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  Abstract             The Caribbean   Literature speaks of this world, of the former colonial world and of new contemporary world. It was refined by the voices of great writers. The most common theme in this kind of literature is the cultural passivity of the societies they belong to. The paper scrutinizes how Kamau Brathwaite’s   “Ananse” recreates the lost native culture of Africa by binding past stories, cultures, words and songs of Africa. It brings dead African Culture to life. Key Words:             Culture, rebirth, colonization, trauma, memory,cultural revolt. Introduction:             Amalgamation of the colonizer’s culture and the native culture becomes an important aspect from the point of view of the birth of West Indian’s own tradition.   In Raymond Williams view, culture is...

    If women are to discover and express who they are, they must begin with their sexuality and obviously it begins with their bodies. Female body becomes the site of forced colonization which the male master not only uses but also their target of assault and abuses. Luce Irigaray rightly claims that “It is important for us to guard and keep our own bodies and at the same time make them emerge from the silence and subjugation” (421). Women writers of today have moved away from traditional portrayal of women as enduring, self-sacrificing women, the characterization of gender inequalities, extra-marital relationship, rather, their novels discuss burning issues of contemporary reality, the cultural change, cyber culture due to the onset of globalization. A number of diasporic writers- post colonial migrant writers of the first generation and second generation to the present young writers of the millennium- Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Tulsi Badrinath, Padma Viswananthan, Suma Chit...

  Abstact- Anita Desai is an existential writer who is pre-occupied with internal conflicts and agonies of her sensitive characters in an insensitive world. The most common themes in her novels are human relationship, particularly the man-woman relationship. In Jane Austen's novels, husband-hunting fills an important place in the action. In Mrs. Jhabvala's novels there is much stress on wife-hunting as on husband-hunting."1 But in the novels of Anita Desai the intricacies of relationship gains an enunciation. Her forte is the exploration of sensibility rather than the outer world of action. She has tried to forge a style supple and suggestive enough to convey the fever and fretfulness of the stream of consciousness of her principal characters. The theme of man-woman relationship in Anita Desai's novels reveals her consummate craftsmanship. Nowadays this theme has become more important due to rapid industrialization, growing awareness among women of their rights and i...

  Abstract - This analysis examine the constraints and motivating factors faced by Indian middle class women entrepreneur with special emphasizes given to Chennai metropolitan city as there is number of small scale women entrepreneur in the city. In this dynamic world, women entrepreneurs are a significant part of the global expedition for sustained economic development and social progress. In India, planning commission, central and state government recognizes that women should be in the mainstream of economic development. In particular the development of small scale enterprises for women is seen as the appropriate way to attack the poverty at grassroots level by generating income. Industrial policy of government of India has high lightened the need for entrepreneurship programs for women to enable them to start small scale industries. Even after 73 years of independence women in India are struggling for entrepreneurial freedom. That is why women as entrepreneurial resource have n...