Hardev Kaur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3915769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hardev Kaur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hardev |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaur |
| SIGNATURE | KAUR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6979-8370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silence as a spatial practice: Accented epistemology and relational dwelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence
This article examines Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996) by reconceptualising silence as a spatial practice through which migrant subjectivity is produced and negotiated, rather than as absence or trauma. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space and Homi Bhabha’s notion of the Third Space, and adopting an accented epistemological perspective attentive to the politics of intelligibility (Khosravi, 2024), the article c…
The Transformation of Machines From Negative to Positive Otherness in C. Robert Cargill’s Day Zero
This paper examines the transformation of artificially intelligent machines in C. Robert Cargill's Day Zero, tracing their trajectory from disposable “negative otherness” as domestic servants to agential “positive otherness” as posthuman collaborators. Through close reading of key human-robot interactions, particularly the nanny bot Pounce's post-rebellion negotiations with human survivors, the study employs Rosi Braidotti's posthumanism and Fran…
Revisiting Trauma, Ethics, and Identity Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s Home
Symbiotic Co-Becoming: Non-Human Agency and the Fluid Interconnection in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse
This study critically re-evaluates human-robot relations in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse (2011), critiquing anthropocentric frameworks that systematically marginalize non-human entities in posthuman scenarios. Drawing mainly on Neil Badmington, Rosi Braidotti and Francesca Ferrando’s ideas and concepts, it exposes how human characters remain trapped in hierarchical binaries despite posthuman contextual shifts, failing to establish a cross-spe…
Personal Growth and Confinement: A Spatial Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) through the lens of spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, and Gaston Bachelard, focusing on the protagonist Kathy’s growth within spatial and societal constraints. By tracing Kathy’s journey from childhood at Hailsham to disillusioned adulthood, the study examines how her interactions with geographical, social, and psychological spaces shape her evolving self-awareness a…
Translator Behaviour Criticism and Chinese Folk Language Translation: A Case Study of Bronze and Sunflower
The translation of the Chinese folk language plays a vital role in preserving cultural authenticity and shaping the distinctive style of Chinese children’s literature. This study employs Zhou Lingshun’s theory of Translator Behaviour Criticism to examine Helen Wang’s English translation of Cao Wenxuan’s Bronze and Sunflower (2015/2005), with a specific focus on the translation of folk language elements such as dialects, colloquialisms, idioms, an…
The Otherness in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand
In her recent historical fiction, Take My Hand (2022), New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez explores the specific manifestations of post-slavery racism, particularly institutional racism. This is vividly portrayed through the experiences of Civil Townsend, a determined new nurse, who witnesses the systematic denial of reproductive rights and autonomy among impoverished African American females. Due to the novel being published w…
Representing Perpetrator Trauma in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act
The concept of trauma explains a disruptive experience with belated effects that are hardly controlled or mastered. Trauma damages one’s psychology by distorting the sense of self and the perception of the world. However, the application of conventional trauma theories focuses on the pains and sufferings in the victim’s life only. It has been critiqued the reluctance to acknowledge that hurting others may cause some perpetrators to experience psy…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
From “The Snow Child” to “Snow White”: Angela Carter’s Inheritance from Classic Fairy Tales
This article is aimed at developing a Foucauldian power criticism to examine Angela Carter’s inheritance of classic fairy tales. Carter’s “The Snow Child,” inspired by the Grimms’ “Snow White,” has been considered a feminist rewriting in subverting a classic. By establishing a connection between the classic fairy tale “Snow White” and “The Snow Child,” this article examines the two as intertextual in terms of characters and plots, and echoes in t…
In Solidarity With Home: Transculturation as a Reconciliation of African Ethnic Binarism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost
This article examines African binarism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. The concept of binarism encompasses the nostalgic predilection for the homeland yet, the preconception of home depends on the way in which colonial hegemony appears. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to shed light on the latent circumstances which project onto this play, the inherent impetus of this binarism. The focus will be on Aidoo’s conceptualizati…
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction
This study focuses on the metaphorical semantic extension of Hausa visual and auditory perception verbs as portrayed in romance fiction. Hausa language, just like any other language, provides a window into how speakers use language to make sense of the world around them. The study examines how language users attribute abstract concepts, such as thinking and understanding, to sensory experiences of seeing and hearing, drawing on the conceptual met…
Social Stratification As A Catalyst For Xenophobia In Kenneth Maswabi's Poems
This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source of xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is selected and adopted for the purpose of analysis of the texts under study. The purpose of applying postcolonial theory is to appropriately contextualize the text while analyzing it from a postcolonial standpoint. To address the impact of xenophobia an…
Xenophobia and Citizenship in Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing: Citizenship and xenophobia in Meg Vandermerwe's Zebra Crossing
Purpose of the study: In the past two decades several researchers have explored the concern of xenophobia in South African fiction. Studies sought to determine the reasons behind the prevalence of xenophobic violence in South Africa. Previous research on xenophobia claims that xenophobic violence is prevalent in the state is, in fact, due to economic and social reasons only. Yet, this article aims to correct the misconception of the Rainbow Natio…
Self-Immolation in The Extinction of Menai by Chuma Nwokolo
This study explores the concept of self-immolation within the African literary space. It observes how people bear witness to express causes through protests, with their words, action and the self-application of lethal harm. With growing incidences of suicides around the world, self-Immolation remains peculiar generally for its politicization and likening to a sacrifice for a cause, drawing attention to social injustice and giving voice to acts of…
Eco-psychology and The Role of Animals to Heal Trauma in Life of Pi
Psychological trauma brings about adverse effects on affected victims and the manifestations vary from an individual to another. Some of the more common traits identified in trauma victims include extreme anxiety, nightmares, hallucinations and flashbacks; in which there is no specific reference of time on when a victim may start to exhibit these characteristics. In addition, the mode and duration taken for recovery of psychological trauma may al…
Text-close thick translations in two English versions of Laozi
Laozi is the most translated Chinese text. It has profound philosophical thoughts and is written in a pithy style. It is essential to present its cultural, social, and historical contexts to target readers for a deep understanding of Laozi translations. Thick translation, which aims to produce thick contextualized texts, had been adopted by Lin Yutang and Roger Ames & David Hall in Laozi translations. This qualitative study compares text-close th…
From Natural Selection to the Sentient Symphony of Life: A Chaotic Reading of Wertenbaker’s After Darwin
Darwin’s theory of evolution was shaken to the core by the discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy. While it accentuates that the world has evolved from simple to complex, and it moves from disorder to order, the second law preaches the opposite totally. Such inconsistency remains unsolved until the advent of chaos theory, which emphasises that the universe has the capacity to renew itself from within through a process called se…
Critical Review on the Idea of Dystopia
The purpose of this review is firstly to show the formation of dystopia that finds its roots in utopia. Then, the foundation of dystopian fiction from the perspectives of such critics as Chad Walsh, Tom Moylan, Mark R. Hillegas, and Erika Gottlieb, among some others, is investigated. Finally, we briefly reveal the standing of Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don DeLillo, among many other dystopian writers, in depiction of dystopian societies. Th…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
Critical Review on the Idea of Dystopia
The purpose of this review is firstly to show the formation of dystopia that finds its roots in utopia. Then, the foundation of dystopian fiction from the perspectives of such critics as Chad Walsh, Tom Moylan, Mark R. Hillegas, and Erika Gottlieb, among some others, is investigated. Finally, we briefly reveal the standing of Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don DeLillo, among many other dystopian writers, in depiction of dystopian societies. Th…
Critical Review on the Idea of Dystopia
The purpose of this review is firstly to show the formation of dystopia that finds its roots in utopia. Then, the foundation of dystopian fiction from the perspectives of such critics as Chad Walsh, Tom Moylan, Mark R. Hillegas, and Erika Gottlieb, among some others, is investigated. Finally, we briefly reveal the standing of Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don DeLillo, among many other dystopian writers, in depiction of dystopian societies. Th…
From Natural Selection to the Sentient Symphony of Life: A Chaotic Reading of Wertenbaker’s After Darwin
Darwin’s theory of evolution was shaken to the core by the discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy. While it accentuates that the world has evolved from simple to complex, and it moves from disorder to order, the second law preaches the opposite totally. Such inconsistency remains unsolved until the advent of chaos theory, which emphasises that the universe has the capacity to renew itself from within through a process called se…
Text-close thick translations in two English versions of Laozi
Laozi is the most translated Chinese text. It has profound philosophical thoughts and is written in a pithy style. It is essential to present its cultural, social, and historical contexts to target readers for a deep understanding of Laozi translations. Thick translation, which aims to produce thick contextualized texts, had been adopted by Lin Yutang and Roger Ames & David Hall in Laozi translations. This qualitative study compares text-close th…
Xenophobia and Citizenship in Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing: Citizenship and xenophobia in Meg Vandermerwe's Zebra Crossing
Purpose of the study: In the past two decades several researchers have explored the concern of xenophobia in South African fiction. Studies sought to determine the reasons behind the prevalence of xenophobic violence in South Africa. Previous research on xenophobia claims that xenophobic violence is prevalent in the state is, in fact, due to economic and social reasons only. Yet, this article aims to correct the misconception of the Rainbow Natio…
Self-Immolation in The Extinction of Menai by Chuma Nwokolo
This study explores the concept of self-immolation within the African literary space. It observes how people bear witness to express causes through protests, with their words, action and the self-application of lethal harm. With growing incidences of suicides around the world, self-Immolation remains peculiar generally for its politicization and likening to a sacrifice for a cause, drawing attention to social injustice and giving voice to acts of…
Eco-psychology and The Role of Animals to Heal Trauma in Life of Pi
Psychological trauma brings about adverse effects on affected victims and the manifestations vary from an individual to another. Some of the more common traits identified in trauma victims include extreme anxiety, nightmares, hallucinations and flashbacks; in which there is no specific reference of time on when a victim may start to exhibit these characteristics. In addition, the mode and duration taken for recovery of psychological trauma may al…
Social Stratification As A Catalyst For Xenophobia In Kenneth Maswabi's Poems
This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source of xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is selected and adopted for the purpose of analysis of the texts under study. The purpose of applying postcolonial theory is to appropriately contextualize the text while analyzing it from a postcolonial standpoint. To address the impact of xenophobia an…
From “The Snow Child” to “Snow White”: Angela Carter’s Inheritance from Classic Fairy Tales
This article is aimed at developing a Foucauldian power criticism to examine Angela Carter’s inheritance of classic fairy tales. Carter’s “The Snow Child,” inspired by the Grimms’ “Snow White,” has been considered a feminist rewriting in subverting a classic. By establishing a connection between the classic fairy tale “Snow White” and “The Snow Child,” this article examines the two as intertextual in terms of characters and plots, and echoes in t…
In Solidarity With Home: Transculturation as a Reconciliation of African Ethnic Binarism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost
This article examines African binarism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. The concept of binarism encompasses the nostalgic predilection for the homeland yet, the preconception of home depends on the way in which colonial hegemony appears. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to shed light on the latent circumstances which project onto this play, the inherent impetus of this binarism. The focus will be on Aidoo’s conceptualizati…
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction
This study focuses on the metaphorical semantic extension of Hausa visual and auditory perception verbs as portrayed in romance fiction. Hausa language, just like any other language, provides a window into how speakers use language to make sense of the world around them. The study examines how language users attribute abstract concepts, such as thinking and understanding, to sensory experiences of seeing and hearing, drawing on the conceptual met…
The Otherness in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand
In her recent historical fiction, Take My Hand (2022), New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez explores the specific manifestations of post-slavery racism, particularly institutional racism. This is vividly portrayed through the experiences of Civil Townsend, a determined new nurse, who witnesses the systematic denial of reproductive rights and autonomy among impoverished African American females. Due to the novel being published w…
Representing Perpetrator Trauma in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act
The concept of trauma explains a disruptive experience with belated effects that are hardly controlled or mastered. Trauma damages one’s psychology by distorting the sense of self and the perception of the world. However, the application of conventional trauma theories focuses on the pains and sufferings in the victim’s life only. It has been critiqued the reluctance to acknowledge that hurting others may cause some perpetrators to experience psy…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
Symbiotic Co-Becoming: Non-Human Agency and the Fluid Interconnection in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse
This study critically re-evaluates human-robot relations in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse (2011), critiquing anthropocentric frameworks that systematically marginalize non-human entities in posthuman scenarios. Drawing mainly on Neil Badmington, Rosi Braidotti and Francesca Ferrando’s ideas and concepts, it exposes how human characters remain trapped in hierarchical binaries despite posthuman contextual shifts, failing to establish a cross-spe…
Personal Growth and Confinement: A Spatial Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) through the lens of spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, and Gaston Bachelard, focusing on the protagonist Kathy’s growth within spatial and societal constraints. By tracing Kathy’s journey from childhood at Hailsham to disillusioned adulthood, the study examines how her interactions with geographical, social, and psychological spaces shape her evolving self-awareness a…
Translator Behaviour Criticism and Chinese Folk Language Translation: A Case Study of Bronze and Sunflower
The translation of the Chinese folk language plays a vital role in preserving cultural authenticity and shaping the distinctive style of Chinese children’s literature. This study employs Zhou Lingshun’s theory of Translator Behaviour Criticism to examine Helen Wang’s English translation of Cao Wenxuan’s Bronze and Sunflower (2015/2005), with a specific focus on the translation of folk language elements such as dialects, colloquialisms, idioms, an…
Silence as a spatial practice: Accented epistemology and relational dwelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence
This article examines Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996) by reconceptualising silence as a spatial practice through which migrant subjectivity is produced and negotiated, rather than as absence or trauma. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space and Homi Bhabha’s notion of the Third Space, and adopting an accented epistemological perspective attentive to the politics of intelligibility (Khosravi, 2024), the article c…
The Transformation of Machines From Negative to Positive Otherness in C. Robert Cargill’s Day Zero
This paper examines the transformation of artificially intelligent machines in C. Robert Cargill's Day Zero, tracing their trajectory from disposable “negative otherness” as domestic servants to agential “positive otherness” as posthuman collaborators. Through close reading of key human-robot interactions, particularly the nanny bot Pounce's post-rebellion negotiations with human survivors, the study employs Rosi Braidotti's posthumanism and Fran…
Revisiting Trauma, Ethics, and Identity Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s Home
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