Language, Displacement, and Cultural Negotiation in Sanaz Toossi’s English : A Study through Translingualism and Identity Theory

Postcolonial Identity through the Politics of Language in Salman Rushdie's Shame

The study aims to analyse the issue of language politics and postcolonial identity in Salman Rushdie's Shame through the framework of postcolonial literary theories. The research considers the author's use of the English language as a tool of overcoming the colonizer's linguistic hegemony and creation of his unique pos...

A Study of Gender Identity and Resistance in the Select Works of Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is among the most outspoken voices in contemporary Indian writing in English. A poet, novelist, translator and activist, she has built a body of work in which gender, caste and political violence are examined together. This paper studies gender identity and resistance in her select works: the...

BETWEEN LINGUISTIC APPRECIATION AND APPROPRIATION: MULTILINGUALISM, SELF-AUTHORIZATION, AND MINORITY IDENTITY IN A GLOBALIZED DIGITAL CONTEXT

Contemporary globalization and intensified migration have produced dense sites of language contact and multilingual interaction, reshaping how cultural difference is negotiated in everyday and digital communication. In such contexts, language functions not only as a tool of communication but also as a symbolic resource...

Writing Between Worlds: Linguistic Displacement, Identity, and the Search for Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words and Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri’s literary oeuvre has frequently been examined through the frameworks of diaspora, cultural identity, migration, hybridity, and displacement. However, her later linguistic transition from English to Italian offers a distinctive dimension through which her understanding of belonging and identity can be rec...

Negotiating Identities Across Filipino and Thai EFL Contexts: A Narrative Inquiry of a Filipino Teacher’s Professional Identity Re-construction

Language learning is not only about achieving communicative purposes, but also entails investing in a second language and struggling with identity re-construction, which is shaped and positioned by sociocultural institutions and ideological structures. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence a Filipin...

Identity Fluidity and Reconstruction from the Perspective of Cultural Communication : A Case Study of Susan