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My speciality lies in the colonial, postcolonial, and interdisciplinarity of socio-historicity of the humanities, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, food studies, popular, gothic, science, and speculative fictions.
Supervisors: David Huddart and Graham Huggan
Address: Postgraduate Hall 4, CUHK, Shatin NT, Hong Kong SAR
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Contemporary Literary Review India, 2022
Krogstad, the mass consensus proclaimed antagonist, who visits the Helmers only to bring a flurry... more Krogstad, the mass consensus proclaimed antagonist, who visits the Helmers only to bring a flurry of disruption and catastrophe comes off as someone greater than what he is deemed to be. The critics of the play, that ends with Nora Helmer leaving the house, her children Vol. 9, No. 1
International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES), 2022
Ever since Japanese manga and anime began portraying characters beyond the stereotypical binary o... more Ever since Japanese manga and anime began portraying characters beyond the stereotypical binary of 'man' and 'woman', more specifically termed as 'yuri' (explicit) or 'shōjo-ai' (girl love) and 'yaoi' (explicit) or 'shōnen-ai' (boy love), the other east-Asian countries in the comic and entertainment industry followed suit as well as Chinese manhua and more recently Korean manhwa flourished in the domain. My research paper takes into account of all the prevailing factors, dominating influence of social custom, normative acceptance of the mass and many more which finally result in the culmination of such non-conforming genre(s). Asians have been perceived as typical of being conventional and sexually orthodox in perception and societal makeup. Despite the backlash and negativity of censorship involved initially in such genre(s), the internet boom and the availability of the same over e-platforms like online websites and the inception of webtoons brought in a wave of mass access and popularity of the same. It is interesting to note that BL (boy love) comics which focus on the same-sex love from a man's perspective, defying the traditional male-gaze for the female only, has had a massive viewership among women despite them being biologically straight. This paper makes an effort in trying to understand what reasons underlie such antithetical reading choices where sexuality might or might not essentially play a major role in such decisions.
Contemporary Literary Review India, 2022
Krogstad, the mass consensus proclaimed antagonist, who visits the Helmers only to bring a flurry... more Krogstad, the mass consensus proclaimed antagonist, who visits the Helmers only to bring a flurry of disruption and catastrophe comes off as someone greater than what he is deemed to be. The critics of the play, that ends with Nora Helmer leaving the house, her children Vol. 9, No. 1
International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES), 2022
Ever since Japanese manga and anime began portraying characters beyond the stereotypical binary o... more Ever since Japanese manga and anime began portraying characters beyond the stereotypical binary of 'man' and 'woman', more specifically termed as 'yuri' (explicit) or 'shōjo-ai' (girl love) and 'yaoi' (explicit) or 'shōnen-ai' (boy love), the other east-Asian countries in the comic and entertainment industry followed suit as well as Chinese manhua and more recently Korean manhwa flourished in the domain. My research paper takes into account of all the prevailing factors, dominating influence of social custom, normative acceptance of the mass and many more which finally result in the culmination of such non-conforming genre(s). Asians have been perceived as typical of being conventional and sexually orthodox in perception and societal makeup. Despite the backlash and negativity of censorship involved initially in such genre(s), the internet boom and the availability of the same over e-platforms like online websites and the inception of webtoons brought in a wave of mass access and popularity of the same. It is interesting to note that BL (boy love) comics which focus on the same-sex love from a man's perspective, defying the traditional male-gaze for the female only, has had a massive viewership among women despite them being biologically straight. This paper makes an effort in trying to understand what reasons underlie such antithetical reading choices where sexuality might or might not essentially play a major role in such decisions.