Dhanya V Sankar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhanya V Sankar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhanya V |
| FAMILY NAME | Sankar |
| SIGNATURE | SANKAR D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3080-4854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remembering and Dislocation
This paper offers a nuanced reading of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West , examining the refugee experience through the intertwined prisms of memory, materiality and imagination. Set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, the novel traces the journey of Saeed and Nadia as they escape militant violence via mystical doors that transport them to alternate worlds marked by segregation, encampment and exile. The study foregrounds how the characters' embodied pe…
Experientiality of Space in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind
This article examines how history has never been transparent but is always in liaison with memory by considering Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind, a novel that foregrounds individual memory and warps it into collective memory through the acts of remembering and forgetting. Narrated from the perspective not only of the natives but also of the British, who overstayed their welcome and transmogrified the land and culture, this novel is a prud…
Defamiliarizing memory and refugeedom in JJ Bola’s No Place to Call Home
Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect
This paper examines the Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s novel The Mountains Sing (2020) through the lens of postmemory and trauma, focusing on the traumatic affect experienced by the characters and its articulation through literary form. This multigenerational tale is situated in the precincts of the Vietnamese War, Land Reforms by the Communist government, and the Great Famine. The poignant narrative covers four generations of the Trân f…
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Experientiality of Space in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind
This article examines how history has never been transparent but is always in liaison with memory by considering Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind, a novel that foregrounds individual memory and warps it into collective memory through the acts of remembering and forgetting. Narrated from the perspective not only of the natives but also of the British, who overstayed their welcome and transmogrified the land and culture, this novel is a prud…
Defamiliarizing memory and refugeedom in JJ Bola’s No Place to Call Home
Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect
This paper examines the Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s novel The Mountains Sing (2020) through the lens of postmemory and trauma, focusing on the traumatic affect experienced by the characters and its articulation through literary form. This multigenerational tale is situated in the precincts of the Vietnamese War, Land Reforms by the Communist government, and the Great Famine. The poignant narrative covers four generations of the Trân f…
Remembering and Dislocation
This paper offers a nuanced reading of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West , examining the refugee experience through the intertwined prisms of memory, materiality and imagination. Set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, the novel traces the journey of Saeed and Nadia as they escape militant violence via mystical doors that transport them to alternate worlds marked by segregation, encampment and exile. The study foregrounds how the characters' embodied pe…
German Colonialism and Identity Studies (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Demography (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work) · Episodic memory (1 work) · Event (particle physics (1 work) · Geography (1 work)