Amitayu Chakraborty

Durgapur Women's College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India · English

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His novels and plays are fraught with his anxiety, resistance, and defiance concerning Gikuyu ethnici...

The article problematises dominant discourses on ‘indigeneity’ (within the context of India) through an analysis of the novel The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (2014) written by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (1983—). Those discourses are predicated on colonial and neocolonial ethnic stereotypes: at times ‘the indigenous’ denotes a reluctant subject...

The paper explores Ghassan Kanafani's short story "The Child Goes to the Camp" as a trauma narrative. A brief historical account of the Arab-Zionist conflict, critical employment of Jakobson's metaphor/metonymy and Foucault's heterotopia along with a detailed study of violence in the narrative augment the analysis presented in the paper in an aim t...

This article explores how Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Marxist novel Petals of Blood addresses the issues of nationalism and ethnicity within the matrix of class. In so doing, the article also foregrounds the nuances of the polemical constructs concerning class, ethnicity and nationalism. Thus, a close textual analysis is substantiated with discussions on t...

This paper focuses on the essentiality of incorporating ethics as a course in engineering education. It claims that an amalgamation of ethical awareness and engineering skills can enable the future engineers to strengthen the relation between technology and society.

From a gender-sensitive perspective, this article explores how Ngugi wa Thiong'o's play The Black Hermit interacts with the dominant nationalist and ethnicist discourses operative in Kenya in the wake of the newly achieved political independence. The characters of Thoni and Nyobi gain centrality in the analysis. Despite serving the nation in accord...

This paper tries to suggest certain ways in which the two traditionally segregated fields - literary studies and communication skills - can somewhat be integrated. The text with which the paper deals is Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess,” a poem that lends itself to both literary studies and the study of communication skills. The object of the art...

This article concerns itself with an African novel in English, Wizard of the Crow (2006), written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-), an eminent contemporary Kenyan postcolonialist writer. It studies the ways in which two of the characters in Ngugi's novel-Kamiti and Nyawira-discursively resist the hegemony of the nation-state of Aburiria, a fictitious A...