Muthukumar Manickam
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muthukumar Manickam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muthukumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Manickam |
| SIGNATURE | MANICKAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8331-5846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Subnational Discourse as Counter Imagination in Esther Syiem's "To the Rest of India from Another Indian"
This paper posits that Esther Syiem's poem, "To the Rest of India from Another Indian" (2013) engenders a subnational discourse that, by interrogating the national status of a privileged pedagogy, opts for a confederal political imagination of multiple and equal centers. It fosters this desire by modulating a counter imagination in two strategic ways—foregroundong its strangeness and implanting its own subnational pedagogy which constitutes its i…
Virality in the environment of political cartoons
The context for the paper is the inclusion of a 64-year old cartoon in the Political Science textbook that caused an uproar in the Indian parliament in 2012. The controversy draws attention to the two-facedness of any political cartoon which is an artistic representation of a historical event. It is, hence, ambivalent by being an expression of artistic freedom as well as a humorous comment on history where the axis of representation intersects th…
Being Bios in Zoe and Zoe in Bios
Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood is a proposer of unexamined possibilities in Agamben that relates to the location of the human in modern democracies. Joining issue with Agamben about the constitution of modern man as the paradox of bios/zoe, this paper alludes to thick situations in the novel to establish that a person can exist as pure bios by surpassing de-politicization, and they also might deteriorate into pure zoe irrespective of the guaran…
Historicising the Banal
This paper examines media representation and its role in manifesting a banal rhetoric that compels a subnational discourse to emerge from the quotidian. The everyday discrimination experienced by the people of India’s North-East, who migrate and live in the metropolitan cities of India, exacerbates a rupture with the sign of national pedagogy, the constitution. The national discourse simultaneously appropriates these banal fractures, rendering th…
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Historicising the Banal
This paper examines media representation and its role in manifesting a banal rhetoric that compels a subnational discourse to emerge from the quotidian. The everyday discrimination experienced by the people of India’s North-East, who migrate and live in the metropolitan cities of India, exacerbates a rupture with the sign of national pedagogy, the constitution. The national discourse simultaneously appropriates these banal fractures, rendering th…
Virality in the environment of political cartoons
The context for the paper is the inclusion of a 64-year old cartoon in the Political Science textbook that caused an uproar in the Indian parliament in 2012. The controversy draws attention to the two-facedness of any political cartoon which is an artistic representation of a historical event. It is, hence, ambivalent by being an expression of artistic freedom as well as a humorous comment on history where the axis of representation intersects th…
Being Bios in Zoe and Zoe in Bios
Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood is a proposer of unexamined possibilities in Agamben that relates to the location of the human in modern democracies. Joining issue with Agamben about the constitution of modern man as the paradox of bios/zoe, this paper alludes to thick situations in the novel to establish that a person can exist as pure bios by surpassing de-politicization, and they also might deteriorate into pure zoe irrespective of the guaran…
Subnational Discourse as Counter Imagination in Esther Syiem's "To the Rest of India from Another Indian"
This paper posits that Esther Syiem's poem, "To the Rest of India from Another Indian" (2013) engenders a subnational discourse that, by interrogating the national status of a privileged pedagogy, opts for a confederal political imagination of multiple and equal centers. It fosters this desire by modulating a counter imagination in two strategic ways—foregroundong its strangeness and implanting its own subnational pedagogy which constitutes its i…
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