From the Beats to BAM to Punk | The Cold War Was Never Cold
Considering the extent to which education, or the lack thereof, impacts the central characters in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things, it is surprising that the novel contains so little information about twin sisters Rahel’s and Estha’s educations. Much of the story is, after all, set during the twins’ school years, and their …
We live in a paradoxical time vis-à-vis democracy. While democratic reforms have recently taken hold in places as diverse as Tunisia and Sri Lanka (Tunisia through revolution; Sri Lanka through the ballot), and while Greece has turned to the demos as a front line against its predatory creditors, leading democracies such as the United States …
Neel Mukherjee’s novel The Lives of Others begins and ends with acts of extreme violence. The first is a murder-suicide committed in the mid-1960s by a West Bengal sharecropper who, ruined by drought and usury, sees in death a welcome escape from what he calls a “world of misery, of endless, endless misery” (2). The …
Good news came yesterday in the form of an acceptance letter to the Hellenic Association for the Study of English‘s conference, “Rethinking Democracy in Literature, Language and Culture.” The event is hosted by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki‘s School of English Language and Literature and will take place from May 15-17, 2015. You can learn more …