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Author: search.filters.author.Narasingaram, JayashreeStart date: 2020

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    VIGNETTE OF ECO-NOSTALGIA IN AKKINENI KUTUMBARAO’S SOFTLY DIES A LAKE
    (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR), 2022-09) Kaviya, K; Narasingaram, Jayashree
    Softly Dies a Lake written by Akkineni Kutumbarao in Telugu as Kolleti Jadalu and translated to English by Vasanth Kannabiran is a revisit to, a recollection of and a nostalgia on the lake Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh. Hit by the aquaculture industry boosted by the Blue Revolution, fast booming industrialism, unsupervised governance of few authorities, uneven monsoon patterns combined with diversion of river waters and the greed of the humankind, Kolleru, a once sprawling body of freshwater in India, is currently reduced to its mere capacities. The splendour of the lake is at present remembered only through the recollection of memories by its natives, who lament over its degenerated state and hope to revive it back to its finery. This emotion, found common among the natives of a land devastated by climate change and ecological issues, called eco-nostalgia is a relatively new study in anthropology and discusses how it is encountered, experienced and reacted to. Though not studied much in literature, literature can prove to be an excellent medium at studying eco-nostalgia in human subjects as it is the characters and their experiences with the land and society that steer head the plot. Apropos this, this paper studies the depiction of eco-nostalgia in an environment seriously damaged and threatened by climate change using the four propositions of eco-nostalgia propounded by Angé and Berliner in Softly Dies a Lake; the practical possibility to study eco-nostalgia from literature based on true events and;
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    A STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF ILLUSTRATED TALES IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE TO CHILDREN
    (ProQuest, 2023) Kaviya, Kathiresan; Narasingaram, Jayashree
    Children of today are scarcely aware of climate change, while already growing up facing the effects of it. As citizens and future policy makers, it becomes essential for children to be informed of the threat and procedures to mitigate it. However, studies show that most children are not introduced to climate change in their primary years, be it at home or school. One of the many modes available to effectively and non-violently teach climate change is through illustrated tales, which has an ideal blend of illustrations and text. This study explores the potency of these tales through a case study done among twenty children aged between three and fourteen.
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    MIGRATION AND OIL-CENTRIC LIFE: A STUDY ON GHASSAN KANAFANI’S MEN IN THE SUN
    (IAFOR Publications, 2022-10-28) Jeyasiba, Ponmani Sami; Narasingaram, Jayashree
    The oil narratives bring in a gamut of perspectives that would redefine the outlook of life. Modern life is embedded in the discovery of oil and the usage of hydrocarbon fuels. Petrofiction offers a scope for understanding the representation of oil aesthetics in literature. The research paper aims to critically expound the transformation after the sudden boom of wealth in Kuwait due to the discovery of oil, and the migration of Palestine refugees from Iraqi camps to Kuwait in search of jobs to upgrade their living conditions with reference to Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani. The study authenticates the oil-centric life in Men in the Sun by understanding that oil is the base structure that governs the “push”, “pressure” and “stay” factors of a refugee in flight with theoretical support of kinetic model of exile, displacement and resettlement as proposed by Egon F. Kunz.
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    PETRO-WARFARE AND DEPARTED CHILDHOOD: A STUDY OF MARJANE SATRAPI’S PERSEPOLIS AS A PETROFICTION
    (2022-07-07) Jeyasiba Ponmani S; Narasingaram, Jayashree
    Since the beginning, fuel resources have been imperative to sustain life on earth. The benchmark of civilisation is noted by the evolution in the usage of fuel resources over a period of time. Transformation from wood, tallow, coal, whale oil to fossil fuels saw the advent of modern industrialised society. The oil resources have played a significant role in designing the economic and historical construct of contemporary times. Petrofiction is the representation of the petroculture in literature. The greed for power and capital has modified oil from being an energy resource to a weapon for social, political and economic domination. The discovery of oil in Iran transformed the prospects of the country, and it became the battlefield of hegemony and politics. This paper aims to critically view Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, as a petrofiction by analysing the historical setting and how oil propels the main action of the story. The consequences of the oil war, and how both the internal and external cues like trauma and war affect the behavioural pattern of the children, are studied using this graphic novel. Thus, the paper signifies the magnitude of the oil narratives, and their importance in the current anthropocene epoch.