Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies (Jun 2024)
Editorial
Abstract
The present issue (vol. 4, no. 1) of the transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of five research articles and two book reviews. Sharanya DG’s article on the historiographic metafiction of Don DeLillo’s White Noise undertakes a textual and formal analysis of the novel in order to explore its representation of the inward resistance directed against the dominant discourses within the contemporary American society. The paper on suicide narratives in literature by Rajasmita Singha examines the impact of societal power dynamics on the female individual which often drive them to the point of submission or martyrdom in conformity to the dictates of convention. Anisur Rahman, in his paper on Haruki Murakami’s The Rat Series, reveals the implicit confrontation between the power of everyday and the capitalism-induced coercion, and the former’s endeavour to subvert the latter through certain acts that attest the profundity of the mundane. Livia Tinglianhoi’s article explores the thematic components of the female bildungsroman like the quest for identity, female psyche, and the social–cultural factors behind the representation of the character of Madhabi from the eponymous Meiteilon novel by Lamabam Kamal. Shipra Mondal presents her article on the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain analysed through the Marxist perspectives on women’s emancipation and social progress. Jayashree Haloi undertakes a review of Preetinicha Barman’s poetry collection, My Body Floating with Hyacinths, and reveals the diversity of sensibilities explored by the poet in her attempt to depict the intricacies of the human mind. The second review by Paddaja Roy, on Sightlines: View Points on Susheel Kumar Sharma’s The Door is Half Open edited by Danielle Hanson, briefly outlines the broad gamut of opinions provided by noted academicians on the diverse areas of social and philosophical engagement reflected in the poetic works of Susheel Kumar Sharma.
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