Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
Vol 7 No 2 (2017): Issued in September 2017

The Strange Case of Billy Biswas: Two conflicting realities

Bikki Anupama (Associate Professor, English, Dept. S&H Kallam Haranadha Reddy Institute of Technology, Guntur. Andhra Pradesh. India.)
Mantri Venkata Raghu Ram (Professor & Head, English Dept. S&H, VVIT, Nambur, Guntur. AP, India.)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2017

Abstract

Arun Joshi presents socio-cultural conflicts between two different societies. One society is material driven and backed by the modern state apparatus like police, courts, etc. while the other is subsistence driven and is at the bottom in the hierarchy of the modern state. Indian tribal societies have been exploited right from the colonial period into the post-independence times. These two societies differ as follows: the tribal society lives on subsistence looks at Nature as a space for socio-economic, political, cultural and community, while the urban materialistic world perceives Nature as a resource to be exploited. This primordial difference has manifested as a socio-cultural conflict between these two societies. This may be due to the mutually exclusive and incorrigible nature of their social constructs which trigger perceptual obfuscation of symbiotic living.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jefl

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) is a peer reviewed and open access journal on teaching and learning English as a foreign and second language. The journal follows a double blind review policy. The primary objective of this journal is to publish research based articles that delve into ...