Literariness Journal Volume 1, Issue 4 — September 2026

Women, Nature and the Politics: An Ecofeminist Reading of Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green

Staying with Vulnerability: Crip Ecologies, Care, and Climate Agency in The Ones Who Stay and Fight and Delhi

Ms. Suhana Sathar A

Partition Beyond History: Affect, Memory, and the Ethics of Survival

From Coca-Colonization to Cultural Excess: Pico Iyer’s Contested Representation of India in Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East

Queer Resistance against Biopolitical Governance and Subversion of Gender Roles in Cantoras

Suspended Life and Poetics of Everyday Survival: Governmentality and Biopolitics in Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Artificial Beings as a Reflection to Humanity in Machines Like Me

The Pandemic as Narrative Space: Isolation and Self-Discovery in Dream Count

(Un)Making the Domestic Heroine: Reading Women’s Cinema in Malayalam

Narrative Constructions of Waste, Cleanliness, and Social Order: A Comparative Study of Select Children’s Picture Books

Keerthy Elza Tes Mathew & Prof. (Dr.) Sujarani Mathew

Neocolonial Ecologies and Posthuman Agency: Analyzing Indigenous Crisis and Resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s “Madhu: A Fairy-tale”

Ms. Ditipriya Das & Prof. (Dr.) Charu Mehrotra

Beyond the Brain Matrix: Mapping Ableism, Neurological Divergence, and the Poetics of Cognitive Difference in the Movie Hichki 

Ms. Susan T Sushil & Riya Renji Mathew

The Syntax of the Feed: Analysing Digital Trauma and Fragmented Subjectivity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This

Capturing the Self: Memory, Spatiality, Temporality, and the Reproduction of Power in Bramayugam

Muhammad Saleem A. M. & Dr. P. M. Abdul Sakir

Redefining Heteronormative Family Structures: Queer Aesthetics and Gender in Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue (2022)

Kavya Prasad S & Dr. Mahima Raj C

Distorted Mirrors: Body Dysmorphia as Feminist Pathology, Traumatic Memory, and Affective Protest

Down-the-Street Gods: Mythological Biographies as Humanizing Social Identities in Praveena Shivram’s Karuppu

Towards a Future of AI: Analysing the Data as the Power Centre for Identities and Their Positioning in the Selected Feminist Future Narratives

Affective Geographies and the Spatial Poetics of Exile in Siddhartha Gigoo’s A Long Season of Ashes

The Sovereign Allocation of Life: A Necropolitical Reading of Roopa Farooki’s Everything is True: A Junior Doctor’s Story of Life, Death and Grief

Adaptation as Archive: Contesting Punjab’s Social Realities

Consuming Nature: Survival, Spectacle, and Capitalist Modalities in the Survival Thriller Manjummel Boys (2024)

Health, Illness, Vulnerability and Care within Heterotopia: A Study of Select Fiction Set in Hospitals

From Archive to Algorithm: Algorithmic Postmemory in Anjali Enjeti’s The Parted Earth (2021)

Disability as a Metaphorical Tool of Resilience in Malini Chib’s One Little Finger

Reading the Unread Body: A Feminist Disability Studies Approach to Illness, Stigma, and Narrative in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey

Ottoman Odyssey: Exploring Identity, Culture and Belonging in the Magnificent Century

Negotiating Belonging: Manifestations of Alienation and Anxiety in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Drawing Dissent: Gendered Resistance and Transnational Identity in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis

Buck Became His Own Master: The Untameable Animal Instinct in Sanders’s The Call of the Wild

Tidal Ecologies: A Critical Posthumanist Reading of The Hungry Tide

Beyond the Backdrop: Space as a Site of Cultural Confrontation in S. Hareesh’s Meesha

Epistemology of the Weird: A Neurodivergent Reading of Annihilation’s Ecology

Mitigation of Migration Trauma through Culinary Traditions: An Analysis of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Seeing Beyond the Visible: Visuality, Power and Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye

The Absent Leg: Bodily Alienation and Identity Crisis in Oliver Sacks’ A Leg to Stand On

From Ritual to realization: Yajna as inner sacrifice in Katha Upanisad

Tongues of Defiance: Gender, Translation, and Counter-Archival Form in Irish and Indian Women’s Writing 

Everyday Assassinations: Structural Violence, Social Death and the Politics of the “In-Between” in Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations

The Visual Politics of Masculinity: Hegemonic Ideologies and Humourous Meaning Making in the Digital Age 

Mapping the Intersections of Mental Disorder, Trauma, Memory, and Intertextuality in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down

Mechanics of Oppression: The Transition of Suppression, Repression, and Trauma in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

A Requiem for the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, Slow Violence, and Eastern Spirituality in O. N. V. Kurup’s Poetry

Kashmiri Refugee Narratives: Displacement, Trauma, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging

War and Literature: Aggression, Trauma, and Cultural Impact

Challenging Heteronormativity: Analyzing Farhad J. Dadyburjor’s Queerly Beloved: A Love Story for All Seasons 

Gender and Identity of Sound in Malayalam Cinema

Gender in Disguise: Ideological Containment and Representation of Femme Fatale Gaze in Malayalam Cinema

The Commodified Self: Consumer Consciousness, Social Media and Self-Presentation in the Digital Age

Aushin Babu Joseph

Dramatizing Indian Culture: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Social Transformation in the plays of Asif Currimbhoy, Girish Karnad, and Mahesh Dattani

Shally & Prof. Ajeet

Asserting Selfhood: A Socio-cultural Study of Tamil Epics

Manjot Kaur & Prof. Daisy

The Power of the Milk Bond, Sacred and the Cinematic: Myth, Media, and Subaltern Realities 

Aslam P. &
Dr. O. P. Salahuddin

Native Survivance against Identity Obliteration: A Study of Sherman Alexie’s “On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City” and “Evolution”

Ann Mary Raju & Prof. (Dr) Lata Marina Varghese

Female Solidarity and the Rewriting of Women’s Roles in Amy Silver’s Romantic Comedies

Mofeed Mohammed Nasser Mohammed AL-Sairafy & Dr Appu Jacob John