Journal of Literature & Aesthetics
An international peer-reviewed journal devoted to critical and creative writing in English
Recent Issues
January-June 2024 issue (vol.24 no. 1) carries articles on Yudhishthira in the Mahabharata, Santhal folktales of Jharkjand, theorising a new postulate of laughter, Changampuzha, a study of early Indian women's writing, Garbo, Neru, Vijayarajamallika, the myth of decolonization, women in early history and literature of Kashmir, The Prisons we Broke,The Space Between Us, The Beast with Nine Billion Feet, Wizard of the Crow, TU, a Marxist critique of Marxism, Arundhati Roy, The Kitemaker. The contributors include Saumya Sharma, Shalini Pallavi & M. Ramakrishnan, Prachi Behrani, Vinaya Kumari & Beulah Victor, Prabha Varma, Murali Manohar, Chander Mohan & Shrawan K. Sharma, Anej Somaraj & Ancy Elizabeth John, Binu K.D. & Anne Placid, Sahabuddin Ahamed, Bazila Ehsan, G. Vijayarenganayaki & T.S. Ramesh, Mahima & Amrita, Amit Kumar Soni, Y. Getzie Arathana Mary, Seetha Vijayakumar, Denny Joseph, Jestila Mathew & S.J. Kala.
July-December 2023 issue (vol. 23 no. 2) carries articles on identity crisis of Sylheti Hindus, the impact of Dalit literature in Indian Cinema, significance of the wounded child, the fault lines of the postcolonial nation-state statecraft, Legend of the Snow Queen, Flights, The Folded Earth, Israeli and Palestinian Cinema, digital resistance literature, Wanderings of a Pligrim in Search of the Picturesque, a reading of select works of Jhumpa Lahiri, Death of a Salesman, 'Bio-Icon', Wonder Woman, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, Umrao Jan Ada, Lights Out, depiction of cast in the contemporaty retelling of the Mahabharata. The contributers include Medha Devi, Komal Bhatt and Divyabha Vashisth, Akilandeshwari Srinivasan, Binayak Roy, Neha Nair and Premalatha S., Chitra V.S., Arunya S. and V. Vinod Kumar, Sarth S., Praveena Thompson, Nurjahan Begum, Stancilaus S., Manjari Johri, Mehak Islam, Sadiya Nasira Al Faruque, A. Revathi, Abhinanda Chatterjee and Mukesha Ranjan Verma, Muralidhar Sharma, Lakshi Bharadwaj and Divyabha Vashisht and Kushma Kumari T.V. and S. Jayalakshmi.
Jan.-June 2023 issue (vol. 23 no.1) carries articles on Katherine Mansfield, Kamala Markandaya, Keki N. Daruwalla, Dina Nayeri, J-Horrors, Greta Gerwing, Sudha Murthy and Qurratulain Hyder among others. The contributors include Jasmeet Gill, A. Vasanthi & M. Noushath, Monisha Bora, Karthika S.B., Aswathy Chandra Bhanu, Manjari Johri, R. Rohini & Jayasree A., Namita Sethi and others.