Natassja B Gunasena
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natassja B Gunasena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natassja B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunasena |
| SIGNATURE | GUNASENA N B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Specter of Blackness: Queering Sudanese Masculinities in the Black Atlantic
This article reads the life and work of British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Game of Thrones , Shantaram ) alongside the 1966 English translation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North . Tracing the abstraction and obfuscation of Blackness in public and scholarly imaginaries, this essay suggests we use the literatures and theories of the Black Atlantic-with their richly fluid repertoi…
Something Like Kali and Durga Must've Rocked: Sri Lankan Femininity and the Poetics of Diaspora
Reading feminist scholarship, ethnographic work, poetry, and personal narrative together, this essay charts a Sri Lankan "poetics of diaspora" to trouble the perceived gap between national and diasporic, Afro and Asian, feminine and transgressive. In so doing, this essay attempts to craft an interdisciplinary reading praxis that accounts for the complexities of Sri Lankan female subjectivity both nationally and diasporically
Something Like Kali and Durga Must've Rocked: Sri Lankan Femininity and the Poetics of Diaspora
Reading feminist scholarship, ethnographic work, poetry, and personal narrative together, this essay charts a Sri Lankan "poetics of diaspora" to trouble the perceived gap between national and diasporic, Afro and Asian, feminine and transgressive. In so doing, this essay attempts to craft an interdisciplinary reading praxis that accounts for the complexities of Sri Lankan female subjectivity both nationally and diasporically
Something Like Kali and Durga Must've Rocked: Sri Lankan Femininity and the Poetics of Diaspora
Reading feminist scholarship, ethnographic work, poetry, and personal narrative together, this essay charts a Sri Lankan "poetics of diaspora" to trouble the perceived gap between national and diasporic, Afro and Asian, feminine and transgressive. In so doing, this essay attempts to craft an interdisciplinary reading praxis that accounts for the complexities of Sri Lankan female subjectivity both nationally and diasporically
The Specter of Blackness: Queering Sudanese Masculinities in the Black Atlantic
This article reads the life and work of British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Game of Thrones , Shantaram ) alongside the 1966 English translation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North . Tracing the abstraction and obfuscation of Blackness in public and scholarly imaginaries, this essay suggests we use the literatures and theories of the Black Atlantic-with their richly fluid repertoi…
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)