November 2012

Blanche Dubois’s tragedy of incomprehension in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

  The present paper elaborates on the concept of self- knowledge in Tennessee Williams’A Streetcar Named Desire based on Carl Gustav Jung’s psychoanalytic theory of archetypes. Jung considers the “collective unconscious” as a mental process in human mind from which he/she is not aware. It is the immortal part of man and the unknown psyche of him which is shaped by archetypes - the...

Author(s): Akram Amiri Senejani and Eyvazi Mojgan

November 2012

Transcending conventional identity structures: Dorothea Smartt’s re-negotiated self-projections

  Dorothea Smartt’s poetics reflects an innovative paradigm by which she challenges and reshapes concepts of national and gender identities. She explores old and new world inheritances, and skillfully traverses historical, cultural, temporal and spatial boundaries to arrive at a re-negotiated and reinvigorated identity. Smartt’s poetics thus evinces multiple elements: while it synthesizes Caribbean...

Author(s): Marie Sairsingh

November 2012

Semiotics and language interlarding in Yoruba traditional wedding bilingual discourse

  The paper discusses the traditional Yoruba wedding ceremony among bilingual Yoruba speaking families, with the following aims: (i) to throw more light on the discourse content and structure of the traditional Yoruba-English wedding bilingual discourse; (ii) to identify the place of semiotics and signage in the wedding discourse. Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis provided the theoretical framework for...

Author(s): Adebukunola Atolagbe