Colloquium: A Journal Of The Arts Department

Colloquium, conceived by the Arts Section of the college as a multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual journal, seeks to publish scholarly articles on cross-cutting issues, viewed from the perspective of the liberal arts. It is a maiden attempt in the history of the college to bring out a peer reviewed annual journal, bearing an ISSN number. Contributions are invitedfrom students and scholars across the board.  The first issue has dealt with the idea of ‘space’ which in today’s world may be a geographical, social or even mental construct, felt as much in its presence as in its absence.

The contents of the Journal are as follows:

‘Home Strange Home’: Childhood and the Diasporic
Experience of Space in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
– Jashomati Ghose

Re-locating ‘space’ in Representation: The Perils of
Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens
– Dr. Gargi Talapatra

Someone’s ‘Terra Nullius’: Studying Lost Topographies
in Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s ‘We Are Going’
– Anirban Guha Thakurta

Kafka’s The Metamorphosis : A tale of tangled
relationships and multiple transformations
– Partha Sarathi Nandi

The ‘us’ and ‘them’ binarisation in
Chitrangada, The Crowning Wish
– Nilanjan Chakraborty

Treatment of Supernatural spaces by Satyajit Ray
– Nabanita Das

In Search of Absent Presence(s): The Narrative as
Disnarrated Space in Githa Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel
– Sonal Kapur

‘Bearing the Taste of the Place’: Spatiality in
Wendell Berry’s Farming: A Hand Book
– Arunabha Ghosh

Negotiating Space: The Female Body as a Site of Power
in the Literature of Contemporary American Women of Colour
– Nawazish Azim

Place / Space in Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems
– Kuntala Sengupta

The American Urban Sublime: Literary Manifestations
– Dr. Swati Mukerjee

Superhero films: Invading Cultural and Private Spaces
– Sourjya Roy

The Poetics of William Carlos Williams: The Use of
‘Rolling’ in Paterson as a means of transfiguration of
‘Actual’/ ‘Linguistic’ Space
– Rupsa Banerjee

Conceptualizing The Tribal Identity in
The Context of Space: Case of Manipur
– Dona Ganguly

Globalisation – The Normative and The Reality
– Lopamudra Majumdar

Collapsing the Boundaries of the ‘Home’ and ‘World’:
Tagore’s Visionary Humanism
– Paramita Dutta

The relevance of William Wordsworth’s
Philosophy of Nature in the 21st century
– Barnana Sarkar

Paradise Lost by John Milton:
From the 21st century Perspective

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