Lecture notes drop box and creative corner of Dr Aswathy Aravindakshan
Reading Time: 6 minutesDance Like a Man is a powerful play by Mahesh Dattani that explores gender roles and social expectations in Indian society. INTRODUCTION The play focuses on Jairaj, a man who wants to become a Bharatanatyam dancer. In his society, dance is often regarded as a feminine art form. His desire challenges traditional ideas of masculinity….
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTomson Highway is a leading Indigenous Canadian writer whose plays, novels, and music explore First Nations life, identity, and resilience shaped by colonial history and residential schools. Through works like The Rez Sisters, he has expanded Canadian literature by centring Indigenous voices, culture, spirituality, and survival. He was born on 6 December 1951 in northwestern…
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Reading Time: 8 minutesThe Rez Sisters is a powerful play that focuses on the lives of seven Indigenous women living on a First Nations reserve in Canada. Blending harsh reality with humour and spirituality, the play explores their struggles, dreams, and resilience. INTRODUCTION The Rez Sisters is a two-act play written by Tomson Highway, a Canadian writer from…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe poem “Canadian Authors Meet” is a sharp satirical criticism of a meeting of Canadian authors. The poet F.R. Scott mocks the participants as fake and self-important First, he describes the authors at the party as unoriginal and self-absorbed. He calls them “expansive puppets” who “percolate self-unction,” meaning they are like controlled dolls soaking in their own smugness….
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrancis Reginald Scott, also known as F. R. Scott, was an important figure in 20th-century Canada. He was both a modern poet and a public thinker. In the 1920s, he co-founded the Montreal Group of poets. This group helped transform Canadian poetry by moving away from Victorian-style nature poems toward modern themes and sharper ideas. By…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Rita Joe’s poem “I Lost My Talk” is evocative and reflects the profound impact of the residential school system on Indigenous language and identity in Canada. The poem opens with the line, “ I lost my talk,” which is also the poem’s title. When the poet says, “I lost my talk,” she means she lost…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rita Joe (1932-2007) was a Canadian poet and songwriter. She is often called the poet laureate of the Mi’kmaq community. Her poems represent her Indigenous identity, and she discusses the residential school system in Canada. Mi’kmaq (Micmac) is the largest of the Native American/First Nations peoples in Canada. Rita’s mother died when she was…
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