Professor T. Marx is a bilingual writer and translator. He currently serves as a professor in the Department of English at Pondicherry University in Puducherry, India. Prof. Marx obtained his Master's degree and Ph.D. from ManonmaniamSundaranar University in Tirunelveli. His areas of specialization encompass drama, comparative literature, subaltern studies, and translation. His research interests lie in the domains of drama, cultural studies, and subaltern historiography. Under his esteemed guidance, 11 scholars have been awarded the prestigious degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prof. Marx has presented papers at numerous international and national seminars and conferences, showcasing his scholarly contributions. With an illustrious career spanning 25 years in teaching and 15 years in research supervision, he has made significant contributions to his field of expertise.
EDUCATION
MA., PhD.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Classics, Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar Haritha Vijayakumaran, Marx T Journal of Literary Studies, 2024 Scholars and philosophers of motherhood studies have continuously highlighted the contradictions in the dominant cultural ideologies of motherhood and the lived experiences of mothers. While the ideologies define the mother as selfless, unconditional, and unequivocal in her love for her children, the actual experience, psychological and sociocultural studies reveal, is often permeated with negative, violent, and conflicting emotions towards children, known as maternal ambivalence. In India, where the idealisation blatantly spills over to deification, voicing such feelings becomes sacrilegious. This paper attempts to study how the novel Burnt Sugar (2020) by Avni Doshi dares to speak the “unspeakable” and demonstrates maternal ambivalence as resulting from a combination of psychological, social, and cultural factors. The analysis looks at how the text negotiates the interspace between daughter-centricity and matrifocality in women’s writing by giving voice to ambivalences on both sides of the mother’s experience—of mothering and being mothered. Ultimately, this study investigates the manner in which these feelings, which are not acknowledged within cultural conceptions of the mother, result in ambivalence and trauma across generations.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
The Changing Image of Women in Indian Writing in English-A Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things T. Marx, Ph. D. AR Rahel
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
The Changing Image of Women in Indian Writing in English-A Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things T. Marx, Ph. D. AR Rahel
