Niraja Saraswat
Biographic Data
| ID | 6644425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niraja Saraswat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niraja |
| FAMILY NAME | Saraswat |
| SIGNATURE | SARASWAT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6998-6144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chasing Queer Utopia
Discourse on queer women in India has gained momentum in recent years, making lesbians a political, cultural, and literary subject. Life writings of such subjects imagine and embody possible queer futures within cultural productions, functioning as “utopian performativity.” In this study, the work of India’s foremost “out” lesbian writer, Suniti Namjoshi, Goja: An Autobiographical Myth (2000), is analyzed in parallel with K. Vaishali’s Homeless: …
Beyond binaries
This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the intersections of migration and queerness by investigating how queer Muslim women from Pakistan negotiate with religion, queer desire, and belonging in transnational spaces. Two memoirs by queer Muslim women- We Have Always Been Here (2019) by Samra Habib and Hijab Butch Blues (2023) by Lamya H.-not only map their authors' journeys across geographical borders but also trace the realiz…
Sign Language Poetry on Screen
Film and videography have played crucial roles in the documentation of performing arts. One such case is of sign language poetry (SLP), which materializes as a phenomenon through the polylogics among different media like visuals and the performing body. The ways of representation within these intersecting language systems of the body, camera, lights, etc. determine how SLP is received. This paper focuses on Ella Mae Lentz’s American Sign Language…
Draupadi as an Apostle of Subjectivity, Agency and Feminism in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions
The characters in Indian mythology have often awed the general readers, be it Sita, Mandvi, Ahilya, Draupadi, Vidushi and Savitri. Certain characters suffered a lot in their lives, battling against the then-existing ethos, yet failed to create a place for themselves in that time or today. Panchali is one such character who is deprived of glory, has often been looked down upon and has been considered a name having relations with many men. The last…
Exploring the Effects of Blended Learning using WhatsApp on Language Learners’ Lexical Competence
In the wake of COVID-19, online learning has achieved new dimensions and affected all fields of education. As such, one of the emerging fields of ELT is Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). The proposed study adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors influencing students’ behavioral intention towards WhatsApp for enhancing lexical competence. Three constructs, namely, performance expectancy, so…
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Exploring the Effects of Blended Learning using WhatsApp on Language Learners’ Lexical Competence
In the wake of COVID-19, online learning has achieved new dimensions and affected all fields of education. As such, one of the emerging fields of ELT is Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). The proposed study adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors influencing students’ behavioral intention towards WhatsApp for enhancing lexical competence. Three constructs, namely, performance expectancy, so…
Draupadi as an Apostle of Subjectivity, Agency and Feminism in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions
The characters in Indian mythology have often awed the general readers, be it Sita, Mandvi, Ahilya, Draupadi, Vidushi and Savitri. Certain characters suffered a lot in their lives, battling against the then-existing ethos, yet failed to create a place for themselves in that time or today. Panchali is one such character who is deprived of glory, has often been looked down upon and has been considered a name having relations with many men. The last…
Sign Language Poetry on Screen
Film and videography have played crucial roles in the documentation of performing arts. One such case is of sign language poetry (SLP), which materializes as a phenomenon through the polylogics among different media like visuals and the performing body. The ways of representation within these intersecting language systems of the body, camera, lights, etc. determine how SLP is received. This paper focuses on Ella Mae Lentz’s American Sign Language…
Beyond binaries
This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the intersections of migration and queerness by investigating how queer Muslim women from Pakistan negotiate with religion, queer desire, and belonging in transnational spaces. Two memoirs by queer Muslim women- We Have Always Been Here (2019) by Samra Habib and Hijab Butch Blues (2023) by Lamya H.-not only map their authors' journeys across geographical borders but also trace the realiz…
Chasing Queer Utopia
Discourse on queer women in India has gained momentum in recent years, making lesbians a political, cultural, and literary subject. Life writings of such subjects imagine and embody possible queer futures within cultural productions, functioning as “utopian performativity.” In this study, the work of India’s foremost “out” lesbian writer, Suniti Namjoshi, Goja: An Autobiographical Myth (2000), is analyzed in parallel with K. Vaishali’s Homeless: …
Art (2 works) · Lesbian (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Memoir (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work)