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True story of Antony and Cleopatra: Newspaper Article

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The True Story Of 'Antony And Cleopatra' September 28, 2010 1:00 PM ET Heard on  Talk of the Nation LISTEN ·30:17 30-Minute Listen Toggle more options Busts of Cleopatra VII, the last of the Ptolemaic monarchs, on exhibit at The British Museum in London. Adrian Dennis/AFP They are arguably the most famous lovers in history. Marcus Antonius of Rome stood at the pinnacle of power, fighting to be the most powerful man in the known world; and Cleopatra VII Philopator was the queen of one ancient civilization, Egypt, and heir to the unmatched cultural achievements of another, Greece. Their love affair, their war together, their defeat and, finally, their suicides have been told and retold for centuries. But most of those retellings have been far from accurate, according to author and historian Adrian Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy, author of  Antony and Cleopatra,  describes the couple's true story and why so much of what we know about them is wrong. Excerpt: 'Antony And Cleopatra...

Women's Writing Newspaper Article

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blogis librorum. Expert blogging about rare books The History and Importance of Women's Literature Written by  Adrienne Rivera  | Apr 12, 2020. 1:00 PM Women's literature has often been defined by publishers as a category of writing done by women. Though obviously this is true, many scholars find such a definition reductive. What makes the history of women's writing so interesting is that in many ways it is a new area of study. The tradition of women writing has been much ignored due to the inferior position women have held in male-dominated societies. It is still not unheard of to see literature classes or anthologies in which women are greatly outnumbered by male writers or even entirely absent. The onus of women's literature, then, is to categorize and create an area of study for a group of people marginalized by history and to explore through their writing their lives as they were while occupying such a unique sociopolitical space within their culture. Before the in...

Nampally Road Summary

Search for self-identity in Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road P.Kavitha M.Phil.ScholarResearchDepartmentEnglishSadakathullah AppaCollege Tirunelveli Abstract: Meena Alexander, an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer also with kaleidoscopic quqlities. She was Born in Allahabad and raised in India and Sudan. She belongs to a Syrian Christian Family, she accompanied her parents when she was five to Khartoum, Sudan, later she attended the university of Khartoum where she studied English and French Literature. Then she moved to England for her doctoral studies in Nottingham. She returned to Hyderabad and started to teach English at Sona Nivas college. Meena Alexander tracesher life from childhood in India through youth in England . As a result, Alexander struggles to find her identity, despite a past full of moves and changes. This paper discusses the novel Nampally Road and how Alexander portrays the pain of losing self- identity, dislocation, immigration. Keywords: feminism, ...

Nampally Road

NAMPALLY ROAD: A PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND COLLECTIVE DISPLACEMENT WITHIN THE HOMELAND Dr. Shashikant Mhalunkar, P. G. Dept. of English, B.N.N. College, Bhiwandi, Dist. Thane Abstract: Fiction has been a major tool to articulate the personal trauma and social crisis as well as communal unrest for centuries. It has been used by writers to chronicle their personal experiences, which ultimately can be applied to the masses in which the writer lived. In the era of Postcolonization and Globalization writers have been incessantly narrating their personal experiences. Meena Alexander’s novel, Nampally Road chronicles the social and political turmoil in the postcolonial India where the writer traces the rise of neo-feudalism after the colonial rule. The natives suffer at the hands of political leaders and experience trauma of political dislocation, issues of identity crisis and gender in the parochial social cryptograph. The present paper attempts to explore the personal, political, and collecti...

Nampally Road

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