April 2012

Invisibility of the I's in “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Janie Crawford, the female protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, is a black woman. To be black and to be a beautiful woman entails the extreme visibility in case of body in the society. Janie is under the oppressing gaze of the patriarchal society and through strengthening the invisible inside and hiding it from the disciplinary power structure; she manages to return the gaze, to gain the...

Author(s): Mahmood Daram and Sepideh Hozhabrsadat

April 2012

What the body remembers: A feminist perspective of the Partition of India and Pakistan

  The most predictable form of violence experienced by women is when the women of one community are sexually assaulted by the men of the other community, in an overt assertion of their identity and a simultaneous humiliation of the other community by dishonouring their women. Being extremely vulnerable women become easy targets of every form of oppression. This evil is further compounded if they are placed in...

Author(s): Radhika Purohit

April 2012

On the dimensions of test anxiety and foreign language learners

  Anxiety is one of the most basic human emotions and occurs in every person. In the educational setting, anxiety is experienced often by the students when being evaluated such as when taking a test which is called test anxiety. ‘Test anxiety’ is an apprehension over academic evaluation. This anxiety is also available in foreign language learning. This study intends to investigate the relationship...

Author(s): Azadeh Nemati