | |
| 22 | Disability, Trauma, and Intersectionality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things | Anju Unny & Dr. Liss Marie Das |
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| 23 | Hydrocolonial Entanglements and Fluid Modernities: Reconfiguring Cultural Formations through Blue Humanities in South Asian Literature | Anirban Sen | |
| 24 | Anatomy of an Erasure: Postmemory and the Embodied Archive in We Do Not Part | Alphin Chacko & Ria Sebastian |
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| 25 | Identity: Some Recent Conceptual Reflexions | Dr. Jaswinder Singh | |
| 26 | Mobility and Cultural Configurations in Palestinian Novels and Memoirs: A Cliffordian Approach | Labeeba M & Dr. Anusree R S |
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| 27 | The Paradox of the Feminine: Re-reading the Hitopadesa | Anjana Rebecca Roy & Dr. Neethu Mary Tomy |
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| 28 | The Effects of Climate Change and the Anthropocene: A Critical Inquiry | Dhivyaharshana B.G & Dr. B. Pavithra |
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| 29 | Language and Perception in Arrival: A Posthuman Inquiry | Riya P & Dr. Jeena Ann Joseph |
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| 30 | From Physical to Psychic Doubling: The Reimagining of Gothic Doubling | Drishti Anil & Aswathy Das K V |
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| 31 | Experiencing Disability in an Ableist Society: Identity Formation, Social Violence, and Satirical Resistance in Lynn Manning’s Shoot! | Aswathi N | |
| 32 | The Inherited Voice: AI, Authorship, and the Irony of Machine Recognition | Parthi Chakraborty | |
| 33 | Eloquent Absences: The Dramaturgy of Unspeakability and Traumatic Memory in Jon Fosse’s Plays | Anish | |
| 34 | “The Marsh as Home”: Sensing Topophilia in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing | Dr. Nisha Mathew & Induja P Pani |
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| 35 | Decentering the Human: Non-Human Agency and Post-Anthropocentrism in Gaia | Niveditha R & Dr. Aysha Swapna K A |
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| 36 | Negotiating Faith and Agency: Rethinking Muslim Femininity in Feminichi Fathima | VP Razlin & Dr. Soumya Mathew Kutty |
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| 37 | Unclaimed Wounds: Gendered Memory, Silence, and the Poetics of Trauma in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age | Ruksana M K | |
| 38 | The Dynamics of Power: a Foucauldian Reading of Spatial Partitioning and Social Organization in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Sreelakshmi M Nair & Ancy Cyriac |
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| 39 | Labour, Childhood, and Eco-Precarity in Mari Selvaraj’s Vaazhai | Swathi Satheesh & Dr. Chithra P S |
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| 40 | Schizoanalysis and Carnophallogocentrism in Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds | Samiha Tabasum | |
| 41 | From Passive Flora to Storied Matter: Plant Agency in Selected Speculative Fiction | Reshma R & Dr. Hima S. Madhu |
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| 42 | Breaking Stereotypes Through the Female Gaze: An Analysis of 22FK and Sara’s | Anooja George K & Dr. Arya Gopi |
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| 43 | From Object to Author: Narrative Voice, Divinity, and Discursive Power in Divakaruni’s Mythological Rewritings | Ananya & Dr. Gulab Singh |
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| 44 | Buried Pulses: Gendered Counter-Memories in K. R. Meera’s The Vein of Memory and Qabar | Nafila Zubair | |
| 45 | Marginal Voices from the Cliff: Youth, Surveillance and Defiance in Sabin Iqbal’s Novel The Cliffhangers | Dr. Chinnu Chandran P. | |
| 46 | The Body at the Table: Food, Shame, and Diasporic Femininity in Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family | Shahada KP & Dr. Ubaid. V. P. C |
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| 47 | Textual Representation, Marginality and Making of the “Morias”: Social stratification and Muslim Identity in South Asia | Zubeen Sultana | |
| 48 | Beyond the Autonomous Self: A Postcolonial Critique of Existentialism in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction | Yogita | |
| 49 | Life in the Ghetto: Navigating Discrimination, Stereotypes and Black Resistance in Angie Thomas’s On the Come Up | Hiba Nabiha A. & Dr. Abdul Latheef Vennakkadan |
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| 50 | Internalized Horror Phenomenon: Disillusionment, Trauma Response to Super-Belief in The Silent Companions | Snehashis Saha | |
| 51 | Surveillance, Discipline, and Survival in Never Fall Down: A Foucauldian Reading of Panoptic Power | Jayanth Anto Vijay & Abarna K |
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| 52 | A Settler Colonialist Reading of Firekeeper’s Daughter and Crooked Hallelujah | Krishna Menon & Dr. Sruti Ramachandran |
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| 53 | Social Ascent through Education: An Examination of Pariyan’s Journey in Pariyerum Perumal | Abarna K & Dr. Saranya VM |
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| 54 | Remembering as Becoming: Memory and Belonging in Daniel Olivas’s Chicano Frankenstein | Arsha & Dr. Faisal.P | |
| 55 | Radical Reframing of (Dis)Ability: Deconstructing Autistic Stereotypes and Ableist Normativity in A Boy Called Po | Anagha J & Anu Francis | |
| 56 | Affective Landscapes and Indigenous Ecologies: Rereading Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth through Tinai | Dr. Sonia James | |
| 57 | Sites of Resistance and Change: Mapping Contours of Indigenous Feminism | Dr. Sreekala.K | |
| 58 | Entertainification and Celebritization by The News Media in K.R Meera’s The Hangwoman | Arunjith Sasidhar | |
| 59 | Cooking Up Clues: Culinary Sleuths and Crime Detection in Ovidia Yu’s Aunty Lee’s Delights and Ajay Chowdhury’s The Cook | Drishya K & Dr. Harpreet Kaur Vohra |
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| 60 | Portraits of Depression through the Lens of Health Humanities: An Analysis of Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician’s Struggle with Mental Illness by Kyle Bradford Jones | Lizmol Joseph & Dr. Minu Mary Mathew |
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| 61 | Cultural Enrichment and Integration: Exploring the Knanaya Community’s Contribution to Kasaragod’s Diversity | Anupriya P B & Dr. Anju K. N |
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| 62 | From Wounds to Healing: Positive Relational Dynamics in Nimna Vijay’s To My Dearest Self | SiljaSukumar | |
| 63 | Stirring the Pot: Exploring the Intersection of Food, Space and Gender in Neeraj Ghaywan’s Juice | Alpana | |
| 64 | Ecohorror and Displacement in Anoushka Khan’s Still Life | Arnab Chatterjee | |
| 65 | “Not Religious but Spiritual”: Transnational Hindutva, New Age Gurus and Post Secularism | Dr. Srividya S. | |
| 66 | The Prefigurations of Cultural Ecofeminism in the Book of Ruth | Christeena Treesa Antony | |
| 67 | Feminist Resistance and the Politics of Identity in Marjan Kamali’s The Lion Women of Tehran | Dr. Teena T Elizabeth | |
| 68 | Reclaiming Silenced Mythological Voices: Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Affective Representation in Sudha Murty’s The Daughter from a Wishing Tree | B.Pooja & Dr. C. Arun | |
| 69 | The Price of Progress: Interest Convergence and the Medical-Industrial Complex in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad | G. Gnana Snowlin Asmi & Dr. S. Veeralakshmi |
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| 70 | The Domestic Panopticon: Interrogating the Third Wave of Neuro-cinematic subjectivity and Epistemic Injustice in Bougainvillea and Kishkindha Kaandam | Khadeejath Farhana T A | |
| 71 | Reimagining the Deep: Aquatic Archetypes, Hybrid Identities, and Oceanic Ethics in Contemporary Cinema and Beyond | Ann Mary Anil | |
| 72 | Shaping the Collective Cultural Consciousness Through Music Videos: A Case Study on Music Videos of Hyderabad City | Chenna Chakravarthy | |
| 73 |
Enduring Echoes: Preserving Knanaya Heritage through Purathana Pattukal |
Tina Jose | |
| 74 |
Desire on the Move: Mapping the Performative and Semiotic Expressions of Same-Sex Intimacy in Prathyush Parasuraman’s “Two Bi Two” |
Abhirami S. & |
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| 75 |
Archiving the Outcast: Memory Activism in Mikey Walsh’s Gypsy Boy |
Priyanka Prasannan |
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| 76 |
The New Monster-Woman Centrality of the Transformative ‘Monster’ in Chlorine, The Vegetarian, and Nightbitch |
Adrita Choudhury & |
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| 77 |
Femgore and Medico-Culture Critique Grotesque Bodies, Experimentation, and Resistance in Contemporary North American Literature |
Anjana & Indu A S |
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| 78 |
A Quantum Exploration of Morality in the Malayalam Movie Kishkindha Kaandam |
Salwa K.M & |
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| 79 |
“Then I remembered”: Memory and Recognition in Ciaran Carson’s Still Life |
Aswin Vijayan |
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| 80 |
The Hermeneutics of Disease: Interpretation, Ethics, and the Literary Imagination |
Vismaya Vijay |
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| 81 |
Ecojustice Unbound: Rethinking Capitalism and Ecology through Ecofeminism and Social Identity |
Snigdha Singh |
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| 82 |
Between Agency and Aesthetics Women’s Bodies in Contemporary Ritual Culture |
Vidya K |
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| 83 |
The Uncanny Nexus Food, Cooking and Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost Eye |
Dr. Lisa John Mundackal |
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| 84 |
Crippling and Crawling: Motherhood and Pregnant Bodies in Body-Horror Films |
Shimi Shajan A |
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| 85 |
The Paradox of Hope in a World of Despair: Waiting for Godot |
Dr. Phani Kiran & |
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| 86 |
Curating the Mango in Cultural Space: The Indian Spectrum |
Ananya Jodha & |
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| 87 |
Indigeneity, Environmental Commodification, and Decoloniality in The Race to Save the Amur Falcon |
Dr. Mridula Kashyap |
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| 88 |
The Politics of Flesh: Mapping Somatic Individuality and Biopolitical Control in Alpha by T.D. Ramakrishnan |
Anjitha S Kurup |
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| 89 |
Drowning the Domestic: Film Ullozhukku as a Journey of Self-discovery and Identity |
Dr. Manju P.B |
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| 90 |
Aquapelagic Subalterns and the Hydrocolonial Imagination in Select Malayalam Narratives |
Farisha VM |
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| 91 |
Ecological Resistance and Feminine Sovereignty: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Tishani Doshi’s Small Days and Nights |
S. Prathiba & |
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| 92 |
Voices of Tradition: Reflection of Moral Values in the Select Indian Oral Narratives |
Swati |
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| 93 |
Transhumanism and the Beyond: Futuristic Post-Climate Change Societies in Select Movies |
Reshma P K |
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| 94 |
Cognitive and Socio-economic Development: A Case Study of Warli Art |
Syeda Fatima Raza |
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| 95 |
Menstruation, Stigma, and Feminist Resistance |
Dr. Latha S |
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| 96 |
The Laughing Medusa: Representation of Monstrosity in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbul |
Priyanka Panwar |
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| 97 |
Unfolding the Transgender Labyrinth in Mason Deaver’s I Wish You All the Best |
Tessy Thomas & |
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| 98 |
Culinary Marginalization and the Politics of Food: Memory, Identity, and Resistance |
Parvathi T S |
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| 99 |
Beyond Sensibility: Shame, Affect, and Emotional Regulation in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice |
Dr. Rekha Karim & |
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| 100 |
Constructing the Feminine in Kerala Cyberspace: An Analytical Study of Female Representation in Internet Memes |
Asalatha C.K. |
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| 101 |
Archiving Em: Care, Counter-Archive and the Mad Mother in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom |
Arunav Das & |
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| 102 |
Fluid Bodies, Fluid Ecologies: A Hydrofeminist Analysis of Perumazhakalam and Ullozhukku |
Sreelekha Chandrasekharan |
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| 103 |
Myth, Masculinity, and Moral Failure in Sport Literature Re-reading The Natural |
E. F. Livinston & |
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| 104 |
Dignity, Discipline, and the Collapse of Self: Performing Masculinity in The Remains of the Day |
Milcah R |
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| 105 |
Consuming the Body Fat Studies, Gender, and the Politics of Appetite in Asako Yuzuki’s Butter |
Dr. Sreeja G. |
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| 106 |
Where Memory Settles Like Silt: Fluid Subjectivities in Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing—A Blue Humanities Reading |
Pooja Krishnan R |
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| 107 |
Yarning in Bethimaran: Exploring Au/orality as Epistemology in Indigenous Life-writing |
Amruthashree R. & |
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| 108 |
Treating the Space, Place, and Gaze: In Conversation with Kiran Desai |
Vidyasree B & |
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| 109 |
A Folkloristic Reading of Indigenous Literatures of Northeast India |
Rhea Rejith & |
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| 110 |
Early Regional Archives and Gendered Spaces of Illness Narrative: A Reading of Saraswathiyamma’s Iswarante Kayyil |
Dr. Sujatha A. V. |
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| 111 |
The Travelling Body in Spiritual Encounter: A Geocritical Analysis of Backer’s From MTV to Mecca and Hofmann’s Journey to Islam |
Basila Maisoon & |
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| 112 |
What are Women’s Things? Feminist Materiality in Ladies’ Coupé |
Malavika K. Nambiar |
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| 113 |
Narrating Endometriosis and Medical Neglect in What’s Wrong? Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams |
Chellapriya S & |
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| 114 |
Mourning a Child: Trauma, Gender, and Marital Breakdown in Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter” |
Dr. Archana V. |
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| 115 |
Visualizing Resilience: Disability, Trauma, and Agency in Sriram Jagannath’s Mai: A Graphic Novel (2018) |
Noble A. Paliath |
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| 116 |
Body as a Site of Entanglement: Being and Becoming in Whitman’s “Song of Myself” |
Debosree Manna |
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| 117 |
Narrating Estrangement: Exile, Memory, and the Politics of Home in The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (2016) |
Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan |
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| 118 |
Redefining Neurological Deficit: A Comparative Reading of Memoirs of an ADHD Mind: God Was a Genius in the Way He Made Me and You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! |
Aiswarya S |
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| 119 |
Blood and Burden Menstrual Stigma and Intellectual Disability in Aparna Singh’s “Death Wish” |
Gowri Sreenivas & |
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| 120 |
Subaltern Strategic Essentialism in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
Elroy Anthony Savio Rebello |
Journal Information
| Title | Literariness Journal | ||
| Frequency | Quarterly (March, June, September and December) | ||
| P-ISSN | 3108-1614 | E-ISSN | 3108-172X |
| Crossref DOI Prefix: 10.67147 | |||
| Chief Editor & Publisher | Nasrullah Mambrol | ||
| Language | English | Subjects | Language, Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies |
| Starting Year | 2025 | editor@literarinessjournal.org | |
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| Website | LiterarinessJournal.org | ||
| Publisher Address | Nasrullah Mambrol Mambrol House Vanimal Kozhikode, Kerala 673506 Pin Email: Editor@LiterarinessJournal.org |
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