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 | |
| 100 | Haunted by the Unlived Past: Destabilized Identity and Postmemory in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz | Hiral Hitesh | |
| 101 | The Metabolism of Empire: Ecophobia and Nonhuman Agency in Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Hungry Stones” | Ratan Mahali | |
| 102 | The Shadow Within: A Jungian Psychoanalytic Study in Edgar Alan Poe’s The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart | Nandhini. E.S |