INTERLOCUTOR

Interlocutor

Peer-reviewed Journal of the Department of English
The Bhawanipur Education Society College
ISSN: 2583-7915 (Online)

Open Access Journal

INTERLOCUTOR

Volume 4
December, 2025
ISSN: 2583-7915 (Online)

Editorial Note

The Editorial Board and the Editorial Team
Department of English
The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata

Page No: i-v

Special Lecture Series, Chapter 2: Transcript
Imag(in)ing Resistance: Dalit Art in Mithila’s Visual Canon

Dr. Sandali Thakur

Page No: 1-15

Cinematic Resistance: The First Wedding as a Protest Narrative against Heteronormativity

Jude Fernandes

Page No: 16-19

Unlocking the Power of Humour: Re-defining Resistance in Select Diaries and Weblogs of Iraqi Women

Dr. Somedutta Mukherjee

Page No: 20-30

Looking against the Phenomenology of Being: Analysing Ben Jelloun’s This Blinding Absence of Light as a Tale of Resistance

Sudesna Roy

Page No: 31-38

Buddhists in Bengal and Folk Gods Who Became Buddhas: An Overview of Antaja Conversion in Pre-colonial Bengal from an Ambedkarite Perspective

Titas Choudhury

Page No: 39-51

Cinematic Battlegrounds: Hermeneutics, 5GW, and Interpretive Pluralism in Contemporary Indian Film and Media

Rubaiya Nasrin

Page No: 52-63

Women, Children, and Machines: State Power, Resistance, and Gender in Japanese Mangas

Srijita Banerjee

Page No: 64-74

“With a Pure Indignation”: Fiction, Fictionalisation and the Subtle Resistance of The Accusation

Dipanwita Sen

Page No: 75-85

A ‘New Way of Living’: Exploring the Complex Dynamics of Queer Counterculture in Vijay Dan Detha’s “A Double Life”

Ashmita Biswas

Page No: 86-94

Resisting the Spectacle: Masked Realities and Rebellious Future in the Speculative Worlds of Samit Basu

Srishti Khare

Page No: 95-103

Reinterpreting Myth and Memory in Alternative Theatre Spaces: A Tale of Heisnam Sabitri and Teejan Bai

Divyangana Mondal

Page No: 104-114

Water Wars and Eco-dystopia: Re-reading Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri

Sayan Chatterjee

Page No: 115-121

Nationalisms in Context: Somnath Batabyal’s Red River

Abantika Dev Ray

Page No: 122-128

Recording Resistance: Gauhar Jaan, Gramophone, and Gendered Cultural Labour in Colonial India

Puja Saha

Page No: 129-136

Countering the Spectacle: The Sundarban Tiger beyond Binaries in Soharab Hossen’s Gang Baghini

Pritam Moni

Page No: 137-148

“Imagination, Life is Your Creation”: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representations in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023)

Adiptya Mukherjee

Page No: 149-162

Urban Space, Dystopia, Consumerism and Hyperreality: Reading Satire as Resistance in Appupen’s Aspyrus

Srijani Dutta

Page No: 163-165

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