Special Issue: Female Literary Characters and Female Social Identities

ARCHANA MALIK/ Philosophy of Love and Devotion with Reference to Indian Female Saint Muktabai and Mirabai 1

ZIYAN YANG/ “Yan” and “Li”: Two Types of Female Beauty in the Period of Transition from Traditional to Modern Chinese Society 23   

HUIYI BAO/ Claustrophilia, Claustrophobia，and Locale Fatale: The Spatial Poetics of The Monk 37

CHUN LIU/ Weaving Her Muthos: Helen in Book 4 of the Odyssey 49

KAJAL CHAUDHARY & SHIVANI VASHIST/ Exploring “New Woman” in the Translated works of Ashapurna Devi and Suchitra Bhattacharya 61

ASHIM SHIL & CHANDRIKA BASHU MAJUMBER/ Genealogy of Women’s Property Rights and Political Thought: A Feminist Critique of Theoreticians from the Ancient World through Modern Times 69

YIXUAN LIU, RAY WANG & JOHN Z. DING/ Reexaminations of Translators’ Visibility and Subjectivity from the Perspectives of Feminist Translation theory 79       
 

Book Review

YEYAN GAO/ Li Jikai et al., Modern Silk Road Literature in Cultural Perspective 121
 

Special Issue: East-West Literature in the Perspective of Cultural Crossvergence

Jikai Li/ Guest Editor’s Introduction  1

Articles

JIKAI LI/ Cultural Crossvergence and Modern Chinese Literature  3

YANQIU ZHAO/ Chinese Realism: From Importation and integration to independent Development  15              
 

QUANGEN WANG/ Juvenile Literature in the light of Cultural Exchange and Mutual Learning between China and the West  29

WEI HAN & ZHIFENG REN/ Postcolonial, Intellectual and Identity: Three Aspects of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel  35
 

PIETRO GIORDAN/ (Narrating) Time(s) East and West: An Interdisciplinary Comparative Approach to Wang Xiaobo’s Time Trilogy   47

XIANRONG QIAO/ Crossing the Verge of World Literature: Misinterpreting of Early Chinese Baojuan (or Precious Scroll)  61

XU SUN/ Cultural Crossvergence: Theory, Practice, and Significance in Contemporary China  69

SHUTING KOU/ Wenxin Diaolong in the Historical Works of Chinese Literature in Modern Japan  87

Review Article

JIE MA/ The Theoretical Construct and Academic Practice of “Cultural Running-in”: A Research Overview   99

Book Review

JIKAI LI/ Liu Yong & Li Chunyu:  Intellectual Writer and Intellectual Scholar: Wang Furen and His Study of Lu Xun 103    
 

Articles

JOSEF SEIFERT/ “Linguistic Analysis” and Clarification of Terms as Tools for Understanding “Things Themselves” 1

YANG YE/ “Making It Strange”: The Travel Writings of Wang Siren 9

HUIMIN JIN/ Postmodernism in the 21st Century Pros and Cons  19

AKIYOSHI SUZUKI/ Transcending the Gap between American and Japanese Thoughts: A Cross-cultural Reading of Haruki Murakami’s and Truman Capote’s Literary Texts  31

ALOK KUMAR/ Existentialist Vedanta: Reading Vivekananda with Camus  45

A. BALAKRISHNAN/ Caste Slavery: Restructuring and Implications in Kerala Society 57

R. K. ROSHNI RAJ LAKSHMI/ Stoicism in Yoga Text  69   

               
SUBHAM MUKHERJEE & ARUNIMA GHOSH/ Anti-colonial Intellectualism and the Privilege of Discourse: Identifying Colonial Proliferations and Ideological Complicity in George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant (1936)  81

PROSENJIT RAY/ Subaltern Renaissance: Thakur Panchanan Barma & Rajbanshi Society 97