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  • Liminality, representation, silence: the poetics and politics of Sarnath Banerjee’s Doab Dil (2019)

    • Authors: Nishevita Jayendran (2023)

  • This paper interrogates the value of silence, located within liminal spaces in Sarnath Banerjee’s Doab Dil (2019). Structured as an informal graphic essay, Doab Dil proffers ironic commentaries on nature, culture, cities, the countryside, history, fiction, work, sleep, insomnia, popular culture, and the quest for meaning in life. In the process, Doab Dil combines text and drawing to construct a postmodernist intertextual mural of juxtaposed quotations, descriptions, and metaphysical reflection on the values of contemporary culture. At the points of these juxtapositions, liminal spaces are created that are characterised by a dense silence.
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  • ‘Set me free': spaces and the politics of creativity in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016)

    • Authors: Nishevita Jayendran (2020)

  • This paper explores the politics of space, freedom and creativity through the prism of novelistic discourse in Margaret Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed (2016), which is a twenty-first-century adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest (1610–1611). Hag-Seed, set in a Canadian prison, narrates the revenge orchestrated by the protagonist Felix on his antagonists Tony and Sal. Felix, an instructor in a prison-reform programme called the Fletcher’s Correctional Program where he teaches Shakespeare to the inmates, asks them to predict the future of the characters in The Tempest. The prisoners demonstrate agentivity as they bring their individual perspectives to bear on their interpretations.