For an internationally acclaimed Indian English poet, Debasish Lahiri, time is a recording of the lingering light, in nature, mind. His recent collection poems, Tether that Light (2022) attempt to follow trail light left selected miniature paintings, particularly Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, and Deccani paintings. The intricate artworks enchanting visuals these incredible canvases have enthralle...

Analogue materials and collage are fundamental to my research practice. They assist in examining peeling off layers embedded within the printed image. The human body represents power, an image featuring a privileged male is representation of that power (Brauer Callen, 2008). Photographs visual presentations these bodies bound by codes set culture certain space time. These have limitations, at s...

A text, as distinct from a sentence, can be defined literal use of language. Text is the unit communication, and for piece language to it must produces communicative purpose. Every sentence in text loaded with tools such transferring information, conveying attitudes or feelings, presenting facts. Seven standards textuality which are cohesion coherence oriented acceptability, informativity, situ...

This essay examines turn-of-the-21st-century responses to the foundational 19th-century novel by Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés, pointing ambivalence toward textual authority and migration as key elements in Cubans’ relationship historical memory. The analysis of two plays, a puppet show, novel, works visual performance art, all which have element were produced between 1994 2006, demonstrates ongoi...

Literature from the North-East has responded to national, global and local issues, including questions on immigration ethnic violence. They have resisted colonial framework of representation invoked a sense “cultural particularity” (Sarma, 2013). This literature adopted multilingual register respond 1) patriarchal 2) ethnonationalist discourses that forced overbearing presence in everyday lives...

In this paper I analyze two contemporary works of interactive fiction (IF), Nick Montfort’s Ad Verbum and Emily Short’s City of Secrets, as examples of two contrasting ways in which IF reacts to the perceived threat of computer graphics. In the postcommercial era of IF, graphics represent a factor that, without being acknowledged, has profoundly shaped the development of the medium. Post-graphi...

In this essay I consider the counter-intuitive (even apparently impossible) enterprise of picturing ekphrasis—of visually depicting verbal representation visual. do so by attending to two paintings, William Martin and James Barry, disturbing scene in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline which Iachimo gains illicit entry Imogen’s bedroom proceeds record details both room her body, he later uses convince Post...