Volume IV Special Issue V June 2024

Name of Author : Afreen Sultana

Title of the paper : Emerging Issues in Research in English Literature

Abstract: As the pre -Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus observed, ―There is nothing permanent except change‖. Change is the inevitable law of nature and emerging issues can be seen as proclivity for change. This paper is a specimen of meta-research as it researches on research issues itself. Meta-research is a recent field of research that investigates research practices with the ultimate goal of finding evidence-based improvements. The word research is derived from the Middle French recherche, which means to go about seeking‖. For this investigation, I have tried to compare and analyse the catalogues of proposed researches in the subject of English Literature in prominent Indian universities. The issues include -the investigation of voices which have not been identified yet or suppressed especially in regionalvernacular languages in popular literature of culture, there is an issue of representing voice of women, which has been stifled till now.

Keywords : Meta-Research, Suppressed/Repressed Voices in Regional Narratives, Self and Nation, Critical Studies, Post Modernism, Diaspora.

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Page Number : 70-77