Amutha Dhanaraj
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amutha Dhanaraj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amutha |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhanaraj |
| SIGNATURE | DHANARAJ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karunya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7350-1859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Subverting Hegemony
Dalit women confront a series of challenges in the form of gender, caste, and class discrimination in the course of their subjugation and are frequently exploited by several agencies during various periods of their lives. Consequently, they are stereotyped as victims or subalterns in society. Over the last few decades, sociopolitical movements and progressive strategies have helped many Dalit women to break the shackles of enslavementand reclaim …
Transborder discourses
This article explores the challenges confronted by those who identify as gender non-conforming, especially transgender people, whose identities contradict the binary gender paradigm that permeates heteronormative cultures. They are thus frequently made invisible and marginalised, which forces them to live as forced subalterns. This research examines the complex intersections of marginalisation, the creation of gender identities, resistance, subal…
Subverting apartheid
Burger’s Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer, investigates the racial and political systems that underpin apartheid South Africa, proposing a radical reassessment of identity and resistance. This study analyses how the novel undermines established racial hierarchies by focusing on a White protagonist whose individual journey is inextricably linked to the extensive anti-apartheid movement. Utilising the framework of postcolonial theory, the research illu…
Trauma and Cultural Estrangement of Immigrant Children in Marina Budhos’ Ask Me No Questions
Children form the most vulnerable group in the context of violence, including war, riots, and racial and communal conflicts. They easily become the victims of social, political and cultural injustices. Unimaginable emotional and psychological trauma is endured by kids who are uprooted from their home country and kept apart from their parents. In the course of their personality development and character formation, it will have everlasting repercus…
African woman’s sense of agency and selfhood in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga was a novelist and a filmmaker in colonial Rhodesia. Her writing has mostly been associated with feminism and colonialism. She emphasizes the concept that women’s identity is the only thing that causes them to recognize their inferiority to men. This paper discusses the suppression and resistance in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The story revolves around a young girl who hungers for an education in a patriarchal society. Th…
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Trauma and Cultural Estrangement of Immigrant Children in Marina Budhos’ Ask Me No Questions
Children form the most vulnerable group in the context of violence, including war, riots, and racial and communal conflicts. They easily become the victims of social, political and cultural injustices. Unimaginable emotional and psychological trauma is endured by kids who are uprooted from their home country and kept apart from their parents. In the course of their personality development and character formation, it will have everlasting repercus…
African woman’s sense of agency and selfhood in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga was a novelist and a filmmaker in colonial Rhodesia. Her writing has mostly been associated with feminism and colonialism. She emphasizes the concept that women’s identity is the only thing that causes them to recognize their inferiority to men. This paper discusses the suppression and resistance in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The story revolves around a young girl who hungers for an education in a patriarchal society. Th…
Subverting Hegemony
Dalit women confront a series of challenges in the form of gender, caste, and class discrimination in the course of their subjugation and are frequently exploited by several agencies during various periods of their lives. Consequently, they are stereotyped as victims or subalterns in society. Over the last few decades, sociopolitical movements and progressive strategies have helped many Dalit women to break the shackles of enslavementand reclaim …
Transborder discourses
This article explores the challenges confronted by those who identify as gender non-conforming, especially transgender people, whose identities contradict the binary gender paradigm that permeates heteronormative cultures. They are thus frequently made invisible and marginalised, which forces them to live as forced subalterns. This research examines the complex intersections of marginalisation, the creation of gender identities, resistance, subal…
Subverting apartheid
Burger’s Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer, investigates the racial and political systems that underpin apartheid South Africa, proposing a radical reassessment of identity and resistance. This study analyses how the novel undermines established racial hierarchies by focusing on a White protagonist whose individual journey is inextricably linked to the extensive anti-apartheid movement. Utilising the framework of postcolonial theory, the research illu…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Class (philosophy) (1 work)