Nobonita Rakshit
Biographic Data
| ID | 5141044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nobonita Rakshit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nobonita |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakshit |
| SIGNATURE | RAKSHIT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8584-862X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“I didn’t choose water. Water chose me”
This Google Meet interview with the graphic novelist and illustrator Sarnath Banerjee features a discussion on the potential of graphic narratives to document scientific data of the climate crisis and transform them into compelling narratives with particular reference to his All Quiet in Vikaspuri (2015). Banerjee describes his creative process and thoughts on the choice of form, genre, and medium that went into creating All Quiet in Vikaspuri. B…
Towards a Post-Colonial Eco-Cosmopolitanism
In an era of unprecedented global connectivity and ecological crises, the concept of “place” has been profoundly transformed within post-colonised communities. This study examines how literature, specifically Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), as a medium can revive the sense of place, particularly the place sense redefined by the experiences of post-colonial eco-social catastrophes, as a dialogical co-habitation of human-non-human envir…
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure
Mainstream media narratives and the official historiography of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy have overlooked the testimonies of disaster survivors, culturally discounting the authority of witnessing in both scholarly discourse and public arenas. This has left a space for novelists, as writer-activists, to trace the socio-political, economic and ecological injustices of post-colonial disasters like the Bhopal gas leak. Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People …
Abstract Knowledge, Embodied Experience
The paper attempts to read the representation and (re)creation of Sundarbans into the narrative structure of the three works of Amitav Ghosh- The Hungry Tide (2004), Gun Island (2019), and Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021) through the idea of ‘literary fieldwork’ that the paper develops by putting these literary narratives in conversation with the fieldwork narratives. Drawing from Puri and Castillo’s (2016) concept of “humanities fiel…
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Abstract Knowledge, Embodied Experience
The paper attempts to read the representation and (re)creation of Sundarbans into the narrative structure of the three works of Amitav Ghosh- The Hungry Tide (2004), Gun Island (2019), and Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021) through the idea of ‘literary fieldwork’ that the paper develops by putting these literary narratives in conversation with the fieldwork narratives. Drawing from Puri and Castillo’s (2016) concept of “humanities fiel…
Towards a Post-Colonial Eco-Cosmopolitanism
In an era of unprecedented global connectivity and ecological crises, the concept of “place” has been profoundly transformed within post-colonised communities. This study examines how literature, specifically Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), as a medium can revive the sense of place, particularly the place sense redefined by the experiences of post-colonial eco-social catastrophes, as a dialogical co-habitation of human-non-human envir…
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure
Mainstream media narratives and the official historiography of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy have overlooked the testimonies of disaster survivors, culturally discounting the authority of witnessing in both scholarly discourse and public arenas. This has left a space for novelists, as writer-activists, to trace the socio-political, economic and ecological injustices of post-colonial disasters like the Bhopal gas leak. Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People …
“I didn’t choose water. Water chose me”
This Google Meet interview with the graphic novelist and illustrator Sarnath Banerjee features a discussion on the potential of graphic narratives to document scientific data of the climate crisis and transform them into compelling narratives with particular reference to his All Quiet in Vikaspuri (2015). Banerjee describes his creative process and thoughts on the choice of form, genre, and medium that went into creating All Quiet in Vikaspuri. B…
Art (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)