Ravichandran Vengadasamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 292261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravichandran Vengadasamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravichandran |
| FAMILY NAME | Vengadasamy |
| SIGNATURE | VENGADASAMY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Malaysia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Systematic Literature Review on China’s Image in News Discourse Studies
To better understand how China’s image is represented in global news discourse, this study systematically reviews and examines existing studies on the topic. Following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, this study employed Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus to retrieve relevant articles published between 2015 and 2024. Through content analysis, this study identified six themes reflecting China…
The Flavours of Migration
The concept of resilience in diasporic contexts emphasises how individuals and groups deploy cultural traditions and adaptive tactics to confront hurdles and retain their identities in the backdrop of relocation. Masten underscores the power of endurance in adjusting to notable challenges. In a transnational environment, food functions as an important emblem of resilience, where it connects diasporic individuals to their cultural roots and promis…
Trauma, Healing and Narrative in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
Traumatic experiences are often claimed as unspeakable and beyond the reach of language. Nevertheless, literature has always found a way to express these inexpressible pains and depict the traumatic experiences of its characters. Using Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, this study explores trauma narrative within a mixed-race family dealing with the hidden pain of loss in 1970s America. This novel is very detailed in depicting the racial, …
The Construction of Archetypal Hero Identity in Selected Asian American Literary Works
This study examines the construction of hero archetypes in three significant Asian American literary works: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Through the theoretical framework of Yinyang philosophy and Jungian archetypal theory, the analysis explores how these texts develop complex hero figures that navigate between Asian and American cultural spaces. The study inves…
Reimagining Heroes in Selected Asian American Literature Through the Lens of Wuxing
This study applies Chinese Wuxing theory to analyze heroes in Asian American literature, focusing on works by Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-Rae Lee, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. It examines how the five elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—are manifested in character traits and interactions. The research investigates how protagonists embody and balance these elements when facing challenges and conflicts. The study explores how these qualities con…
Koch and al-Attas on Solitary Freedom
Solitude has gained attention lately due to the growing emphasis on mental and emotional health. Freedom is one of the fundamental aspects of solitude. This study comparatively explores the concept of solitary freedom in Bryce Andrews’s ranch memoir through the distinct perspectives of Philip Koch and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas. While literary studies increasingly acknowledge the significance of solitude and its connection to freedom, there re…
Mapping Eileen Chang’s Novels with a Computational Analysis of Themes and Emotions
In the domain of digital humanities, the integration of computational methods with literary studies has opened new approaches to understanding and interpreting literature. This study applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling and sentiment analysis to eight English novels by Chinese-American author Eileen Chang. T he research uncovers seven main themes, reflecting Chang’s focus on women’s lives, cultural intersections, and societal…
Food, Identity, Power and Multicultural Solidarity in Preeta Samarasan’s Tale of a Dreamer’s Son
The role of food from a sociocultural perspective is one that has been increasingly explored in cultural narratives and academic inquiry in the past few decades. In literature, food is used as a tool to evoke the senses and convey meaning about identity, culture, relationships and emotions. Food can be instrumental in shaping personal and cultural identities, community dynamics and embedding ideologies, particularly in culturally diverse societie…
Forging Alternative Resistance Through Empathy in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns
Until recently, Palestinian nonviolent resistance has historically been overshadowed by the narrative of armed and violent resistance. This article contends that the reality of Palestinian resistance is relatively nonviolent and explores alternative nonviolent approaches drawing on Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns. Originally published in 1976 and translated into English in 1985, Khalifeh's novel serves as a blueprint for nonviolent resistance,…
Catharsis of Migrant Mother and Daughter in Preethi Nair’s Gypsy Masala
Catharsis, a concept originally developed by the renowned Greek philosopher Aristotle in his monumental work Poetics, authored in 335 BCE and still influential in contemporary editions, pertains to the audience's purging of fear and pity. Within a transnational framework, the notion of catharsis among migrant mothers and daughters is imbued with the profound release and healing experienced during their shared journeys and challenges, addressing a…
Exploring Feminist Consciousness Through Music in Eileen Chang’s Postcolonial Narratives
The characters, stories, and various issues related to female consciousness discussed in literary texts can serve as a conduit for readers to understand the complex of gender, culture, and identity in postcolonial contexts. This article explores how Chinese-American author Eileen Chang portrays the realization of female consciousness in women from post-colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai through music. Drawing upon the theories of Lucy Green and Marc…
A Bibliometric Analysis of Study on Eileen Chang Using CiteSpace
In the context of literary studies undergoing development, the works of Eileen Chang, a seminal Chinese-American writer, have garnered significant scholarly attention, reflecting her profound impact on modern Chinese literature. The study analyzed publication trends, high-frequency keywords, and the scholarly network, providing insights into the research status of Eileen Chang's works. The analysis revealed a disparity between Chinese and oversea…
The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town
This article investigates the influence of the Peace Corps' salient ideology in Peter Hessler's works focusing on modern China. As a volunteer of the third cohort of the Peace Corps in China, Hessler served in Sichuan province from 1996 to 1998. We argue that the ideological overtones of the Peace Corps programme significantly influence his representation of China and use his memoir River Town as an example. Applying the concepts of the cultural …
The Comprehension of Metaphorical Expressions in Academic Texts by Iraqi EFL Learners
Metaphor is so pervasive in language use that we hardly come across a language situation that does not utilise metaphors. Previous studies revealed that EFL learners face certain difficulties in identifying and understanding metaphors in English comprehension texts in the academic setting. Since the true nature and magnitude of this problem have not been studied thoroughly yet among Iraqi EFL learners, this paper aims to find out their ability to…
Eco-Mysticism in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poetry
Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is a branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and the physical world. Using the Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore the themes of mystical and spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes the theoretical framework of eco-poetry to illuminate the dual ecological and mystical phenomenon, both …
Malaysian Food Culture as a Communal Identity Marker in Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies
Food is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and has been a ubiquitous and prominent element in cultural productions and narratives of cultures around the world. In literature, food is often employed literally and metaphorically to evoke the senses or communicate meaning about the identity, culture, or emotions of people. This article examines the connection between food and cultural identity in multicultural Malaysia as represented in the novel,…
The Other Side of Redwall
Brian Jacques’s Redwall series of anthropomorphic fantasy novels featuring animals divided into the noblebeast and vermin are well-loved, with the medieval images of Redwall Abbey, Mossflower and other noblebeast communities exciting the imagination of its readers. Nevertheless, there exists a binary opposition of the noblebeast and the vermin who are vilified and portrayed as savage and amoral. This article argues that the orientalistic roots of…
The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the definition of home in diasporic Palestinian literature has become a central issue among literary scholars. However, this concept of home has been addressed mainly from a mono-dimensional perspective, that is, either the concrete attachment or the abstract affiliation of home. Based on the significance of the interplay of both dimensions and the lack of focus on the duality of home in previous studies of Pa…
Solitude as an Act of Hedonism in Bryce Andrews’ Badluck Way
This paper argues that the author’s preference for solitude in Bryce Andrew’s Badluck Way is essentially hedonistic in nature. Solitude constitutes human existence and experience. The concept of ‘pain and pleasure’ predicates hedonism. The intersectionality between experiential solitude and hedonism is unfortunately inconceivable despite a plethora of discourse including literature. In numerous literary texts, solitude has been the pivotal entry …
The Philosophy of Nature in the Poetry of Ghulam Sarwar Yousuf and William Wordsworth
This paper is a comparative ecocritical investigation considering the relationship between man and nature in cross-cultural contexts as reflected in the poetry of two great admirers of nature in England and Malaysia: William Wordsworth and Ghulam Sarwar Yousuf. Both poets have composed poetry that strengthens man’s bonds with nature and inspires environmental consciousness. Their nature poetry has been previously studied from different individual…
Colonialist Narrative in a Post-Colonial Era Travel Writing, Into the Heart of Borneo
Travel writings have long served as important points of reference for Western academicians, travellers and those generally associated with the business of conquest and trade. More often than not, these sources of references had depicted the lands and people of the ‘new world,’ usually the East or Africa, as being wild, savage and in dire need of European intervention for the creation of civilized societies. Therefore, it would be of great interes…
Ecoethical Significance of Wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poems
This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept of ‘Ethics’ as one of the components of ecopoetry, which is the new brand of nature poetry and one of the components of ecocriticism which investigates the human-nature relati…
Japanese Dichotomies and the Individual Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki
Japanese indigenous terms such as uchi / soto (inside/outside) and omote / ura (front/back) are common dichotomies employed to understand the differences between expected behaviours associated with group dynamics such as promoting collective harmony rather than individual uniqueness. Haruki Murakami advocates that the Japanese need to move away from these dichotomies in order to embrace the true self and assert an individual voice. This dictum co…
The Marginalisation of Malaysian Texts in the English Language Curriculum and Its Impact on Social Cohesion in Malaysian Classrooms
In this paper, we seek to investigate the place that local literature has been given in Malaysian Education in the English Language Subject for Secondary Schools in Malaysia. We argue that literature engenders a space for the nation to share in the experiences and feelings of groups and situations that might never be encountered directly. It often engages with the realities of a nation through diverse constructions of its history, its realities a…
Process of Decolonization in Nābulyūn fī al-Azhar “Napoleon in Al-Azhar”
This paper examines the decolonization process in Najib Al-Kailani’s novel, Nābulyūn fī al-Azhar ( Napoleon in Al-Azhar -1980). The study explores the ways the colonized react to the colonizers in order regain liberty, freedom, and sovereignty of their land. Decolonization is the reverse process of colonization by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Najib Al-Kailani (1931 – 1995) is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and critic.…
The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town
This article investigates the influence of the Peace Corps' salient ideology in Peter Hessler's works focusing on modern China. As a volunteer of the third cohort of the Peace Corps in China, Hessler served in Sichuan province from 1996 to 1998. We argue that the ideological overtones of the Peace Corps programme significantly influence his representation of China and use his memoir River Town as an example. Applying the concepts of the cultural …
Process of Decolonization in Nābulyūn fī al-Azhar “Napoleon in Al-Azhar”
This paper examines the decolonization process in Najib Al-Kailani’s novel, Nābulyūn fī al-Azhar ( Napoleon in Al-Azhar -1980). The study explores the ways the colonized react to the colonizers in order regain liberty, freedom, and sovereignty of their land. Decolonization is the reverse process of colonization by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Najib Al-Kailani (1931 – 1995) is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and critic.…
The Marginalisation of Malaysian Texts in the English Language Curriculum and Its Impact on Social Cohesion in Malaysian Classrooms
In this paper, we seek to investigate the place that local literature has been given in Malaysian Education in the English Language Subject for Secondary Schools in Malaysia. We argue that literature engenders a space for the nation to share in the experiences and feelings of groups and situations that might never be encountered directly. It often engages with the realities of a nation through diverse constructions of its history, its realities a…
Ecoethical Significance of Wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poems
This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept of ‘Ethics’ as one of the components of ecopoetry, which is the new brand of nature poetry and one of the components of ecocriticism which investigates the human-nature relati…
Japanese Dichotomies and the Individual Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki
Japanese indigenous terms such as uchi / soto (inside/outside) and omote / ura (front/back) are common dichotomies employed to understand the differences between expected behaviours associated with group dynamics such as promoting collective harmony rather than individual uniqueness. Haruki Murakami advocates that the Japanese need to move away from these dichotomies in order to embrace the true self and assert an individual voice. This dictum co…
Colonialist Narrative in a Post-Colonial Era Travel Writing, Into the Heart of Borneo
Travel writings have long served as important points of reference for Western academicians, travellers and those generally associated with the business of conquest and trade. More often than not, these sources of references had depicted the lands and people of the ‘new world,’ usually the East or Africa, as being wild, savage and in dire need of European intervention for the creation of civilized societies. Therefore, it would be of great interes…
The Philosophy of Nature in the Poetry of Ghulam Sarwar Yousuf and William Wordsworth
This paper is a comparative ecocritical investigation considering the relationship between man and nature in cross-cultural contexts as reflected in the poetry of two great admirers of nature in England and Malaysia: William Wordsworth and Ghulam Sarwar Yousuf. Both poets have composed poetry that strengthens man’s bonds with nature and inspires environmental consciousness. Their nature poetry has been previously studied from different individual…
Solitude as an Act of Hedonism in Bryce Andrews’ Badluck Way
This paper argues that the author’s preference for solitude in Bryce Andrew’s Badluck Way is essentially hedonistic in nature. Solitude constitutes human existence and experience. The concept of ‘pain and pleasure’ predicates hedonism. The intersectionality between experiential solitude and hedonism is unfortunately inconceivable despite a plethora of discourse including literature. In numerous literary texts, solitude has been the pivotal entry …
The Other Side of Redwall
Brian Jacques’s Redwall series of anthropomorphic fantasy novels featuring animals divided into the noblebeast and vermin are well-loved, with the medieval images of Redwall Abbey, Mossflower and other noblebeast communities exciting the imagination of its readers. Nevertheless, there exists a binary opposition of the noblebeast and the vermin who are vilified and portrayed as savage and amoral. This article argues that the orientalistic roots of…
The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the definition of home in diasporic Palestinian literature has become a central issue among literary scholars. However, this concept of home has been addressed mainly from a mono-dimensional perspective, that is, either the concrete attachment or the abstract affiliation of home. Based on the significance of the interplay of both dimensions and the lack of focus on the duality of home in previous studies of Pa…
Eco-Mysticism in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poetry
Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is a branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and the physical world. Using the Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore the themes of mystical and spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes the theoretical framework of eco-poetry to illuminate the dual ecological and mystical phenomenon, both …
Malaysian Food Culture as a Communal Identity Marker in Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies
Food is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and has been a ubiquitous and prominent element in cultural productions and narratives of cultures around the world. In literature, food is often employed literally and metaphorically to evoke the senses or communicate meaning about the identity, culture, or emotions of people. This article examines the connection between food and cultural identity in multicultural Malaysia as represented in the novel,…
The Comprehension of Metaphorical Expressions in Academic Texts by Iraqi EFL Learners
Metaphor is so pervasive in language use that we hardly come across a language situation that does not utilise metaphors. Previous studies revealed that EFL learners face certain difficulties in identifying and understanding metaphors in English comprehension texts in the academic setting. Since the true nature and magnitude of this problem have not been studied thoroughly yet among Iraqi EFL learners, this paper aims to find out their ability to…
Forging Alternative Resistance Through Empathy in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns
Until recently, Palestinian nonviolent resistance has historically been overshadowed by the narrative of armed and violent resistance. This article contends that the reality of Palestinian resistance is relatively nonviolent and explores alternative nonviolent approaches drawing on Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns. Originally published in 1976 and translated into English in 1985, Khalifeh's novel serves as a blueprint for nonviolent resistance,…
Catharsis of Migrant Mother and Daughter in Preethi Nair’s Gypsy Masala
Catharsis, a concept originally developed by the renowned Greek philosopher Aristotle in his monumental work Poetics, authored in 335 BCE and still influential in contemporary editions, pertains to the audience's purging of fear and pity. Within a transnational framework, the notion of catharsis among migrant mothers and daughters is imbued with the profound release and healing experienced during their shared journeys and challenges, addressing a…
Exploring Feminist Consciousness Through Music in Eileen Chang’s Postcolonial Narratives
The characters, stories, and various issues related to female consciousness discussed in literary texts can serve as a conduit for readers to understand the complex of gender, culture, and identity in postcolonial contexts. This article explores how Chinese-American author Eileen Chang portrays the realization of female consciousness in women from post-colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai through music. Drawing upon the theories of Lucy Green and Marc…
A Bibliometric Analysis of Study on Eileen Chang Using CiteSpace
In the context of literary studies undergoing development, the works of Eileen Chang, a seminal Chinese-American writer, have garnered significant scholarly attention, reflecting her profound impact on modern Chinese literature. The study analyzed publication trends, high-frequency keywords, and the scholarly network, providing insights into the research status of Eileen Chang's works. The analysis revealed a disparity between Chinese and oversea…
The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town
This article investigates the influence of the Peace Corps' salient ideology in Peter Hessler's works focusing on modern China. As a volunteer of the third cohort of the Peace Corps in China, Hessler served in Sichuan province from 1996 to 1998. We argue that the ideological overtones of the Peace Corps programme significantly influence his representation of China and use his memoir River Town as an example. Applying the concepts of the cultural …
The Flavours of Migration
The concept of resilience in diasporic contexts emphasises how individuals and groups deploy cultural traditions and adaptive tactics to confront hurdles and retain their identities in the backdrop of relocation. Masten underscores the power of endurance in adjusting to notable challenges. In a transnational environment, food functions as an important emblem of resilience, where it connects diasporic individuals to their cultural roots and promis…
Trauma, Healing and Narrative in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
Traumatic experiences are often claimed as unspeakable and beyond the reach of language. Nevertheless, literature has always found a way to express these inexpressible pains and depict the traumatic experiences of its characters. Using Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, this study explores trauma narrative within a mixed-race family dealing with the hidden pain of loss in 1970s America. This novel is very detailed in depicting the racial, …
The Construction of Archetypal Hero Identity in Selected Asian American Literary Works
This study examines the construction of hero archetypes in three significant Asian American literary works: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Through the theoretical framework of Yinyang philosophy and Jungian archetypal theory, the analysis explores how these texts develop complex hero figures that navigate between Asian and American cultural spaces. The study inves…
Reimagining Heroes in Selected Asian American Literature Through the Lens of Wuxing
This study applies Chinese Wuxing theory to analyze heroes in Asian American literature, focusing on works by Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-Rae Lee, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. It examines how the five elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—are manifested in character traits and interactions. The research investigates how protagonists embody and balance these elements when facing challenges and conflicts. The study explores how these qualities con…
Koch and al-Attas on Solitary Freedom
Solitude has gained attention lately due to the growing emphasis on mental and emotional health. Freedom is one of the fundamental aspects of solitude. This study comparatively explores the concept of solitary freedom in Bryce Andrews’s ranch memoir through the distinct perspectives of Philip Koch and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas. While literary studies increasingly acknowledge the significance of solitude and its connection to freedom, there re…
Mapping Eileen Chang’s Novels with a Computational Analysis of Themes and Emotions
In the domain of digital humanities, the integration of computational methods with literary studies has opened new approaches to understanding and interpreting literature. This study applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling and sentiment analysis to eight English novels by Chinese-American author Eileen Chang. T he research uncovers seven main themes, reflecting Chang’s focus on women’s lives, cultural intersections, and societal…
Food, Identity, Power and Multicultural Solidarity in Preeta Samarasan’s Tale of a Dreamer’s Son
The role of food from a sociocultural perspective is one that has been increasingly explored in cultural narratives and academic inquiry in the past few decades. In literature, food is used as a tool to evoke the senses and convey meaning about identity, culture, relationships and emotions. Food can be instrumental in shaping personal and cultural identities, community dynamics and embedding ideologies, particularly in culturally diverse societie…
A Systematic Literature Review on China’s Image in News Discourse Studies
To better understand how China’s image is represented in global news discourse, this study systematically reviews and examines existing studies on the topic. Following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, this study employed Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus to retrieve relevant articles published between 2015 and 2024. Through content analysis, this study identified six themes reflecting China…
Art (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Literature (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · History (8 works)