The IUP Journal of English Studies

Volume 20, Issue 3, July-September 2025

ISSN :0973-3728

Impact Factor: 2.33; Acceptance rate: 15%; Turnaround time: 2-2 1/2 years

A 'peer reviewed' journal indexed on Scopus (Elsevier Group) and UGC-CARE List Group-II, and also included in EBSCO and ProQuest (Part of Clarivate) Database

It is a quarterly journal for informed critical evaluations of various areas of Literature, English Language Teaching, Translation studies relating to emerging and established genres. A fresh and invigorating evaluation of the contributions of writers and their significant writings are on offer in the Journal. Also deals with Linguistics and literature, Literary and literary theory, Bhasa studies, etc.

Focus Areas

  • British Literature   |  
  • American Literature   |  
  • Commonwealth Literature   |  
  • Indian Writing in English   |  
  • English Language Teaching   |  
  • Comparative Literature   |  
  • Translation Studies   |  

Current Issue

Volume 20, Issue 3, July-September 2025
‘On [Your Marriage] Depends My Honor’: A Study of Patriarchal Power Politics and Honor Killing with Reference to Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

Author: R Mohammed Anish* and J Michael Raj

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.5-14

Keywords: Honor killing, Family honor, Neo-patriarchal, Othello’s syndrome, Power politics

Situating the Diseased Self: Eating Disorder in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Author: Rashmi Das

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.15-26

Keywords: Eating disorder, Health humanities, Food and nonfood, Fictional pathography, Diseased self, Narrative medicine, Art therapy and Magical control

‘I’m sick, aren’t I?’: Dismantling Queer Sexuality Through Ecological Imagery in Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name

Author: Manshi Yadav and Palak Arora

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.27-35

Keywords: Literature, Queer, Text, Gay identity, Ecology, Narrative

Tracing Ecofeminist Concepts in Children’s Literature Through the Narratives of Mitra Phukan and C G Salamander

Author: Mallika Katoch and Bhavya Raj

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.36-46

Keywords: Children’s literature, Ecofeminism, Gender plurality, Nature and adventure, Perception and imagination

Draupadi’s Mahabharata: Revisioning Myth in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

Author: Suchitra Rani Mahato, Rajiv Bhushan and Maninder Kapoor

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.47-60

Keywords: Subversion, Patriarchy, Gender discrimination, Myth, Identity

Unusual Collocations and Cultural Identity: A Stylistic Study of Sudha Murty’s Fiction

Author: Rahul Ramesh Kale, Jayashri Nalkar and Swapnil Prakash Shirsath

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.61-71

Keywords: Sudha Murty, Indian English, Collocation, Stylistics, Cultural linguistics, World Englishes

Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”

Author: Christopher E Koy

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.72-82

Keywords: Charles Chesnutt, Trickster figures, Voodoo, Pharmakon, African American fiction

Masculinities and (Im)politeness: A Study of the American Sitcom The Big Bang Theory

Author: Namrata Paul, Sanjukta Ghosh and Kavya Krishna K R

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.83-97

Keywords: Masculinity, (Im)politeness, Interpersonal male-male communication, Social variables, American English

The Performative Traditions of Kutiyattam and the Biting Satire of Bhagavadajjukam: Fusion to the Fore

Author: K Geethanadani and Akaitab Mukherjee

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.98-105

Keywords: Kutiyattam, Prahasana, Bhagavadajjukam, Mahendravarman, Pragya pravesham

Saga of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Novels: The Dog Stars and Bird Box

Author: Saranya R and Evangeline Priscilla B

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.106-116

Keywords: Post-apocalyptic, Catastrophe, Survival strategies, Gender analysis, Human resilience

Teaching English in Rural and Semi-Urban India: Challenges and Solutions

Author: Vijay Kumar Roy

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.117-125

Keywords: Challenges for the teachers, Urban and rural divide, NEP 2020, Professional development

Archives


Volume 20, Issue 2, April-June 2025
Displacement and Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Author: Komal and Devendra Kumar Sharma

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.5-18

Keywords: Displacement, Trauma, Culture, Alienation, Homeland, Hostland, Diaspora communities

Revisiting Epistemic Injustice: Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Author: Sheetal Devi and Vandana Sharma

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.19-29

Keywords: Hermeneutical injustice, Testimonial injustice, Biopolitical, Global environmental catastrophes and nutmeg

Gendered Childhood: Conflict, Agency and Cross-Dressing in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Victory Song and Ranjit Lal’s The Battle for No. 19

Author: Sapna Desai

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.30-44

Keywords: New Indian women, Gender, Children’s literature, Cross-dressing, Feminist literature

Subjects of Story: Women’s Voices and Storytelling in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Author: Harsha A U S and Aysha Swapna K A

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.45-52

Keywords: Storytelling, Polyphony, Feminism, Women’s voices, Subjectivity

Tagore’s Chokher Bali: An Exposition of Binodini’s Mental Landscape

Author: Farhana Yeasmin and Munibur Rahman

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.53-66

Keywords: Binodini’s dynamism, Controlling capacity, Mental landscape, Orthodox society, Self-restraint

Wombs for Rent: Reproductive Labor and Capitalism in Amulya Malladi’s A House for Happy Mothers

Author: Suganya C and Vijayakumar M**

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.67-77

Keywords: Bio-economical exploitation, Commodification of womb, Intended parents, Marxism, Surrogate mothers, SRA, 2021

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Indian Nationalism and Culture: A Postcolonial Perspective

Author: Shweta Saxena

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.78-88

Keywords: Hegemony, National education, Religion, Hinduism, Passive resistance

Multimodal Mediations in Traversing Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

Author: Tania Mary Vivera

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.89-95

Keywords: Multimodality, Multimodal novels, Cognitive dissonance, Cognitive narratology, Postmodern narrative labyrinth

Women’s Voices in Kabir’s Oral and Performative Traditions in North India

Author: Veeru Rajbhar, Sanjay Kumar and Ajit K Mishra

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.96-113

Keywords: Kabir-singing, Kabirpanth, Oral traditions, Performative traditions, Women singers

What Makes Indian Campus Fiction a Bestselling Genre: An Exploration of Its Language and Themes

Author: Rima Namhata

Published Online: June, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.2.114-152

Keywords: Indian campus fiction, Theme framework analysis, Bestsellers, Language-use, Themes