ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives

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ISSN: 3048-6920  DOI: 10.70396

An Indian outlook on the World's Literature is ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives!

India is a land of wisdom and intellectual prowess. The Golden Perspective that Indians have is unique and exclusive. We capture this stream of premium literary intelligence and projects it to the world.

ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives is a peer-reviewed, open-access quarterly e-journal, that is published on the 30th of March, June, September and December. 

We accept research articles and book reviews from Indian academicians, Indian scholars, Indian researchers and Indian faculties of English Literature, English Language and Linguistics.

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Announcements

  • 2026-11-05

    Call for Papers

    CALL FOR PAPERS
    ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives December 2026 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 4)

    ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives invites original research articles, review papers, and scholarly contributions for its forthcoming December 2026 issue.

    ILN Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access quarterly e-journal (ISSN: 3048-6920, DOI: 10.70396/ilnjournal) dedicated to promoting Indian perspectives on global literature. 

    Important Dates:

    Submission Deadline: 25 November 2026

    Acceptance Notification: By 20 December 2026

    Publication Date: 30 December 2026

    We look forward to your valuable scholarly contributions.

  • 2026-09-30

    Just Published

    We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 3 No. 3 (2026): ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives of ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives. We invite you to read and share this work with your scholarly community.

    Many thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editors for their valuable contributions, and to our readers for your continued interest.

  • 2026-06-30

    Just Published

    We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives of ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives. We invite you to read and share this work with your scholarly community.

    Many thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editors for their valuable contributions, and to our readers for your continued interest.

Current Issue

Volume 3, No. 3ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives

Published 30 September 2026

Articles

  1. Sreedevi Reddy (Author)

    Love, Desire, and the 'Consciousness-Raising' in Triveni's Novels: An Analysis of Sothu Geddavalu (She Was Defeated, Had Won)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.01
    150 54

  2. Vaishnavi S, Dr. B.S. Prameela Priadersini (Author)

    Melodies that Build Listening: Enhancing Undergraduate Students’ Listening Comprehension through Popular English Songs

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.02
    197 69

  3. Thommai Michael M, Dr J. Jebaraj Kingsly Zechariah (Author)

    The Ideal I, Ideal Ego, and Ego-Defense Mechanisms: A Lacanian Reading of Clamence in Albert Camus’ The Fall

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.03
    137 57

  4. John Joshua S (Author)

    Transforming Scarcity: Posthuman Subjectivity and Ecological Vulnerability in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve’s Film Adaptation

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.04
    143 61

  5. Dr Abu Farah Hoque (Author)

    Rivers, Memory, and Subaltern Ecologies: Reimagining Rajbanshi Identity in Debesh Roy’s Tistaparer Britantta

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.05
    116 50

  6. P. Antony Maria Jenobhar (Author)

    Fashioning Identity: Material Culture, Cultural Memory, and Self-Representation in Contemporary Indigenous Fashion

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.06
    125 54

  7. Sodanapalli Rakesh, Arvind Nagalla (Author)

    Silence as Narrative Agency: Reconfiguring the Unsaid in Contemporary Indian English Fiction

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.07
    118 47

  8. Dr Aroma Delight Samson, Dr M. Victory Ebenezer (Author)

    War and its Impact on Children: A Study of Nosaka’s “Grave of the Fireflies”

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.08
    142 70

  9. B. Abdul Gaffur, Dr M. Arunachalam (Author)

    Maternal Authority, Cultural Memory, and Identity Formation in Rani Manicka’s The Rice Mother

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.09
    107 39

  10. Genesis J, Dr Jayakanth R (Author)

    Art as a Space of Belonging: The Third Space of Unhomely Homecoming in Roma Tearne’s Mosquito

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.10
    111 45

  11. Sangeetha N, Dr G. Ananthalakshmi (Author)

    Fractured Identities and Cultural Dissonance in Perumal Murugan’s One Part Women and Pyre

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.11
    91 35

  12. Vijayasanthi R, Muruganandan K (Author)

    Between Two Shores: Cultural Adaptation, Hybrid Identity, and the Assertion of Selfhood in Mitali Perkins's Monsoon Summer and You Bring the Distant Near

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.12
    105 30

  13. Bharathidasan J, Dr Amalaveenus J (Author)

    The Price of Being Human: Bodies, Consent, and Survival in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.13
    95 69

  14. V. Tonia Pais, Dr M. Sagaya Sophia (Author)

    Maternal Intertextuality, Diasporic Identity, and Narrative Hybridity in Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.14
    81 43

  15. Jenovia R R (Author)

    Love, Mortality, and the Delicacy of Meaning: A Biblical Reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.15
    91 50

  16. Vimala Ramani V (Author)

    Deciphering the Location: Existential Challenges in a Multicultural Society in Zadie Smith’s NW

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.16
    79 36

  17. Dr R. Celin Diana (Author)

    Women, Identity, and Selfhood: A Comparative Study of Selected Novels by Anita Nair and Margaret Laurence

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.17
    79 30

  18. Meenakshi S, Dr V. Vinod Kumar (Author)

    Memory Politics and Forensic Temporality in Kamila Shamsie’s Selected Works

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.18
    159 39

  19. Godson Roosevelt , Dr. K. Prem Kumar (Author)

    Gender, Narrative Agency, and Testimony: A Feminist Literary Reading of the Samaritan Woman in the Gospel of John

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.19
    101 40

  20. Rudreswar Gogoi, Dr Tilock Ch. Saikia (Author)

    Negotiating Gendered Spaces: Social Discrimination in Birinchi Kumar Barua’s Jivanar Batat

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.20
    90 29

  21. Punitha J, Dr Ruby Merlin I (Author)

    Art as Resistance and Identity Formation in Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.21
    116 28

  22. Sivasankari S (Author)

    Subaltern Speech Acts: Urmila in Kavita Kane’s Sita’s Sister and the Global Discourse of Marginalised Women

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.a.22
    101 27

Book Reviews

  1. Aaloy Gangopadhyay (Author)

    Between Shadow and Meaning: A Review of Dr. Avik Gangopadhyay’s Lees of the Liminal

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.b.01
    85 36

  2. S. Arul Little Snita (Author)

    Review of Debashis Paul’s I have Autism, and I Play Bad Tennis: A Memoir of Noel’s Dad for Noelism

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.b.02
    96 33

  3. C. Deffina Sherin Chellathai (Author)

    Review of Josephine Cox’s Rainbow Days 

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70396/ilnjournal.v3n3.b.03
    82 30