Interstices of Space and Memory

Sreedevi Santhosh works as Associate Professor in the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. Her areas of interest include Regional Studies and Cultural Studies. She also serves in an advisory capacity on Doctoral Research Committees and Board of Studies.Samjaila TH currently works as Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. Her areas of interest include folktales and folklore, narrative non- fiction and oceanic studies.Sneha Suresh is an independent researcher. Her areas of interest include - fiction studies, culinary writing, narrative nonfiction and creative writing.Preethi S is a faculty, at the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru. Her primary area of research examines the collectivization of National Memory in archiving and documenting Japanese imperialism and its impact on Asian narratives of war, pertaining to memoir writings.

• 1. Syncretic Spaces of a Popular Islamic Festival Site: A Cultural Critique of Changanassery Chandanakudam in Central Travancore2. Nature in Urban Memory in B.LORE (2022)3. Cricket as a Postcolonial Memory Space: An Analysis of Selected Poems from Caribbean Literature4. Bombay’s Slums as a Borsalino Test: An Analysis of the Urban Landscape in Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram5. Psychogeographical Analysis of Kolkata: A Study on K.R Meera’s Hangwoman6. Cityscapes as Palimpsests: Reconfiguring Identities in the Living Archives of Indian Metropolis7. Diminishing Memories, Digital Stories—Exploring Memory Loss and Digital Spaces in Stu Campbell’s These Memories Won’t Last8. A Representation of Bangalore of the 1920s in Harini Nagendra’s Fiction9. Intersection of Identity and Public Space: Understanding Narratives of ‘Body’ from the Urban Spaces10. Betwixt the Madding Crowd and the Madhouse: Ambivalent Femininity, Embodied City and the ‘Modern Woman’ in Triveni’s Sharapanjara and Doorada Betta11. Quotidian Modernities in Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and Sam Selvon’s The Lonel Londoners12. Archiving Artifacts and Indigenous Material Culture Textiles of the Maram Nagas in Northeast India13. Crafting Urban Landscapes: A Study on Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi14. Mapping a Modern Space through the Spectres of the Past: A Spatial Study of ‘Mattancherry’ as a Site of Rebellion and Urban Nostalgia in the film Thuramukham15. Chayakada: Place-Making of Kerala Migrants in Kothanur, Bengaluru16. Food Movement and Cultural Variation: Contextualizing the use of Bamboo Shoots in Northeast India17. Urban Green Spaces: The Mapping of City Biodiversity18. (Re)-Presenting the Mis-representations of Nyoongar Ancestry in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance19. Flaneurs of Postcolonial Kolkata: Navigating the ‘Urban’ in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Works20. The Intricacies in the Inevitable Romanticization of Memories—A Re-reading of Sethu’s Aliyah—The Last Jew in the Village21. Transcendental Aesthetics Beyond Spatial and Linguistic Boundaries in Lijo Jose Pellissery’s ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’: A Qualitative Content Analysis22. The Urban Gestalt: Understanding Lefebvre’s Vision of City23. Cultural Memory Through Space: A Study of Diaspora Literature in the Select Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bharati Mukherjee24. Flavours of Love and Affection in the City of Dreams: Reading the City through Food in Modern Love Mumbai25. Traveling the City: Historicizing Memories of Cities Captured in Narratives and Art—Graffiti and Museums26. Losing Home, Finding Refuge: The Syrian Migration and Pain in Zeyn Joukhadar’s ‘The Map of Salt and Stars’27. Film Landscapes of Studio Ghibli: A Study through Space and Time28. From Pavements to Prosperity: The Economic Impact and Challenges of India’s Street Food Revolution and FSSAI’s Clean Food Initiative29. Mapping the Self and Transcending Spatiality30. Recollection of Spaces and Food as Identity Marker: A Repository of Cultural Memory and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Select Short Stories31. Memory in the Works of Agha Shahid Ali32. Mirror Mirror on the wall: Unraveling the Politics of Urban Spaces33. Exploring the Female Representation and Heterotopic spaces in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence34. Imagined Cities: Exploring Identities of Space and Culture in Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani35. To Be or Not to Be-Citizenship, Identity and Individual Choice36. Why Offensive and Not Free Speech? The “Performativity” of Gender Identities in Digital Heterotopia37. Sculpting Identity through Memories in an Urban Space: Depiction of Identity, Memory and Urbanisation in the Film Loudspeaker38. A Study of Landscapes and Memory in Willa Cather’s ‘Wagner Matinee’39. Deconstructing History: Reading the Novel Francis Itty Cora as Site for Counter-Memory40. Regaining Dignity for Slum Communities: The Need for Inclusive Urban Design with reference to Vikas Swarup’s Novel Q&A41. Choking Spaces and Blurring Boundaries: Environmental and Cultural Constriction in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama and The Hungry Tide42. Confronting The Labyrinth of Lost Memories: Pari’s Struggle and Adaptation in Khaled Hosseini’s and the Mountains Echoed43. Globalisation, Repercussions and its Resultant Effects on Women in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Select Novels44. Fragmented Identities and Contested Spaces: Exploring Memory and Refugee Experiences in Dervla Murphy’s A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza45. The Intersections of Identity and Tradition, Glimpses of Nagaland: Belonging in a Patriarchal Society in A Terrible Matriarchy46. Closed Spaces and Open Closets—Reading Lihaaf47. The Liminal Odyssey: Navigating the Hauntological Landscape of the Mind48. Navigating Emotion through Food, Space and Time in the Traditional Mexican Household: A Study of Human Emotional Development in Like Water for Chocolate49. Metamorphosing Memory of Imperialism and Cultural Identity in Civilizing Mission of Perceptual Images in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness50. Spatial Dynamics and Gender Disparity in Sibling Relationships Within a Household: A Spatial Analysis of the Films Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey and Jo and Jo51. Intersections of New Age Spirituality and Urban Planning in India: Cultivating Well-Being and Harmony in City Landscapes52. Understanding the ‘Invisible’ Agrarian Migrants of Cityscapes: Capability Approach to Social Justice53. Rephrasing Memory: The Reconstruction of Bhima in M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s Bhima: Lone Warrior54. Cities of the Future: Urban Spaces and Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Maddaddam Trilogy55. Canvas of Crime: The Metropolitan Cityscapes of Murder56. Narrating the Story of the City Detroit in the Film Ranam: Detroit Crossing