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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.945)

 VOLUME 11, ISSUE - 02 ( MAR - APR 2025 )

DR. RAJASHRI BARVEKAR & ANJALEENA SONI

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This paper analyses Ashwin Sanghi’s The Rozabal Line through the perspective of New Historicism, focusing on the novel’s reimagining of the life of Jesus Christ in India and the historicity within the account of relationship between different religions of the world and its consequences in the contemporary socio-cultural structures. Through the fusion of creative imagination and various diverse, debated and deliberated historic information present in the global domain, Sanghi’s narrative interweaves historical investigation, religious symbolism, and popular fiction to contest historical discourses. He also explores the perspective of hegemony, where information and its dissemination is manipulated to restrain cultures.  Applying theoretical concepts from Michel Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt, that history is not an objective truth but a constructed narrative, shaped by power, discourse, and cultural biases; this study explores how the novel functions as a cultural artifact that questions the permanence of history and explores the subjectivity and variability in its nature.  

Key Words: Reimagining, History, New Historicism, Subjectivity, Variability, Power, Culture

DR. BALASAHEB SAGADE

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Jim Corbett was an eminent writer of jungle stories, belongs to Nature writing, mainly shikar literature. In his earlier age he was famous hunter, but gradually in the company of nature, he changed into preserver and lover of jungle life. Even he had developed his own philosophy of life in jungles. Present study focuses on analyzing his accounts on jungle life. It will be helpful to increase human’s interest in conservation of environment and its equilibrium. For this purpose, Corbett’s well-known literary work Jungle Lore is selected to study in point view of Eco-criticism. The selected work is referred as his autobiography. The undertaken study will be helpful in understanding the author’s ecological sensibility in the present time of environmental crisis.

Keywords: Ecology, Naturalist, flora, fauna, foothills of Himalayas, jungle ecosystem, topography, tribal’s, etc.

DR. VIBHATI VASANTRAO KULKARNI

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Ravinder Singh is the bestselling author of novels like I Too Had a Love Story (2008), Can Love Happen Twice? (2011), and Like It Happened Yesterday (2013). The novel, Can Love Happen Twice? is a sequel to the novel I Too Had a Love Story. It continues the story of Ravin, who is the protagonist of I Too Had a Love Story. Can Love Happen Twice? presents a tragic love story of Ravin with Simar. The story of Can Love Happen Twice? provides the psychological realism by painting the landscape overwhelming with the emotions and feelings not only of Ravin and Simar but also of the friends, families and people who are connected with them. Their love, rejection, and expectations shape his psychological landscape. The novel explains how the relationship between Ravin and Simar impacts their mental states, their responses and their behaviours. The paper aims to present the psychology of Ravin and Simar through a detailed and emotional narrative that captures their inner turmoil, thoughts, and feelings and discuss Can Love Happen Twice? as a psychological realism.

Key Words: Psychological Realism, stream of consciousness, mental health, inner conflicts and self-reflection. etc.

DEEKSHA & PROF. ALOK KUMAR

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This research paper explores the concept of the carnivalesque as a critical framework for understanding identity, ideology, and cultural hybridity in Hanif Kureishi’s novel The Black Album (1995). Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theorization of carnival as a space of inversion, laughter, and resistance to dominant hierarchies, the paper investigates how the novel transforms multicultural London into a metaphorical carnival where racial, religious, sexual, and political identities collide, overlap, and mutate. Set against the backdrop of 1989 Britain—a period marked by the Rushdie Affair, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the tensions of Thatcher-era

Keywords: identity, sexism, feminism, ecstacy, racial segregation, prejudice, fundamentalism, cultural conflicts.

SHRUTI MISHRA & DR. PANKAJ KUMAR SINGH

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This research explores the cinematic adaptations of South Asian Partition novels — Pinjar by Amrita Pritam, Ice-Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa, and What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin — with an emphasis on how cinema reimagines, reinterprets, and reconstructs narrative forms originally expressed through literary texts. These novels, grounded in the traumatic history of the Partition of India in 1947, are layered with memory, gendered violence, and loss. Their filmic translations into visual narratives engage in a unique storytelling process where textual memory meets visual imagination. Through a comparative analysis of the adaptations, this paper examines questions of fidelity, narrative technique, gendered trauma, visual language, and cultural translation.

Keywords: Cinematic adaptation, Partition literature, Pinjar, Ice-Candy Man, What the Body Remembers, visual narrative, gender and trauma, Indian cinema, postcolonial identity.

DR. GURJASJEET KAUR

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Terry Eagleton's Marxism and Literary Criticism provides a foundational exploration of how Marxist theory applies to the study of literature. His analysis offers insights into the class struggle inherent in literary production, distribution, and reception. Terry Eagleton builds on the Marxist concept of the base (economic foundation) and superstructure (cultural and ideological institutions). Literature, as part of the superstructure, both reflects and reinforces the economic base. Literary works can reveal the class conflicts and economic conditions of their time. This paper focuses on the class struggle in the literary realm with reference to Terry Eagleton's Marxism and Literary Criticism.

Keywords: Marxism, Base, Superstructure, Ideology, Class Struggle

DR. DEEPTI JAIN

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One of the first and most important Indian English novels to explore the caste system and the cruel practice of untouchability is Mulk Raj Anand's 1935 work Untouchable. Anand highlights the violence, humiliation, and social marginalisation that Dalits endured in colonial India through the figure of Bakha, a teenage sweeper. This essay explores the novel's themes of female oppression, religious hypocrisy, caste discrimination, and the pursuit of liberty in order to analyse it as a work of social protest. This essay makes the case—based on critical viewpoints—that Untouchable is still a seminal work of Indian literature because of its humanist conception of justice and equality as well as its narrative realism.

Keywords: untouchability, marginalisation, liberty