Anita Harris Satkunananthan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6357026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Harris Satkunananthan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita Harris |
| FAMILY NAME | Satkunananthan |
| SIGNATURE | SATKUNANANTHAN A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2464-2297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rooting and Rerouting Palestinian Memory into Thirdspace Resistance in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
This article rethinks the first chapter of Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here , “The Driver Mahmoud,” as an example of a memory that roots itself into Palestinian consciousness and, as a result, reroutes the Palestinian struggle into Edward Soja’s concept of “Thirdspace Resistance.” Similar to many writings about Palestine, this article argues that each remembrance of the past is inevitably tied to the future. Barghouti’s first …
Signs and Cognition
This article combines Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory and Darko Suvin's cognitive estrangement theory in an analysis of signs and cognition in Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and The Lifecycle of Software Objects. This article contends that this blended approach will allow for new insights into the interpretation of signs and meanings in science fiction texts. Pursuant to this, this article analyses the ways in which novum may be found i…
Feminist Body Horror and Abjection in Black Christmas (2019)
The article investigates the ways in which feminist body horror, abjection, and the female gaze transform the slasher horror film genre through the feminist remake of Black Christmas, directed by Sophia Takal in 2019. By re-framing the slasher narrative through the story of Mu Kappa Epsilon (MKE) sorority's fight against the Delta Kappa Omicron (DKO) fraternity and their eventual victory over the fraternity, Takal’s remake of Black Christmas expo…
A Chronotopic Analysis of Transgenerational Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
The 1947 Indian partition caused significant trauma for Indian Subcontinent communities primarily because many individuals were forced to leave their families and properties as they made the transit from India to Pakistan. Initially seen as altruistic, these immigrants later developed a negative reputation as outsiders and undesired refugees. Utilising Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope, this study investigates the ways in which the compl…
Her Voice in the Forest
Sang Kancil, as a trickster mousedeer figure, may be seen as a cultural artefact according to Benedict Anderson's theory of Imagined Communities. Sang Kancil is traditionally seen as male in Malaysian folklore but, in more contemporary retellings, has been re-envisioned as a female trickster. These adaptations reflect socio-cultural changes which incorporate ecocritical perspectives. Therefore, this article interrogates these contemporary retelli…
Hauntology and Spectres of Personal Trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
The article deploys Jacques Derrida’s hauntological contextualising of spectres in tandem with Dominick LaCapra’s (2004) and E. Ann Kaplan’s (2005) contextualising of trauma to unearth the roles which women are made to play within the societies in Ruskin Bond's narratives. Utilising a hauntological treatment of trauma, two short stories by Bond, “ Topaz ” and “ The Woman on Platform No. 8, ” will be analysed in this article. In particular, this a…
Deterritorialization and ecoGothic Space in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
In this article, the connection between the ecoGothic and human subjectivity in a post-apocalyptic society is examined through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization. The concept of ecoGothic space intersects the studies of geography, ecocriticism and ecoGothic literary analysis. The ecoGothic is particularly pertinent in the post-apocalyptic visions of authors who are haunted by the spectre of climate change and climate disaster …
Plantationocene Systems and Communal Disruptions in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin's critically acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy examines life in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe after a planet is cracked, bleeding and about to die. The trilogy does not seek to redeem the earth or a fractured environment. Rather, the novels demonstrate the ways in which characters develop, dissolve and mutually destroy or support each other. Jemisin's conception of nature is unique and almost antithetical to human survival, but …
The Other Side of Redwall
Brian Jacques’s Redwall series of anthropomorphic fantasy novels featuring animals divided into the noblebeast and vermin are well-loved, with the medieval images of Redwall Abbey, Mossflower and other noblebeast communities exciting the imagination of its readers. Nevertheless, there exists a binary opposition of the noblebeast and the vermin who are vilified and portrayed as savage and amoral. This article argues that the orientalistic roots of…
Pedagogical Aspects of EcoGothic Elements in Ruskin Bond’s Novellas
This article examines the pedagogical aspect of the ecoGothic elements in Ruskin Bond’s fiction, particularly the three novellas chosen to be highlighted: Angry River (Flood), Dust on the Mountains (Deforestation in the Mountains) and Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (Wildlife Conservation) . Even his poems such as “The Pool” and “Parts of Old Dehra” carry the same sombre tone. This article will be analysing these stories, mapping their Gothic tropes …
The Figure of the Nenek Kebayan and the Witch in Selected Haunted House Films
This study analyses the Malay folkloric trope of the Nenek Kebayan and how this supernatural figure is connected to the Gothic trope of the haunted house in selected horror films. This study contends that the figure of the Nenek Kebayan is instrumental in the haunting effect of these homes. Three horror films have therefore been chosen to analyse the motif of the Nenek Kebayan and the haunted house which are Congkak (2005), Al-Hijab (2011) and ad…
Sang Kancil as Cultural Artefact
This article is a comparative study of Sang Kancil, the Malaysian folkloric trickster character with Brer Rabbit (African-American) and Reynard the Fox (French and Dutch) in order to explain the relationship between the Jungian archetypes and Neo-archetypes that may be found in trickster tales found in the printed medium. An analysis of the Sang Kancil stories was conducted by comparing them to these Trickster stories from other cultures to ident…
Otherworlds, Doubles, Houses
Houses feature prominently in Helen Oyeyemi’s novels, The Opposite House and White Is for Witching . I describe the connection between the Greco-Roman Underworld and the Yorùbá Otherworld in Oyeyemi’s texts as a “liminal intersection”, one in which Gothic and supernatural metaphors from the Yorùbá culture are syncretised. The Gothic tropes of the House collide with Oyeyemi’s revisioning of the Yorùbá pantheon and Otherworld. Key figures and symbo…
Plantationocene Systems and Communal Disruptions in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin's critically acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy examines life in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe after a planet is cracked, bleeding and about to die. The trilogy does not seek to redeem the earth or a fractured environment. Rather, the novels demonstrate the ways in which characters develop, dissolve and mutually destroy or support each other. Jemisin's conception of nature is unique and almost antithetical to human survival, but …
Otherworlds, Doubles, Houses
Houses feature prominently in Helen Oyeyemi’s novels, The Opposite House and White Is for Witching . I describe the connection between the Greco-Roman Underworld and the Yorùbá Otherworld in Oyeyemi’s texts as a “liminal intersection”, one in which Gothic and supernatural metaphors from the Yorùbá culture are syncretised. The Gothic tropes of the House collide with Oyeyemi’s revisioning of the Yorùbá pantheon and Otherworld. Key figures and symbo…
Sang Kancil as Cultural Artefact
This article is a comparative study of Sang Kancil, the Malaysian folkloric trickster character with Brer Rabbit (African-American) and Reynard the Fox (French and Dutch) in order to explain the relationship between the Jungian archetypes and Neo-archetypes that may be found in trickster tales found in the printed medium. An analysis of the Sang Kancil stories was conducted by comparing them to these Trickster stories from other cultures to ident…
The Figure of the Nenek Kebayan and the Witch in Selected Haunted House Films
This study analyses the Malay folkloric trope of the Nenek Kebayan and how this supernatural figure is connected to the Gothic trope of the haunted house in selected horror films. This study contends that the figure of the Nenek Kebayan is instrumental in the haunting effect of these homes. Three horror films have therefore been chosen to analyse the motif of the Nenek Kebayan and the haunted house which are Congkak (2005), Al-Hijab (2011) and ad…
The Other Side of Redwall
Brian Jacques’s Redwall series of anthropomorphic fantasy novels featuring animals divided into the noblebeast and vermin are well-loved, with the medieval images of Redwall Abbey, Mossflower and other noblebeast communities exciting the imagination of its readers. Nevertheless, there exists a binary opposition of the noblebeast and the vermin who are vilified and portrayed as savage and amoral. This article argues that the orientalistic roots of…
Pedagogical Aspects of EcoGothic Elements in Ruskin Bond’s Novellas
This article examines the pedagogical aspect of the ecoGothic elements in Ruskin Bond’s fiction, particularly the three novellas chosen to be highlighted: Angry River (Flood), Dust on the Mountains (Deforestation in the Mountains) and Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (Wildlife Conservation) . Even his poems such as “The Pool” and “Parts of Old Dehra” carry the same sombre tone. This article will be analysing these stories, mapping their Gothic tropes …
Plantationocene Systems and Communal Disruptions in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin's critically acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy examines life in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe after a planet is cracked, bleeding and about to die. The trilogy does not seek to redeem the earth or a fractured environment. Rather, the novels demonstrate the ways in which characters develop, dissolve and mutually destroy or support each other. Jemisin's conception of nature is unique and almost antithetical to human survival, but …
Hauntology and Spectres of Personal Trauma in Ruskin Bond’s “Topaz” and “The Woman on Platform No. 8”
The article deploys Jacques Derrida’s hauntological contextualising of spectres in tandem with Dominick LaCapra’s (2004) and E. Ann Kaplan’s (2005) contextualising of trauma to unearth the roles which women are made to play within the societies in Ruskin Bond's narratives. Utilising a hauntological treatment of trauma, two short stories by Bond, “ Topaz ” and “ The Woman on Platform No. 8, ” will be analysed in this article. In particular, this a…
Deterritorialization and ecoGothic Space in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
In this article, the connection between the ecoGothic and human subjectivity in a post-apocalyptic society is examined through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization. The concept of ecoGothic space intersects the studies of geography, ecocriticism and ecoGothic literary analysis. The ecoGothic is particularly pertinent in the post-apocalyptic visions of authors who are haunted by the spectre of climate change and climate disaster …
A Chronotopic Analysis of Transgenerational Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
The 1947 Indian partition caused significant trauma for Indian Subcontinent communities primarily because many individuals were forced to leave their families and properties as they made the transit from India to Pakistan. Initially seen as altruistic, these immigrants later developed a negative reputation as outsiders and undesired refugees. Utilising Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope, this study investigates the ways in which the compl…
Her Voice in the Forest
Sang Kancil, as a trickster mousedeer figure, may be seen as a cultural artefact according to Benedict Anderson's theory of Imagined Communities. Sang Kancil is traditionally seen as male in Malaysian folklore but, in more contemporary retellings, has been re-envisioned as a female trickster. These adaptations reflect socio-cultural changes which incorporate ecocritical perspectives. Therefore, this article interrogates these contemporary retelli…
Rooting and Rerouting Palestinian Memory into Thirdspace Resistance in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
This article rethinks the first chapter of Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here , “The Driver Mahmoud,” as an example of a memory that roots itself into Palestinian consciousness and, as a result, reroutes the Palestinian struggle into Edward Soja’s concept of “Thirdspace Resistance.” Similar to many writings about Palestine, this article argues that each remembrance of the past is inevitably tied to the future. Barghouti’s first …
Signs and Cognition
This article combines Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory and Darko Suvin's cognitive estrangement theory in an analysis of signs and cognition in Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and The Lifecycle of Software Objects. This article contends that this blended approach will allow for new insights into the interpretation of signs and meanings in science fiction texts. Pursuant to this, this article analyses the ways in which novum may be found i…
Feminist Body Horror and Abjection in Black Christmas (2019)
The article investigates the ways in which feminist body horror, abjection, and the female gaze transform the slasher horror film genre through the feminist remake of Black Christmas, directed by Sophia Takal in 2019. By re-framing the slasher narrative through the story of Mu Kappa Epsilon (MKE) sorority's fight against the Delta Kappa Omicron (DKO) fraternity and their eventual victory over the fraternity, Takal’s remake of Black Christmas expo…
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)