Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) (ISSN: 2395-2636(Print) : 2321 – 3108 (Online)) an International Journal open access print and online, indexed, peer reviewed and refereed journal that provides rapid publication (quarterly) of articles in all areas Related to English Language and Literature, Linguistics of the subject.
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Volume 14 , Issue 3: 2026 (Under progress)
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Reclaiming the Past and Reconstructing History: A Saga
of Subaltern Representation in the Selected Dramatic
Works of Mahasweta Devi Dr. Waliul Alam Assistant Professor, Department of English, S.N.S.R.K.S. College, Saharsa–852202, Bihar, India (A Constituent Unit of B.N. Mandal University, Madhepura) Email: waliulinkh2008@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.1 |
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Neologisms in the English
Oral Production of Francophone Students of the
Department of Bilingual Studies at the University of
Yaoundé I Alobwede Charles¹*, Tamen Sedryde² ¹ Associate Professor, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon E-mail: calobs@yahoo.com ² PhD Research Scholar, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon E-mail: sedrydetamen@gmail.com *Corresponding Author: Alobwede Charles DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.13 |
13-25 |
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Reclaiming the
Silenced: A Comparative Study of Urmila, Ahalya, and
Surpanakha in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Forest of
Enchantments and Kavita Kane's Feminist Retellings Saranya M¹*, Dr. P. Bagavathy Rajan² ¹ Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nehru Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India ² Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts College, Tamil Nadu, India Corresponding Author: Saranya M E-mail: saranyamanickam21698@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.26 |
26-32 |
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From Sacred Service to
Gendered Exploitation: Re-reading the Devadasi System in
Amita Trasi's The Colour of Our Sky Sumitra Sahoo English Teacher, St. Xavier's Public School E-mail: sumitrasahoo34581@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.33 |
33-35 |
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Ecocriticism in Indian
English Poetry: Nature, Culture, and Crisis Dr. Divya Singh Associate Professor, C.M.P. Degree College, Prayagraj–211002, Uttar Pradesh, India E-mail: divyasinghcmp@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.36 |
36-45 |
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Fractured Selves and the
Politics of Treachery: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice
Candy Man Sanjeev Kumar Bali Department of English, Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada- 520008, India Email: sanjeevkumarbali7@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.46 |
46-52 |
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Urban Life and Rural Ethics
in the Works of Sudha Murthy: A Comparative Study of
Ethical Values, Ambition, and Human Relationships Vintee Choudhary¹, Dr. Manisha Luthra² ¹Research Scholar, Department of Languages, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: vinteechoudhary828@gmail.com ²Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Science and Social Science, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.53 |
53-60 |
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Cognitive Offloading and
Critical Synthesis: A Conceptual Framework for
Integrating Project-Based Learning and Artificial
Intelligence in Secondary English Language Arts Dr. Sibi Chakaravarty J¹, P. Maheswaran², R. Indumathi³ ¹Assistant Professor, Department of English, K.S. Rangasamy College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Tiruchengode, Affiliated to Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India Email: sibichakaravarty@gmail.com ²Assistant Professor, Department of English, K.S. Rangasamy College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Tiruchengode, Affiliated to Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India ³Assistant Professor, Department of English, K.S. Rangasamy College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Tiruchengode, Affiliated to Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.61 |
61-70 |
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Voices of Silence and
Resistance: A Feminist Study of Selected Novels of Anita
Desai and Shashi Deshpande Suman Devi¹, Dr. Navninder Kaur² ¹Research Scholar, Department of English, Desh Bhagat University, Punjab, India ²Assistant Professor, Department of English, Desh Bhagat University, Punjab, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.71 |
71-79 |
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Postmodern Tendencies in
Indian English Fiction Prof. (Dr.) Jagdish Batra Professor Emeritus of English, SRM University Haryana, Sonipat, Haryana, India Email: drjagdishbatra@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.80 |
80-91 |
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Contextualizing English
Language Proficiency among Students in Rural Schools of
India: A Quantitative Examination of Socioeconomic and
Educational Determinants Atul¹, Dr. Vinod Kumar² ¹Research Scholar, Amity School of Liberal Arts, Amity University Haryana, Haryana, India Email: atulkhurana12597@gmail.com ORCID: 0009-0009-9934-6987 ²Assistant Professor (III), Amity School of Liberal Arts, Amity University Haryana, Haryana, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.92 |
92-99 |
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Why Does Tagore Oppose
Western Model of Political Nationalism? Dr. Shaikh Mahemud Abdul Raheman Associate Professor, Department of English, Shri Muktanand College, Gangapur, District Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India Email: smaraheman77@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.100 |
100-105 |
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Reclaiming Sanskrit as an
Indigenous Knowledge Tradition: A Postcolonial
Perspective Dr. Tanu Srivastava Government Degree College Dadha Bujurg, Hata, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: tanu20srivastava@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.106 |
106-115 |
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Intergenerational Trauma and
Emotional Inheritance in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance
of Loss: A Psychological Reading Kulbhushan Rajak Assistant Professor, Department of English Government Degree College, Nainpur, District Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, India E-mail: kb.rajak@gmail.com. DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.116 |
116-121 |
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Beyond Human Exceptionalism:
Identity, Agency, and the Posthuman Subject in Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Krishna Kunjikuttan K Assistant Professor, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kalamassery, Kerala, India E-mail: kunjikuttankrishna@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.122 |
122-127 |
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Beyond Human Exceptionalism:
Identity, Agency, and the Posthuman Subject in Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Krishna Kunjikuttan K Assistant Professor, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kalamassery, Kerala, India E-mail: kunjikuttankrishna@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.128 |
128-135 |
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Journeying Beyond
Boundaries: Travel and the Construction of Female
Subjectivity in Ruby Lal's Vagabond Princess Nisha¹ & Dr.Pooja Malik² ¹Research Scholar, Amity School of Liberal Arts, Amity University Haryana, India E-mail: anishasingh.as1996@gmail.com ²Assistant Professor, Amity School of Liberal Arts, Amity University Haryana, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.136 |
136-142 |
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The Acoustic Archive:
Illiteracy, Perverse Pedagogy, and Gendered Trauma in
The Reader and Its Film Adaptation Abul Hasnat¹, Ziniya Al Baha² ¹²Research Scholars, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, India Abul Hasnat: hasnatabul861@gmail.com Ziniya Al Baha: ziniyaalbaha@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.143 |
143-156 |
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Postmodern Pastiche and
Narrative Reconstruction in Orson Scott Card’s Speaker
for the Dead Dr. Narinder Kumar E-mail: narinder.jammuuniversity@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.157 |
157-165 |
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The Derivation of
Wh-Interrogatives in Najdi Arabic: A Right-Dislocation
Analysis Sami Alharbi Independent Researcher Email: L-se@hotmail.com. DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.166 |
166-172 |
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The Poetry of Chhayawad—A
Thing of Beauty Ipsa Arun M.A. English, CGSET Qualified Email: ipsasng28@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.173 |
173-179 |
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The Poetry of Chhayawad—A
Thing of Beauty Ipsa Arun M.A. English, CGSET Qualified Email: ipsasng28@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.180 |
180-187 |
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Vision of Viksit Bharat in
Dalit Literature: A Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s
Untouchable Dr. Shahzad Ahmad Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: shahzadgfc123@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.188 |
188-192 |
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Between Choice and Social
Expectation: Individual Identity in Vikram Seth’s A
Suitable Boy and An Equal Music B. Suriya¹ and Dr. P. Santhi² ¹ Ph.D. Research Scholar, PG & Research Department of English, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, P. Velur, Tamil Nadu, India ² Principal and Research Supervisor (Retd.), PG & Research Department of English, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, P. Velur, Tamil Nadu, India Email: suriyainp.297@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.193 |
193-197 |
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From Humanities Computing to
Digital Humanities: The Emergence and Development of a
Field Syed Saqib Anwar¹ and Rahul Vipan² ¹ Department of English, University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Email: saqibanwar15@gmail.com ² Department of English, University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Email: Rahulmahi754@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.198 |
198-204 |
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Literary Criticism in the
Era of Artificial Intelligence with Reference to Agatha
Christie’s Works M. R. Nivas¹ and Dr. P. Santhi² ¹ Ph.D. Research Scholar, PG & Research Department of English, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, P. Velur, Tamil Nadu, India Email: nivasmr1234@gmail.com ² Supervisor and Associate Professor, PG & Research Department of English, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, P. Velur, Tamil Nadu, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.205 |
205-211 |
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Reconstructing Identity and
Memory in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief Earnest Paul G.¹ and Marie Evangeline H.² ¹ Research Scholar, Department of English, School of Humanities, Takshashila University, Tamil Nadu, India Email: paulchristi.27@gmail.com ² Research Supervisor, Department of English, School of Humanities, Takshashila University, Tamil Nadu, India Email: thanya2004@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.212 |
212-219 |
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Education, Cultural
Hybridity, and the Future of Punjab: A Comparative Study
of Vikram Chandra and Hari Kunzru Manveer Singh¹ and Dr. Renu Sharma² ¹ Research Scholar, Department of English, Desh Bhagat University, Punjab, India Email: manimanveer4194@gmail.com ² Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, Desh Bhagat University, Punjab, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.220 |
220-225 |
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The Kakadu Jarnalis and the
Mechanics of Extraction: Crip Linguistic Agency and the
Subversion of the Humanitarian Gaze in Indra Sinha’s
Animal’s People Raghav¹ and Sadaf Shah² ¹ Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Email: Raghavgupta5224@gmail.com ² Professor, Department of English, University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.226 |
226-231 |
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Intertextuality of
Christianity and Chinese May Fourth Literature: Guo
Moruo as an Example Yao Xiao School of Foreign Languages, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China Email: 1877853158@qq.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.232 |
232-244 |
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Marriage in Austen’s Novels
and Modern India: A Critical Assessment Mostakin Sarkar B.A. (Hons.) in English & M.A. in Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: mostakinsarkarjay@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.245 |
245-254 |
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World-Building as Cognitive
Simulation: A Cognitive-Poetic Analysis of George R. R.
Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire S. Karthikeyan¹ and Dr. Sree Sakthi Prem² ¹ Department of English, PERI College of Arts and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ² Department of English, B. S. Abdur Rahman Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Email: uesskaypee8@gmail.com ORCID: 0009-0001-6246-6557 DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.255 |
255-262 |
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Examining the Maternal
Foodscape in Selected Short Stories from Bulbul Sharma’s
The Anger of the Aubergines Avantika Chamoli University of Delhi Email: avantikaachamoli@gmail.com DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.14.3.263 |
263-270 |
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