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Book Review: Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English by Jieun Kiaer Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Yi Xuan Jia
The book examines the history and reasons for the development of the translingual process, its two-way influence on culture and the lexicon of both parties combined with clear interpretations of linguistic terms. The first chapter lays a theoretical foundation for the following two parts, which respectively introduce two formation pathways of the words. The author strives to raise awareness of translation
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Women Trespassing Borders: Imaginaries of Cosmopolitanism from Below in Mia Alvar’s In the Country Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Carlos M. Piocos
Mobility has been historically tied to conceptions of cosmopolitanism, bringing forward imaginaries of belonging-in-the-world and going beyond the narrow limits of parochial allegiances into embracing virtues of openness as global citizens shaped by the experience crossing borders and encounter with the Other. Despite dominant ideas about cosmopolitans as elite itinerants of middle-class intellectuals
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Revisiting theatre of the minoritarian in neoliberalism: The Embodied Memories in Denise Uyehara’s and Dan Kwong’s Auto-performances Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Io Chun KONG
In a neoliberal multicultural landscape, minoritarian artists tend to, deploying various forms of self-media or virtual platforms, create their artistic spaces for their identitarian performances. While self-media has been more and more entrepreneurially dominant, the aura of theatrical performance of the self seems to be now obsolete. Moreover, in view of neoliberalism as an increasing hegemony that
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Introduction to Antiquarian Chinese Book Collections in Contemporary Macao Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Chon Chit TANG
This essay briefly discusses the historical development of the society of Macao, the book collection systems and categories adopted within Macao, major characteristics of antiquarian Chinese books in Macao, and their relationship with the culture of Macao.
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Book Review: Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic: from the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject by Chloé Germaine Buckley Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Zhao Yifan
Children’s literature has long intertwined with Gothic motifs, yet contrasting with the profound Gothic inheritance of children’s literature, the relevant research remains to be a relatively new direction, which has gained increasing popularity only in recent years. As the newest monograph in the field, Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic: from the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject brings out an exciting
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English in the Philippines from the Perspective of Linguistic Imperialism Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Jie Zeng,Tian Yang
This essay analyses English linguistic imperialism (Phillipson, 1992, 46) in the Philippines and identifies the features of linguistic neo-imperialism in the current era. The study rethinks and investigates how English linguistic imperialism plays a dual role in promoting and destroying the Filipino linguistic ecology. The present situation of English imperialism analyzed in this essay shows that the
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Pop Song Translations by Rolando Tinio as Script and Subversion of the Marcos Regime Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Niccolo Rocamora Vitug
Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature Rolando Tinio was well-known for his translations. Though attention is rightfully given to the theatrical works he translated into Filipino, he is also known to have translated songs. One of the enduring sets of song translations that he made are recorded in the album “Celeste,” rendered by the singer and actress Celeste Legaspi. This album was
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From Private Eye to Public “I”: The Chinese Filipinos in Charlson Ong’s Hard-Boiled Fiction Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Joseph Ching Velasco
Charlson Ong’s Blue Angel, White Shadow (2010) is a hard-boiled fiction that revolves around the issues of crime, corruption, and death in a postcolonial Southeast Asian state. Predominantly dark, gloomy, and mysterious, the mood of the narrative establishes a strongly morose reading experience. The narrative world portrayed in the novel is simultaneously sorrowful and somber. Binondo, the historical
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Autopoetics, Market Competence, and the Transnational Author Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Maria Gabriela P. Martin
Although materialist analyses have critiqued the institutionalization of postcolonial studies and its emergence in global capitalism, only few have addressed the role of creative writing in standardizing migrant novelistic production to what Mark McGurl has designated as ‘program fiction’ whose trademark is the practice of “involuted self-reference”. In filling this gap, this paper looks into Gina
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Rethinking, Narrating, Consuming Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Jeremy De Chavez
As this special issue would not have been possible without the generosity of certain individuals during these most trying times, this modest introduction must necessarily begin with gratitude. My co-editor, Yue Zhang, and I would like to express our sincerest thanks to the tireless and gracious people behind Rupkatha. It is because of their vision and efforts that Rupkatha has become a truly global
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Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Christian Jil R. Benitez
Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through the notion of bagay, nominated here as a thing whose materiality is intuited to be appropriately determinable
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Foreignized Translation of Onomatopoeia in The Last Lover Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Minhui Xu,Tingting Chen
The onomatopoeia in literary works frequently provokes translation problems and no consensus has been reached by translators. This study aims to explore the translation of onomatopoeia between Chinese and English, two drastically different languages, with a case of the translation of Can Xue’s novel The Last Lover by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen. A detailed textual analysis has detected three major translation
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Precarity and Performativity in Post-Fordist Japanese Workplace: A Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Jaseel P,Rashmi Gaur
The socio-economic phenomenon of post-Fordism strengthened the growing Japanese economy since the 1970s. However, the economic recession in the 1990s led to the birth of the precariat in Japan. A country known for permanent employment and long-term stability was replaced by policies that enabled a new class of temporary workers. These vulnerable part-time employees, also called freeters, are victims
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Book Review: Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Xi Li,Jie Zeng
It is no doubt that we are living in an increasingly digitalized world. Seemingly ubiquitous, digitalization has significantly influenced our way of life and thinking. The rapid development and widespread application of digital technology has also stimulated the growth of scholarship. Amongst them, digital humanities is a relatively new discipline that lies at the intersection of computer technology
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Book Review: Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives edited by Olga Castro and Emek Ergun Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 John Chi Chon FONG
Currently, there are hardly any works that explicitly claim the political title “feminist” or “activist” while fully exploring feminist translation. Without necessarily embracing and recognizing the transgressive or reactionary processes of translation in feminist movements and activisms, existing collections generally explore the “connections between gender and translation or women and translation”
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Book Review Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form by King-Kok Cheung Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Windy Xiao Xue
Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form is a compelling model in the transnational comparative study, which examines the consciousness and aesthetics of Chinese American literature by throwing off shackles of language, culture and literary traditions.
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Apostol’s Creed: Unveiling the Political Fictions of Colonialism and Nation in the Diasporic Novel Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Marikit Tara Alto Uychoco
Gina Apostol is a Philippine-American writer whose novel, Insurrecto, gives important insights into the political fictions of colonialism and the nation-state. Using postmodern readings of metafiction and historiographic metafiction, as well as postcolonial readings of hybridity and postcolonial doubles, this paper will unearth the political fictions that were used by the United States in rationalizing
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Skinned Performance: Female Body Horror in Joko Anwar’s Impetigore Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Anton Sutandio
This article discusses the 2019 Indonesian horror film, Impetigore (Perempuan Tanah Jahanam) directed by Joko Anwar. In 2021, Impetigore became the first Indonesian horror film to represent the country at the Academy Awards. This article focuses on the film’s mystification of the female body, which points towards gender relations. This research utilizes the concept of body horror, particularly relating
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The Teleserye Story: Three Periods of the Evolution of the Filipino TV Soap Opera Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Louie Jon A. Sanchez
The essay chronicles the history of the teleserye or the Filipino TV soap opera, one of today’s transnational televisual products making waves in different parts of the globe. It covers three periods—the period of transition from radio to TV (1962 to 1986), the period of competition (1986-2000), and the period of transformation (2000-present). Traversing through 60 years of the form’s enduring presence
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Which tongue? The Imported Colonial Standard or Motherland Vernacular? Exploring “Death” as the Birth of Postcolonial Malaysia in Muthammal Palanisamy’s Funeral Chant Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Kavitha Ganesan
This article examines “death” in a funeral chant set in the plantation estates of Malaysia, and written in English and Tamil, as a metaphor for the birth of the nation. It explores how the death of communal linguistic elements, both in orality and symbolic references, lead to the deconstruction of motherland identity markers which are then replaced by the reconstruction of diasporic identities that
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Traversing Paths/Pasts: Places of Filipino Philosophy Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Hazel T. Biana
Place is a vital framework of human experience and is essential to the configuration of experience. It is more than the mere geography or arrangement of things in a particular spatial location. As a concept and not merely as a specific instance, place moulds human experience and contributes to the understanding of oneself and the world. Philosophers have long tackled the unravelling of these significant
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Modern Dance as an American Alternative to Classical Ballet Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Tatiana Portnova
The choreographic art of the United States developed in a new direction and was looking for new forms corresponding to the trends of the modern era in many ways. By the beginning of the 20th century, the classical ballet of the USA rooted in Russian choreographic culture had experienced the lack of the means of expression that could reflect a new range of themes, images, philosophical and artistic
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Historical Hermeneutics of Musical Styles Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Olena M. Markova,Daria V. Androsova,Olha V. Muravska,Liliia V. Nieicheva,Iryna M. Vlasenko
The relevance of the study of the historical hermeneutics of musical styles is determined by the need to find a philosophical basis for changing the cultural paradigm and the desire to return classical canons to musical art in particular. The aim of the work is to analyse the characteristic features of the interpretation of musical styles in accordance with the principles of historical hermeneutics
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Impact of Digital Technologies on the Development of Modern Film Production and Television Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Zoya Alforova,Serhii Marchenko,Halyna Kot,Alla Medvedieva,Oksana Moussienko
The popularity of streaming services has been steadily growing over the past 5 years, and the number of subscribers is increasing. This study was conducted to find out how the popularisation of streaming services affects filmmaking. The history of cinema is inextricably linked with the development of technology. It should be noted that each new page in the history of the film industry began with the
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Modern Linguistic Technologies: Strategy for Teaching Translation Studies Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Bilous O,Mishchenko A,Datska T,Ivanenko N,Kit L,Piankovska I,Vereshchak Y
How often students use IT resources is a key factor in the acquisition of skills associated to the new technologies. Strategies aimed at increasing student autonomy need to be developed and should offer resources that encourage them to make use of computing tools in class hours. The analysis of the modern linguistic technologies, concerning intellectual language processing necessary for the creation
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Contemporary Art in Applied Dimensions: A Reflective Review of Art as Therapeutic Process Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Oscar López
A common perception about contemporary art is the perception that it excludes a majority of people as being its legitimate viewers or judges, by virtue of the fact that it contains exclusive or encrypted messages. A small, privileged group of experts grant value, acceptance and endow public popularity of such works for the market and media. In this research we seek to provide an insight into a cluster
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A Kaleidoscopic Gaze of India through Julio Barrenechea’s oeuvre Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Mala Shikha,Ranjeeva Ranjan
Latin American intellectuals have included India in their imagination since the advent of Modernism, a turn-of-the-century movement in the early 20th century. Nevertheless, the idea of India in Latin American imagination has been primarily mediated through a rather fixed European lens. Within the body of Latin American scholarly encounters, the works of Julio Barrenechea are worth mentioning. They
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The Voice and the Gaze as ‘objet petit a’ Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Utsav Banerjee
Repression of the Real is a function of the coming-into-being of the Symbolic Order. That which is repressed resurfaces in the Symbolic, thereby threatening its order. What resurfaces is the non-repressible remainder, an excess that can neither be conceptualized nor can be eliminated. This remainder of the Real is what Lacan refers to as objet petit a or simply objet a. Objet is French for object,
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Sexual Revictimization: Reflections from Contemporary Feminism Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Leyla Torres-Bravo
This article reviews the concept of revictimization taking into consideration several interdisciplinary perspectives. Based on this premise, we analyze how contemporary feminism expands on violence against women. After the said analysis, we explore recent studies on sexual revictimization to study how feminism has reflected and intervened in society and academia to provide greater visibility to the
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Digital Dose of Didactics: Reinforcing Patriarchy through Moral Stories on YouTube Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Gopika Sankar U.
Should girls get a formal education? Should women earn? And who should handle the money they earn, if at all? Can a woman’s personality be tied to learning and earning? These questions may be easily overlooked in the 21st century, when women have forayed into almost all possible careers. However, these and more questions related to women’s education, employment and empowerment find clear answers in
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Exploring the Effects of Blended Learning using WhatsApp on Language Learners’ Lexical Competence Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Divya Jyot Kaur,Niraja Saraswat,Irum Alvi
In the wake of COVID-19, online learning has achieved new dimensions and affected all fields of education. As such, one of the emerging fields of ELT is Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). The proposed study adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors influencing students’ behavioral intention towards WhatsApp for enhancing lexical competence. Three
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Master Students’ Perceptions of Blended Learning in the Process of Studying English during COVID 19 Pandemic in Ukraine Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Vita Bezliudna,Iryna Shcherban,Olena Kolomiyets,Volodymyr Mykolaiko,Roman Bezliudnyi
The academic year 2020/2021 in higher education institutions in Ukraine began under the conditions of deteriorating epidemiological situation caused by the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Students’ training was recommended to be carried out in the form of distance learning or blended learning. This research aims to analyse Master students’ perceptions of blended learning in the process of studying English
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Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By: The Ecolinguistics of Tholkappiyam Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 V Shri Vaishali,S. Rukmini
The term “ecolinguistics” is relatively a recent discussion with Eliar Haugen (1972) bringing up the concept of “The ecology of Language”. Since then, various methods and approaches to the field have been suggested to study the language-ecology interaction, primarily from the west. As a result, ecolinguistics is conceived as a new-born western discipline. However, Ecolinguistics, as the term suggests
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Application of Video Based Learning and other digital materials for online classes in Japan Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Adam L. Miller
The paper aims to examine the use of multimedia and Video Based Learning (VBL) in classes in Japanese universities, which may have moved from face-to-face to online platforms. It will also attempt to investigate if there are any tangible benefits to these materials/platforms being used, and if their continued use (after classes return to the classroom) may be advantageous to teachers or their students
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A Survey of Using YouTube as Supplementary Material with University English Language Learners in Vietnam: A Replication Study Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Pham Minh Huy,John R. Baker,Nhi Khanh Tran
There is a growing body of international literature that has shown positive student perceptions of using YouTube as a source of supplementary teaching and learning material. The literature further shows that YouTube use in Vietnamese educational settings is growing. However, empirical investigations in this region are lacking. As such, the question arises whether international studies’ results may
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English Speaking Skill and Indian Undergraduate ESL Learners: Interleaving or Block Practice? Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sujata Kakoti,Sarat Kumar Doley
Recent studies showed that compared to practicing language skills in A stepwise manner over a period known as block practice, mixing the units of learning, and making them less predictable by presenting them randomly to the language learners, known as interleaving, may prove to be a more effective approach to language teaching (Finkbeiner&Nicol, 2003; Schneider et al., 1998, 2002; Miles, 2014; Nakata
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Evolution of Concept “Black” in the US Media Discourse Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Tatiana Melnichuk,Natalia Saburova
Media discourse is an effective tool for projecting and shaping the public perception of a certain idea or image. The article focuses on the linguistic and semantic representation of the concept “Black” in the American media discourse with a particular attention to how the concept representation has evolved from the 1990s to 2010s. The study employed corpus methodology (keyness, frequency, concordances)
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The Paradigm of Transmediation: An analytical reading of the dynamics of comic strip translation with reference to select Nonte Fonte panels Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Archita Gupta
The present study focuses on the translation of a pure Bengali vernacular strip Nonte Fonte in English and to colour and its reception across the Bengali reading and speaking populace especially of Tripura, a North Eastern state of which the researcher is a part. At the same time this paper also highlights the way in which an apparently innocent comic strip such as Nonte Fonte showcases and disseminates
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Examining the Shifting Paradigms of Bhakti and Sanskrit Literature through Devotional Poetry of Jayadeva and Dadu Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Aditi Swami,Manju Dhariwal
The wave of the Bhakti movement significantly affected India for over a period of twelve centuries. Considering that it left inerasable impressions on the history and culture of the land, this research paper argues that what only imbibed the feeling of pure devotion also became a tool in the hands of those who were desirous of radical religious, political and social changes. To prove this, the paper
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Inclusive learning strategies to enhance reading skill among the students with reading disability: An Occupation and Participation Approach to Reading Intervention (OPARI) in the rural Indian classroom Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 D. Annuncy Vinoliya,R. Joseph Ponniah
Reading is a challenging task for reading disability for which they need comprehensive strategies like sensory and neurocognitive requirements. With this notion, the article aims to find, the appropriate pedagogies and clinical practices used for intervening the reading disability in Indian public schools. To examine, qualitative interviews were conducted with ten high school teachers and four special
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Learning Styles of Saudi ESP Students Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Saleem Mohd Nasim,Syeda Mujeeba
Explorations in learning styles have proved the significance of the ways students approach, assimilate, and process information. Students’ perceptions and their organization influence the quality of language learning and guide them towards autonomy, too. This study attempts to identify the preferred perceptual learning styles of 86 Saudi English for Specific Purposes (ESP) female students in the Preparatory
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D. H. Lawrence’s Travel Writing: Concept of Nudity and Sexuality with a Difference Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Abhik Mukherjee
In that he spent most of his life outside Britain, D. H. Lawrence often seems the least British of the British Modernists. His interest in and willingness to be influenced by Italy, Sicily, the American Southwest, Mexico and Australia can be easily explored in his travel books. Whereas his novels are too didactic in nature, his philosophies get naturally matured as he travels and they are expressed
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Lost in Translation: Culture-bound Lexical Items in English Subtitles of the Rap Songs by Indian Rapper ‘Badshah’ in Bollywood Movies from 2016-2021 Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Ritika Sinha
Subtitling, a subfield of translation studies has witnessed a recent upsurge in India. The rise of subtitling services can be attributed to the fact that the number of viewers from outside the country is increasing phenomenally, thanks to the global streaming platforms. Subtitling is an art; it involves translation of the language of the video to another language with an objective to retain the temper
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From Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side to Rituparno Ghosh’s Shubho Muharat: Film Authorship and Transcultural Adaptation Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Akaitab Mukherjee
In her book A Theory of Adaptation Linda Hutcheon uses the term “transcultural adaptation” to illustrate different context in which literary or other cultural texts are adapted. This relocation of text through adaptation often adds multiple interpretations or alters textual politics. Hutcheon further argues that transcultural adaptation can transform the text in unpredictable direction. The paper seeks
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Optical Versus Cognitive Perspective: Study of Indian Folk Paintings Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Sunil Lohar
Is painting space fundamentally perspectival? In the European Renaissance (14th to the 17th century), the painting space was thought of as having an interior of perspective where one could place an object. It took many years after the Renaissance for European art to come out of this optical or geometrical perspective and realise that the space of painting is fundamentally non-perspectival. Historically
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Decoding the Impact of the Srirama Panchali on Baranagar Temples Facades: The Driving Force behind Terracotta Artisans’ Narrativization of Ramayana Events Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Bikas Karmakar
Valmiki Ramayana is one of the most popular, universally read, and widely circulated literary works. The poets of different languages in India ornamented Valmiki’s Sanskrit Ramayana with the vibrancy of their own indigenous languages and cultures. A significant number of such versions trace their roots to Bengal. The epic was first translated into the Bengali language by the great poet Krittibas Ojha
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Embroidery and Textiles: A Novel Perspective on Women Artists’ Art Practice Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Sunanda Rani,Dong Jining,Dhaneshwar Shah
The manuscript focuses on the autobiographical artistic practice of women artists and feminist expression in visual art, particularly those women artists who use embroidery and textiles as mediums, techniques, processes, styles, subjects, and themes. Women artists often use a variety of unique materials and techniques to create artwork which are primarily related to them and show a feminist identity
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Effect of Egyptian Culture on the Design of Jewelry (Cultural Design Based on Ancient Egyptian Patterns) Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Eman Ramadan,YuWu
We are now living in an era in which modern media and advanced technology, including satellites, satellite channels, and the information network, are intensifying, all of which are working to dissolve cultural subjectivity and remove popular legacies to replace them with Western cultural values ??and behavior patterns. Hence, the Egyptian researcher sees the necessity of reviving contemporary inspired
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Locating an efficacy of the humane time in Ray’s Agantuk: a travel beyond the object Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Richik Banerjee
The ontology of time and space has always been a subject of materialist prospectus bearing a halo effect of ‘modernity’ and ‘progress’. The enquiry into the sign of modern is a mechanical category of production where substantial copies of ‘progress’ have religiously been equated with a break from the past. This breaking away from the centre (soul) is, of course, associated with a desire for the non-native
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Tyrannous Minds and Tamed Bodies: The Curious Case of Irene Adler from Canon to Screen Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Debanjali Roy,Tanmoy Putatunda
Appearing in the singular short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, the character of Irene Adler has been adapted and reconstructed in subsequent literary and visual media. Twenty-first century screen adaptations have swivelled upon postfeminist re-appropriations of the character and overt sexualisation of the ‘body’, thereby engaging in reassessment of
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Ideological Reconfigurations: Privacy, Voyeurism and Form in Recent Malayalam Cinema Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 B. Abhijith
This paper traces a particular moment in the recent history of Malayalam Cinema when a shift in the representation of the private sphere was attempted. In the period after 2010, a set of new Malayalam films carried a shift in terms of aesthetics and narrative techniques and went on to unfold in a full-fledged manner by the end of the decade. The paper would look at Chappa Kurishu (Head or Tails, 2011)
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Ability as ‘performance’: analyzing the able-ness of ‘life’ through a critical study of The Shawshank Redemption and The Dark Knight Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Souradip Bhattacharyya
This article deals closely with the relation between the ability and state of being alive. It asks an elemental question: what does the word ‘life’ remind us of? While ‘life’ may generically be defined as the ability to do all that signifies the act of living, a more political way of defining ‘life’ would be to consider it as the medium of being alive as human or, an individual person’s existence.
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Neoliberal Cricketing Subjects in Contemporary India: The State-Market Dichotomy in Two Cricket Movies Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Rakesh Ramamoorthy
This essay examines the ways in which two popular cricket movies from India — the Hindi movie Iqbal (2005) and the Tamil movie Jeeva (2014) — validate the tenets of “roll-back neoliberalism” (Peck and Tickell 2002), an ideology that calls for the withdrawal of State-regulatedwelfare mechanisms in favour of free market capitalism. The protagonists of these movies are talented cricketers from underprivileged
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Creative Vision and Creative Arts: Significations and Metaphors of Keys in Alex Idoko’s Symbolist Arts Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Ekenechukwu A. Anikpe,Ndubuisi Nnanna,Adebowale O. Adeogun,Emeka Aniago
Artistic symbols in many ways act as complimentary narrative tools that elevate and define the message from the artist, which can help to generate efficacious consciousness and mood aggregation in the beholders. The purpose of this study is to deepen the appreciation of the embedded significances of keys as symbolic objects in selected symbolist art by Alex Idoko which represents variously, mystical
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The Beast in the Closet: Interrogating the Trauma of Sibling Incest in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Novel The Wonder Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Poulomi Modak
Emma Donoghue’s neo-Victorian novel The Wonder (2016) is a remarkable exploration of the Victorian era’s indifference towards the issues of woman and child safety against the heinous crimes of sexual abuse. The horror of sibling incest, which eventually develops the sense of guilt within the protagonist and gradually isolates her from the entire extrinsic world, has been taken into consideration for
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Spaces of Care and Graphic Medicine Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Sathyaraj Venkatesan,Livine Ancy A
While there are several studies that focus on care settings in relation to verbal narratives, only a few studies have paid attention to how comics in general, and graphic medicine in particular, engage critical care environments and settings. Drawing strengths from the underground and alternative comics and capitalizing on health humanities, graphic medicine, a recent development in the comics genre
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Only ‘Time’ will ‘Tell’: Influence of temporality on the interpretation of narrative discourses Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Debmalya Biswas
The notion of language has been broadly understood in different ways with respect to existing literatures revolving around form, meaning, sound & context. Although overtly these understandings do try to integrate with the functionality of a complex organic system, they glaringly lack reference to the basis for its realization, i.e., time. Approaches to problematize the understanding of language have
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Towards an Epistemology of Reading: Defining the Process of Reading in Modern Terms Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Arun D M
The chaotic space caused by information explosion in present times has made the process and purpose of reading to be always questioned. Technological advancement has made reading appear as a mere mockery at the very outset. But the world still prioritizes knowledge that is acquired through observation, valuation and interpretation. At the time of Big Data, there still persists a sense of agency to
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Silence, Satire and Empathy: Reading Appupen’s Topoi in His Wordless Graphic Narratives Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Kabita Mondal,Joydeep Banerjee
The projection of the incongruities of contemporary times through the frame of satire is a powerful instrument in the genre of comics and graphic narratives and in Indian graphic literature as well. Mendiburo-Seguel and Heintz (2020) explain eight Comic Style Markers (CSM) in Latin-American cultures, and satire, a “darker style”, is one of them. The paper aims to conceptualise how Appupen’s wordless
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Postmodern/Post-mortem Human Body-Parts: Grotesque Subjects in The Melancholy of Anatomy Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Jharna Choudhury
This paper critiques the literary representation of the human body as a “clean” slate, an organically wholesome subject by delving into the postmodern body-writing of Shelley Jackson’s short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy (2002). Building upon the idea of “metabody” or grotesque body-part as subjects, the flesh-characters, namely Egg, Sperm, Foetus, Cancer, Nerve, Phlegm, Blood, Milk and