Sharon Pillai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5843298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Pillai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillai |
| SIGNATURE | PILLAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gendered Desire and Devotional Discourse
This essay explores certain prominent practices and precepts of Bhakti, understood as a distinct articulation of desire. Bhakti, which can be traced back to medieval India, continues to powerfully inform and shape not only modern Hindu religious customs but also the broader popular-cultural imaginary. For several Indians, Bhakti saints are household names - people they may worship, consider their gurus, or even be named after. It would be no exag…
“Tell…the truth, but tell it slant”
Mirza Muhammad Hadi Rusva is best remembered today for Umrao Jan Ada, his Urdu novel about a Lucknavi courtesan by the same name, published in 1899. More than a century on, Umrao Jan Ada is praised, on the one hand, for being the first proper novel in Urdu. On the other, the novel is lauded for its accomplished portrayal of Lucknow a few years before and after the watershed events of 1857. Much of the Anglophone critical evaluation of Umrao Jan A…
Indigenous roots of feminism
It is a commonly held view in India that the discourse of feminism is a culturally alien, Western import. Jasbir Jain's Indigenous Roots of Feminism is an attempt to correct this perception. Accord
For the record
Minding Our Keys and Cues
This essay is about the often unremarked legislative control exercised by a certain set of modern(ist) assumptions in contemporary Anglophone Indian literary-critical discourse. Its chief aim is to call for and contribute toward rupturing this modernist hegemony. The essay identifies the major traits of the critical consensus and then discusses its harmful effects on Anglophone Indian literary studies, first, in the hope to persuade that such a c…
Gender Representation in U.R. Anantha Murthy’s Samskara
Anantha Murthy’s novel Samskara has achieved translated recognition nationally and internationally as a modern classic of Indian literature. Though it has generated much critical comment, insufficient attention has been given to its gender representation. Discussions of the novel’s gender politics have either focused on its positive representations of feminine beauty and initiative or have taken a bleak view of its sexist arrangements. Re-scrutin…
Configuring a New Swaraj
Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath
(2008). Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath. South Asian Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 29-55
Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath
(2008). Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath. South Asian Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 29-55
Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath
(2008). Re-addressing the Cast of Nation, Gender and Desire in Anandamath. South Asian Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 29-55
Configuring a New Swaraj
Gender Representation in U.R. Anantha Murthy’s Samskara
Anantha Murthy’s novel Samskara has achieved translated recognition nationally and internationally as a modern classic of Indian literature. Though it has generated much critical comment, insufficient attention has been given to its gender representation. Discussions of the novel’s gender politics have either focused on its positive representations of feminine beauty and initiative or have taken a bleak view of its sexist arrangements. Re-scrutin…
For the record
Minding Our Keys and Cues
This essay is about the often unremarked legislative control exercised by a certain set of modern(ist) assumptions in contemporary Anglophone Indian literary-critical discourse. Its chief aim is to call for and contribute toward rupturing this modernist hegemony. The essay identifies the major traits of the critical consensus and then discusses its harmful effects on Anglophone Indian literary studies, first, in the hope to persuade that such a c…
Indigenous roots of feminism
It is a commonly held view in India that the discourse of feminism is a culturally alien, Western import. Jasbir Jain's Indigenous Roots of Feminism is an attempt to correct this perception. Accord
“Tell…the truth, but tell it slant”
Mirza Muhammad Hadi Rusva is best remembered today for Umrao Jan Ada, his Urdu novel about a Lucknavi courtesan by the same name, published in 1899. More than a century on, Umrao Jan Ada is praised, on the one hand, for being the first proper novel in Urdu. On the other, the novel is lauded for its accomplished portrayal of Lucknow a few years before and after the watershed events of 1857. Much of the Anglophone critical evaluation of Umrao Jan A…
Gendered Desire and Devotional Discourse
This essay explores certain prominent practices and precepts of Bhakti, understood as a distinct articulation of desire. Bhakti, which can be traced back to medieval India, continues to powerfully inform and shape not only modern Hindu religious customs but also the broader popular-cultural imaginary. For several Indians, Bhakti saints are household names - people they may worship, consider their gurus, or even be named after. It would be no exag…
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