Chitra Sankaran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76031 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chitra Sankaran |
| NOMBRES | Chitra |
| APELLIDO | Sankaran |
| FIRMA | SANKARAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5200-3153 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1952 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences that may occur in the future. Thus, these become cautionary tales that warn about current and historical hum…
Forests and ecocultural disequilibrium in two postcolonial novels from Cameroon and Singapore
Forests have always had a very special resonance with humans, one which is evidenced in the ways they are depicted in literatures and art throughout human civilization. This study attempts to look at the ways in which two contemporary authors, one Cameroonian and the other Singaporean, depict the forest in their novels. In both Linus Asong’s Crown of Thorns and Meira Chand’s A Different Sky, the nature/culture binary is shown as primal. Both narr…
Materiality, Devotion and Compromise
If religions can be considered as "devotional houses," then engaging with their materiality becomes an important way of understanding how people inhabit these houses and live their lives inside them. This is particularly pertinent to Hinduism since the different material cultures that the Hindus have constructed over millennia have helped to keep their belief systems alive. One such contemporary mediation is through films that are seen as dissemi…
Women, rivers, and serpents
Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra has been variously regarded as a philosophical treatise on the nature of love; as a description of the various sub-cultures within India, or sometimes even as mere entertainment – a light read. Few reviews or studies have ventured to examine the distinctively gendered nature of the narrative. This article attempts to uncover the subtle but persistent “sutra” that affirms the feminine principle throughout. The tales, bea…
From Pedagogy to Activism
Accepted as a pro-woman organisation, Singapore's longest established women's association, the Association for Women's Action and Research (AWARE), has operated for 25 years under the watchful eye of the authorities in Singapore. Despite its systematic interventions on behalf of women, it never enjoyed a high national profile. In March 2009, however, all this changed. A right wing religious group staged a take-over and brought AWARE to the attent…
Religion and the South Asian diaspora
In the expansive manner in which ‘diaspora’ has come to be employed, the centrality of religion in the ‘classical’ understanding of the concept has been subsumed under categories such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘culture’. Yet even as religious practices and beliefs undergo transformation in the diaspora, studies of South Asian emigrant groups show that religion remains a key marker of community identity – its pivotal role invigorated by the contemporary …
Transnational Tamil television and diasporic imaginings
The dynamics of globalization and digitization are not only shaping a new media order but also making significant impacts on the cultural dimensions of an older societal order in the case of the Tamil Diaspora. The emerging transnational phenomenon of Tamil television challenges constructed boundaries, contests traditionally homogenized spaces such as those of nation and homeland, questions the principle of territoriality and opens up the sphere …
Negotiating Crisis in a Feminism Classroom
Raja Rao's Mantra
Book reviewed in this article: Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. (ed.), Word As Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao
Misogyny in Raja Rao's the Chessmaster and his Moves
10.1177/002198949503000109
Patterns of Story-telling in R. K. Narayan's The Guide
Phonemics of Old Tamil
Transnational Tamil television and diasporic imaginings
The dynamics of globalization and digitization are not only shaping a new media order but also making significant impacts on the cultural dimensions of an older societal order in the case of the Tamil Diaspora. The emerging transnational phenomenon of Tamil television challenges constructed boundaries, contests traditionally homogenized spaces such as those of nation and homeland, questions the principle of territoriality and opens up the sphere …
Forests and ecocultural disequilibrium in two postcolonial novels from Cameroon and Singapore
Forests have always had a very special resonance with humans, one which is evidenced in the ways they are depicted in literatures and art throughout human civilization. This study attempts to look at the ways in which two contemporary authors, one Cameroonian and the other Singaporean, depict the forest in their novels. In both Linus Asong’s Crown of Thorns and Meira Chand’s A Different Sky, the nature/culture binary is shown as primal. Both narr…
Women, rivers, and serpents
Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra has been variously regarded as a philosophical treatise on the nature of love; as a description of the various sub-cultures within India, or sometimes even as mere entertainment – a light read. Few reviews or studies have ventured to examine the distinctively gendered nature of the narrative. This article attempts to uncover the subtle but persistent “sutra” that affirms the feminine principle throughout. The tales, bea…
Phonemics of Old Tamil
Patterns of Story-telling in R. K. Narayan's The Guide
Misogyny in Raja Rao's the Chessmaster and his Moves
10.1177/002198949503000109
Raja Rao's Mantra
Book reviewed in this article: Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. (ed.), Word As Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao
Negotiating Crisis in a Feminism Classroom
Religion and the South Asian diaspora
In the expansive manner in which ‘diaspora’ has come to be employed, the centrality of religion in the ‘classical’ understanding of the concept has been subsumed under categories such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘culture’. Yet even as religious practices and beliefs undergo transformation in the diaspora, studies of South Asian emigrant groups show that religion remains a key marker of community identity – its pivotal role invigorated by the contemporary …
Transnational Tamil television and diasporic imaginings
The dynamics of globalization and digitization are not only shaping a new media order but also making significant impacts on the cultural dimensions of an older societal order in the case of the Tamil Diaspora. The emerging transnational phenomenon of Tamil television challenges constructed boundaries, contests traditionally homogenized spaces such as those of nation and homeland, questions the principle of territoriality and opens up the sphere …
Women, rivers, and serpents
Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra has been variously regarded as a philosophical treatise on the nature of love; as a description of the various sub-cultures within India, or sometimes even as mere entertainment – a light read. Few reviews or studies have ventured to examine the distinctively gendered nature of the narrative. This article attempts to uncover the subtle but persistent “sutra” that affirms the feminine principle throughout. The tales, bea…
From Pedagogy to Activism
Accepted as a pro-woman organisation, Singapore's longest established women's association, the Association for Women's Action and Research (AWARE), has operated for 25 years under the watchful eye of the authorities in Singapore. Despite its systematic interventions on behalf of women, it never enjoyed a high national profile. In March 2009, however, all this changed. A right wing religious group staged a take-over and brought AWARE to the attent…
Materiality, Devotion and Compromise
If religions can be considered as "devotional houses," then engaging with their materiality becomes an important way of understanding how people inhabit these houses and live their lives inside them. This is particularly pertinent to Hinduism since the different material cultures that the Hindus have constructed over millennia have helped to keep their belief systems alive. One such contemporary mediation is through films that are seen as dissemi…
Forests and ecocultural disequilibrium in two postcolonial novels from Cameroon and Singapore
Forests have always had a very special resonance with humans, one which is evidenced in the ways they are depicted in literatures and art throughout human civilization. This study attempts to look at the ways in which two contemporary authors, one Cameroonian and the other Singaporean, depict the forest in their novels. In both Linus Asong’s Crown of Thorns and Meira Chand’s A Different Sky, the nature/culture binary is shown as primal. Both narr…
Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences that may occur in the future. Thus, these become cautionary tales that warn about current and historical hum…
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