By examining discursive struggles around sexuality in contemporary India, I show how and when the legal status of sexuality becomes used by individuals and communities to make political claims about their relations in and to the post-colonial nation-state. The ‘modern’ legal system introduced by British colonial rule installed state regulation of homosexuality and sex work in India. I look at w...

The article explores recurring motifs of dying, resurrection and sacrifice in the Harry Potter series that one way or another are related to theme death its religious interpretation. author this analyzes exact ways which J.K. Rowling builds semantic fields death, «marrying» tradition with modernity referring intertextuality, especially her use elements from Christianity tradition.

This paper explores women inheritance as a cultural paradigm of the intersection between modernity and tradition in Francis Imbuga’s Aminata. It pinpoints such through lens post-colonialism. The Kenyan native is influenced by British imperial modernity. Therefore, it demonstrates dichotomy traditions because natives reject any foreign interference their affairs, which not sufficiently tackled p...