May 2014

Landscape: Psychological, geographical and cultural nexuses

Through the different forms of landscape, the writers of South Asia render their texts with an indigenous flavour as well as a universal one. This paper aims to unearth the South Asian novels, Noor and Ladies Coupe with reference to the geographical, psychological and cultural landscape in these works of fiction. The paper will explore the psychological nexuses of landscape with reference to Sorayya Khan’s novel,...

Author(s): Sadia Riaz Sehole

May 2014

A web-based English to Yoruba noun-phrases machine translation system

The field of natural language processing enables machines to read and understand the languages human being speaks. There are three major languages in Nigeria: YorÌ€ubá, Igbo and Hausa. YorÌ€ubá, a major Nigeria language spoken by over fifty million people which has the potentials of serving as medium for scientific and technological development deserves more recognition than it is in Nigeria today....

Author(s): Abiola O.B, Adetunmbi A.O, Fasiku A.I. and Olatunji K.A

May 2014

Magic realism in Kiran Desai’s novel “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard”

Kiran Desai was born in 1971 and educated in India, England and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Salman Rushdie's anthology Mirrorwork: Fifty years of Indian Writing. In 2006 Desai won the MAN Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. Kiran Desai depicts the contemporary...

Author(s): Ritu Sharma