Papers by Krishanu Adhikari
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2021
An ontological vis-à-vis teleological enquiry of the journey of the university since its inceptio... more An ontological vis-à-vis teleological enquiry of the journey of the university since its inception in the medieval Europe down to the neoliberal developments/challenges of the universities from the former colonies foregrounds the liminalities and contestations pertaining to its discursive and non-linear progression
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
The inherent discursivity, entailing the composite category of ‘The third world women’ hinges on ... more The inherent discursivity, entailing the composite category of ‘The third world women’ hinges on many contentious contours of female subjectivity, its genealogical and teleological subservience and submission to patriarchy, and the subsequent re-assertion of their identities and different female roles within the given rubric of patriarchal capitalist social order of the former colonies through strategic subversion, vis-à-vis negotiation of certain patriarchal ideals.The select novels, i.e. Anuradha Marwah Roy’s The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1993) and Advaita Kala’s Almost Single (2007); from the discursive category of Indian genre fiction narrate two intersecting stories of two middle class Indian women, who have migrated to Delhi in pursuit of empowerment and to transcend the circumscribed trajectories of parochialism and stereotypical tropes of patriarchal order. Drawing inferences from these two texts, the present paper would like to look into the ethical question...
Where there is power, there is resistance" -Michel Foucault.
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Papers by Krishanu Adhikari