Sukanya Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukanya Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Indiana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five pedagogical strategies to address challenges in teaching “Women in Islam”
This article is a reflection of the author’s experiences teaching a course titled ‘Women In Islam’ [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The article refers to the following five teaching strategies: Thinking through History, The Lived Realities …
Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri as Text/Image Activism and Cli-Fi
Using an ecocritical approach and discussing the theory of the graphic novel as it relates to Indian writing in English, this paper argues that In All Quiet in Vikaspuri Sarnath Banerjee blends the cli-fi genre with the medium of the graphic novel to illustrate “slow violence” that is perpetrated on nature in the name of vikas or progress. Through his text/image activism, Banerjee depicts India’s water wars at the community level, a corrupt polit…
Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru
In Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru, protagonist Ram Chakravarti migrates from India to America with the hopes of becoming a writer. However, in America he is seen as a representative of Hindu India. Capitalising on the frenzy surrounding American Transcendentalist version of Hinduism and Tantra, Ram becomes guru ‘Chukker’. He ‘cures’ disciples with sex therapy, wins the Nobel peace prize, and eventually becomes the president of America. Examinin…
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
Constructing Hindu Religioscapes: Guruism and Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
This project draws attention to the modern phenomenon of Guruism. I demonstrate that gurus in South Asian fiction are no longer adopting Guruism for the purposes of religion alone. In the novels I analyze, gurus use religion as a tool to resist dominant power structures, to strengthen/protect themselves in communities that stereotype, to access social/financial mobility and to obtain political power. The actions of these religious leaders have bo…
In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami
(2009). In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 142-166
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami
(2009). In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 142-166
Constructing Hindu Religioscapes: Guruism and Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
This project draws attention to the modern phenomenon of Guruism. I demonstrate that gurus in South Asian fiction are no longer adopting Guruism for the purposes of religion alone. In the novels I analyze, gurus use religion as a tool to resist dominant power structures, to strengthen/protect themselves in communities that stereotype, to access social/financial mobility and to obtain political power. The actions of these religious leaders have bo…
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru
In Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru, protagonist Ram Chakravarti migrates from India to America with the hopes of becoming a writer. However, in America he is seen as a representative of Hindu India. Capitalising on the frenzy surrounding American Transcendentalist version of Hinduism and Tantra, Ram becomes guru ‘Chukker’. He ‘cures’ disciples with sex therapy, wins the Nobel peace prize, and eventually becomes the president of America. Examinin…
Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri as Text/Image Activism and Cli-Fi
Using an ecocritical approach and discussing the theory of the graphic novel as it relates to Indian writing in English, this paper argues that In All Quiet in Vikaspuri Sarnath Banerjee blends the cli-fi genre with the medium of the graphic novel to illustrate “slow violence” that is perpetrated on nature in the name of vikas or progress. Through his text/image activism, Banerjee depicts India’s water wars at the community level, a corrupt polit…
Five pedagogical strategies to address challenges in teaching “Women in Islam”
This article is a reflection of the author’s experiences teaching a course titled ‘Women In Islam’ [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The article refers to the following five teaching strategies: Thinking through History, The Lived Realities …
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