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Kumar, Amitava

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“…In the process, he had a vision of Naipaul's successive homes, especially the two Naipaul inhabited in the formative early years. Mr. Biswas lives in a comic position because he is unfamiliar to the familiar world (Garebian, 1984;Hayward, 2002;Kumar, 2002). A House for Mr. Biswas projects the struggle of the settlers through the lens of creolization, a process of settling by establishing control over the indigenous people of an area-to gain a better understanding of Biswas's characterization.…”

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“…Biswas, published in 1961, is about a Trinidadian Hindu whose greatest desire is to own his own home. The novel is mainly concerned with Naipaul's journey in quest of the personal community beyond the alienating effects of colonialism (Garebian, 1984;Kumar, 2002). It is replete with the life story of the author's father, and hence, some biographical elements from.…”

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Alienation and Fragmentation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Shrivastwa

2022

KMC J.

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This paper seeks to examine the issues of alienation, fragmentation, and the predicament of identity experienced by Mohun Biswas, the protagonist in V.S. Naipaul’s novel, A House for Mr. Biswas, from the perspective of post-colonialism. To uncover how Naipaul grapples with issues of post-colonialism such as dislocation, identity crisis, and longing for a sense of belonging in an alien world, the research tool taken for the investigation is post-colonialism, with special reference to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha, and Leela Gandhi. The research design used for the analysis is textual analysis. The principal finding is that Mr. Biswas, a representative of the novelist’s voice, resides in an alienated situation within his own community, despite the fact that he is physically residing with them. The paper focuses on key terms of postcolonial literature such as dislocation, identity crisis, and diaspora to diagnose the character’s attitudes towards the alienated lifestyle. The readers and scholars interested in researching diaspora literature in future are expected to take the paper as a reference.

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Alienation and Fragmentation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Shrivastwa

2022

KMC J.

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“…While many have commended her for moving away from the previous generations' narratives of assimilation or representations of ghettoized ethnic existences (Kumar, 2002;Aubeeluck, 2006;Shea, 2008;Alfonso-Forero, 2011) and earlier forms of gender or racial politics (Zare, 2007;Kasun, 2009;Roy, 2010;Kemper, 2011;Dutt-Ballerstadt, 2012;Dhingra, 2012;Hai, 2012), some have criticized her works for their failure to decentralize and deconstruct previously established stereotype-based hierarchies of power (Ganguly, 2001;Bhatt, 2003;Lynn, 2004). Kemper (2011), for instance, credited Lahiri with creating original and challenging characters, her fiction thus being free of "characters that fill cliché archetypes such as the dominating, rich white man and the traditional [subservient] Indian" (p. 11).…”

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Nihilation of Femininity in the Battle of Looks: A Sartrean Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter”

Asl

Hull

Abdullah

2016

GEMA

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The panoptic gaze is vested in with a constitutive impact upon the subjectivity of individuals. Feminist scholars like Luce Irigaray have charged that the metaphor of vision is intimately connected with the construction of gender and sexual difference. By pointing to the masculine logic of Western thought, Irigaray confirms that a woman's entry into a dominant scopic economy signifies her inevitable confinement to passivity. This essay aims to examine the sexual politics of metaphors of vision in a literary text that is controversially argued to be a voice for the subordinated Indian immigrant women in the US. As one of the most influential schools of thought in Western philosophy, the Sartrean paradigm of sexual difference is employed to investigate this allegation by identifying the latent binary system at work in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri, who has garnered substantial yet controversial critical attention over her representations of gender. Specifically, this essay focuses on Lahiri's prefatory story to her Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (2000), to unravel the manner her exercise of vision in this narrative perpetuates the dichotomies of a male subject and a female object pre-established in the traditional hierarchies of gender in the West. In this story, Lahiri (un)wittingly privileges masculinity over femininity and reduces the latter to a typically disgusting Sartrean female body of holes and slime. Hence, notwithstanding infrequent emasculated images of the male subject, it is ultimately the masculine that, in the battle of looks between male and female, nihilates the Other to the state of "being-in-itself" and enjoys supremacy over the feminine.

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“…[3,4] The global market for adsorbent materials has been estimated to be roughly $11.1 billion in 2019, 38 and 32% higher than that in 2013 ($8.0 billion) and 2014 ($8.4 billion), respectively (BCC Research). [5] Under such circumstances, the accelerating global demand for clean energy and environmental sustainability urges scientists and engineers to develop advanced adsorbent materials with superior performance over traditional benchmark materials. [6] Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which are formed through pervasive coordination bonds between metal cations and organic ligands, are believed to be the next-generation adsorbent materials.…”

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“…Nowadays, traditional adsorbent materials such as zeolites and activated carbon dominate petrochemical industry with wide applications in CO 2 capture, olefin separation, natural gas upgrading, biofuel production, water purification and production, etc . The global market for adsorbent materials has been estimated to be roughly $11.1 billion in 2019, 38 and 32% higher than that in 2013 ($8.0 billion) and 2014 ($8.4 billion), respectively (BCC Research) . Under such circumstances, the accelerating global demand for clean energy and environmental sustainability urges scientists and engineers to develop advanced adsorbent materials with superior performance over traditional benchmark materials …”

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CO₂ Capture in Metal–Organic Framework Adsorbents: An Engineering Perspective

Wang

Shah

et al. 2018

Advanced Sustainable Systems

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CO 2 emission has raised worldwide concerns because of its potential effects on climate change, species extinction, and plant nutrition deterioration. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are one class of crystalline adsorbent materials that are believed to be of huge potential in CO 2 capture applications because of their advantages such as ultrahigh porosity, boundless chemical tunability, and surface functionality over traditional porous zeolites and activated carbon. In terms of chemistry, there are already many studies devoted to the synthesis of new functional MOFs. Some of the synthesized MOFs have been evaluated for CO 2 capture at laboratory-scale. Several reviews have been published on this topic, but mainly from a chemistry and materials point of view. In this review, the authors focus on the engineering perspective on this topic, with emphases on material evaluation, performance judgment, and process design to address the engineering issues of these materials to be used as adsorbents in industrial CO 2 capture. The current engineering evaluation approaches for MOFs are summarized, in a manner that could also be applied to other adsorbent materials.

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Alienation and Fragmentation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Alienation and Fragmentation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Nihilation of Femininity in the Battle of Looks: A Sartrean Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter”

CO₂ Capture in Metal–Organic Framework Adsorbents: An Engineering Perspective

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Alienation and Fragmentation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Nihilation of Femininity in the Battle of Looks: A Sartrean Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter”

CO2 Capture in Metal–Organic Framework Adsorbents: An Engineering Perspective

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