Vandana Saxena
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 384105 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vandana Saxena |
| NOMBRES | Vandana |
| APELLIDO | Saxena |
| FIRMA | SAXENA V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2579-4938 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Mahadevi’s Viraha
This paper explores the theme of viraha and the persona of the virahini in the writings of Mahadevi Varma, a prominent Hindi woman writer of the mid twentieth century. Varma’s poetry focuses on the persona of a virahini—a woman in love, solitary and ready to surrender herself to the intensity of her feelings for her lover. This emotional matrix has earned her the epithet of the ‘modern Mira’. A careful exploration of the indomitable self of Varma…
Commodity mnemonics
This paper introduces the concept of commodity mnemonics to rethink the cultural life of rubber in colonial Malaya. Moving beyond economic histories that chart rubber’s role in global trade and profit, the paper argues that commodities like rubber are not merely objects of exchange but dense carriers of memory, affect and social history. By reading memoirs, colonial fiction and Tamil workers’ songs together, the study traces how rubber becomes a …
Centre for Advanced Research on Addictive Behaviors
Digital wellness and digital technology related addictions have emerged as critical public health research priorities in India, especially given the growing impact of behavioral addiction on youth mental health. The Centre for Advanced Research on Addictive Behaviours (CAR-AB) aims to promote safe digital technology use and enhance digital well-being among Indian youth. CAR-AB was conceptualized at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),…
Ante-victimhood of Atomic Bombing
Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya
This article is an outcome of a search for the Tamil plantation woman in Malaysia and her voice-her stories and memories, in her own words. Through the plantation songs of Tamil workers in Malaysia, first collated and published in the 1980s, we explore the experiences and memories of these women, singing about their lives and work in the Malayan plantations. As memory-work, these songs constitute an oral history that provides an uneasy counter to…
Memory and Nation-Building
Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from perspectives that often clash with each other. Multiple memories of a multicultural nation challenge the idea of a singular national identity and call for multipl…
“Die While I Can Still Remember Who I Am”
In his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng, a contemporary novelist from Malaysia, meditates on the nature of remembering and forgetting, of selective preservation of the past and willful amnesia that constitutes the work of nostalgia and memory. Individual recollections are intertwined with the historical references to give a glimpse of trauma and nostalgia which undercut the discourses of collective history and nation-building in Ma…
Afterlives of colonialism
Noel Barber’s Tanamera plots the story of Singapore during World War II as an adventure and interracial romance. Published in 1981, Tanamera enjoyed immense popularity along with other colonial romances that circulated at the time. This article explores readers’ continuing fascination with the genre of colonial romance. Read in light of the postcolonial theory, the study turns to the way the reading public outside academia responds to the colonia…
Not a Breach, but an Expansion’
Growing Up to Save the World
This paper explores the intricate link between the story of Christ and the contemporary constructions of adolescence boyhood through a careful study of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Though the success of the series can be seen in terms of the general trend of the resurfacing of religion in the current world order, the paper argues that the series attempts to revise and reconfigure the scriptural narrative by integrating the themes of boyhoo…
Malaysian literature in English
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Growing Up to Save the World
This paper explores the intricate link between the story of Christ and the contemporary constructions of adolescence boyhood through a careful study of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Though the success of the series can be seen in terms of the general trend of the resurfacing of religion in the current world order, the paper argues that the series attempts to revise and reconfigure the scriptural narrative by integrating the themes of boyhoo…
Not a Breach, but an Expansion’
“Die While I Can Still Remember Who I Am”
In his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng, a contemporary novelist from Malaysia, meditates on the nature of remembering and forgetting, of selective preservation of the past and willful amnesia that constitutes the work of nostalgia and memory. Individual recollections are intertwined with the historical references to give a glimpse of trauma and nostalgia which undercut the discourses of collective history and nation-building in Ma…
Afterlives of colonialism
Noel Barber’s Tanamera plots the story of Singapore during World War II as an adventure and interracial romance. Published in 1981, Tanamera enjoyed immense popularity along with other colonial romances that circulated at the time. This article explores readers’ continuing fascination with the genre of colonial romance. Read in light of the postcolonial theory, the study turns to the way the reading public outside academia responds to the colonia…
Memory and Nation-Building
Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from perspectives that often clash with each other. Multiple memories of a multicultural nation challenge the idea of a singular national identity and call for multipl…
Malaysian literature in English
Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya
This article is an outcome of a search for the Tamil plantation woman in Malaysia and her voice-her stories and memories, in her own words. Through the plantation songs of Tamil workers in Malaysia, first collated and published in the 1980s, we explore the experiences and memories of these women, singing about their lives and work in the Malayan plantations. As memory-work, these songs constitute an oral history that provides an uneasy counter to…
Mahadevi’s Viraha
This paper explores the theme of viraha and the persona of the virahini in the writings of Mahadevi Varma, a prominent Hindi woman writer of the mid twentieth century. Varma’s poetry focuses on the persona of a virahini—a woman in love, solitary and ready to surrender herself to the intensity of her feelings for her lover. This emotional matrix has earned her the epithet of the ‘modern Mira’. A careful exploration of the indomitable self of Varma…
Commodity mnemonics
This paper introduces the concept of commodity mnemonics to rethink the cultural life of rubber in colonial Malaya. Moving beyond economic histories that chart rubber’s role in global trade and profit, the paper argues that commodities like rubber are not merely objects of exchange but dense carriers of memory, affect and social history. By reading memoirs, colonial fiction and Tamil workers’ songs together, the study traces how rubber becomes a …
Centre for Advanced Research on Addictive Behaviors
Digital wellness and digital technology related addictions have emerged as critical public health research priorities in India, especially given the growing impact of behavioral addiction on youth mental health. The Centre for Advanced Research on Addictive Behaviours (CAR-AB) aims to promote safe digital technology use and enhance digital well-being among Indian youth. CAR-AB was conceptualized at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),…
Ante-victimhood of Atomic Bombing
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