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Deconstructing the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Anvita Dutt’s Qala

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ID7166013
AuthorsShivalika Agarwal (0000-0003-2344-1223), Nagendra Kumar (0000-0002-8292-7947)
Year2025
Volume42
Issue3
Pages899-911
Publication date2025-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueQuarterly Review of Film Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0146-0013 • E-ISSN: 1543-5326
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10509208.2023.2246865
OpenAlexW4385876926
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 A vocal genre of Indian music.2 Any of the various specialist schools or methods of classical music or dance.3 Bai is a term used widely across India but conveys different meanings. However, here it refers to women belonging to the lower class or women considered to be promiscuous.4 A large four-stringed lute used in Indian music as a drone accompaniment.Additional informationNotes on contributorsShivalika AgarwalShivalika Agarwal is a published poet and a doctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research interests include Indian motherhood studies, women studies, psychoanalysis, feminine psychology, identity development, and female studies.Nagendra KumarNagendra Kumar is a HAG Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He specializes in English Language, Literature, and Communication Studies. Besides publishing a widely reviewed book on Bharati Mukherjee, The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Cultural Perspective (Atlantic, 2001), he has published in journals like South Asian Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Asiatic, Rupkatha: Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Caesura: Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies, IUP Journal of English Studies, Literary Voice, etc. He has been the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award of IIT Roorkee for the year 2015. He has also served as Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Roorkee from 2018 to 2021

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Citations per year2
Citation span2025 - 2026 (2)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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