Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 265017 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rajeswari Sunder Rajan |
| NOMBRES | Rajeswari Sunder |
| APELLIDO | Rajan |
| FIRMA | RAJAN R S |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
English in India, India in English
The representation of India in English is a complex and fraught affair, closely intertwined with the phenomenon of English in India. The existence and function of English in India is analyzed in terms of its sociology and its ideology. The demographics of English language users, the official status of English, and its social functions define the former. The ideological double valence of English is more complex. English in India has borne the burd…
Ticket to a Museum
This article is an inquiry into the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, designed and built by the writer Orhan Pamuk as twin to his novel The Museum of Innocence (2008). It is interested in what might lie behind the desire of the contemporary novelist to buttress the world of his novel with the material addition of a museum (a collection of the things depicted in the novel), an artifact also invented by himself. Understanding the circumstances in wh…
Subramania Bharati and the Rhetoric of Enthusiasm
This article identifies the rhetoric and sentiment of enthusiasm as a certain specifically Tamil historical-aesthetic-political conjuncture that operates in both an affective register and as a structure of publicity. The “people,” who emerge as a subject of politics within the crucible of the swadeshi movement, are both “the masses” (a populist political subject) as well as the anticipated citizens of a future sovereign democracy. To distinguish …
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Scope and content: "Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global int…
The Postcolonial Jane Austen
Part 1: Introduction Austen in the World: Postcolonial Mappings Part 2: Austen in the World Jane Austen Goes to the Seaside English Identity and the 'West Indian' Schoolgirl Learning to Ride at Mansfield Park Austen's Treacherous Ivory: Female Patriotism, Domestic Ideology, and Empire Domestic Retrenchment, Colonial Expansion, and the Traffic of Improvement The Property Plots of Mansfield Park Clara Tuite Of Windows and Country Walks Frames of Sp…
Postcolonial Jane Austen
Zeitgeist and the Literary Text
Theory in the Mirror of Caste
Sunder Rajan’s essay responds to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory. Its primary focus is the authors’ arguments regarding the absence of original theory in the social sciences in India, and the case they make for the imperative need for such theory. The essay also places Guru and Sarukkai in conversation with Franz Fanon. It is Fanon, Sunder Rajan contends, who speaks most closely …
An Ethics of Postcolonial Citizenship
This essay addresses the question of how the ethical values of the postcolonial subject are classed and gendered. A certain kind of postcolonial citizen, enjoying the privileges of birth and position, expresses an attitude that is best described (if somewhat anachronistically) as noblesse oblige. I focus on the writings of a handful of post-Independence Indian women writers, in particular Shama Futehally's novel Tara Lane (1993), as exemplifying …
The Travels of the Organic Intellectual
Questioning Intellectuals - 1 - Reading Caste with Gramsci in Two Indian Literary Texts
After Midnight’s Children
The preoccupation with the nation that marks much postcolonial writing, especially the Anglophone novel in India following the appearance of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, has been widely remarked. In this essay I am interested in tracing how this interest in the nation-thematic has persisted into or changed in the course of the first decade of the new century in the fiction (and prose non-fiction) that has appeared since the 1980s, in res…
The Politics of Hindu “Tolerance
That the escalating Hindu violence against minorities has produced a crisis for secularism in present-day India—but not for Hinduism—is an intriguing fact that calls for further analysis. This essay attempts a reexamination of the split between Hinduism and Hindutva, purportedly representing “true” religion and “politicized” religion, and the mapping of this division onto the religious tenet of tolerance and its political exhaustion, respectively…
From Antagonism to Agonism
Judith Butler's perception of a shift in feminism's relationship to the state in Antigone's Claim serves as a useful starting point for my reflections in this essay. The familiar feminist representation of Antigone's “defiance” that she describes and questions leads me to an exploration of the political and historical reasons for the turn from the “antagonistic” model of opposition to the state that this literary icon has long represented, toward…
Tribute
Response
The Crisis of Secularism in India
The Crisis of Secularism in India
Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism
Rethinking Law and Violence
This essay focuses on the controversy generated by recent proposed legislation on domestic violence in India. An alternative draft bill on domestic violence prepared by the feminist legal NGO, the Lawyers’ Collective, and supported by women's groups nationally, includes a demand that victims of domestic violence (usually wives) be permitted by law to continue to occupy the domestic home, a demand that the Government bill has refused to include. T…
Real and Imagined Women
An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.
The Scandal of the State
The Postcolonial Jane Austen
Introduction
This paper introduces essays concerned with feminism and politics of resistance in India. The essays constitute contributions to feminist theory and attempt to define and differentiate terms related to the subject matter which are closely identified with each other. The articles briefly described in this paper include 1) Life Experiences Resistance and Feminist Consciousness; 2) The Bleeding Edge: Resistance as Strength and Paralysis; 3) Rokeya S…
Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History
(2000). Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History? Interventions: Vol. 2, Righting Wrongs, Re-writing History, pp. 159-170
Women between Community and State
Research Article| December 01 2000 Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Women between Community and State:…
Shahbano
The Third World Academic in Other Places; Or, the Postcolonial Intellectual Revisited
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Real and Imagined Women
Women between Community and State
Research Article| December 01 2000 Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Women between Community and State:…
Rethinking Law and Violence
This essay focuses on the controversy generated by recent proposed legislation on domestic violence in India. An alternative draft bill on domestic violence prepared by the feminist legal NGO, the Lawyers’ Collective, and supported by women's groups nationally, includes a demand that victims of domestic violence (usually wives) be permitted by law to continue to occupy the domestic home, a demand that the Government bill has refused to include. T…
Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History
(2000). Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History? Interventions: Vol. 2, Righting Wrongs, Re-writing History, pp. 159-170
Ameena
L'A. tente d'identifier un moment et un mode particulier d'insertion des femmes dans le discours de la nation/communaute qui auraient des implications pour la sujetion des femmes et la representation de la nation. A travers deux cas de mariage de filles musulmanes mineures avec des Arabes, l'A. determine la portee des droits politiques, du securalisme liberal et du feminisme dans la lutte sociale contemporaine et leurs limites
After 'Orientalism
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Scope and content: "Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global int…
From Antagonism to Agonism
Judith Butler's perception of a shift in feminism's relationship to the state in Antigone's Claim serves as a useful starting point for my reflections in this essay. The familiar feminist representation of Antigone's “defiance” that she describes and questions leads me to an exploration of the political and historical reasons for the turn from the “antagonistic” model of opposition to the state that this literary icon has long represented, toward…
Introduction
This paper introduces essays concerned with feminism and politics of resistance in India. The essays constitute contributions to feminist theory and attempt to define and differentiate terms related to the subject matter which are closely identified with each other. The articles briefly described in this paper include 1) Life Experiences Resistance and Feminist Consciousness; 2) The Bleeding Edge: Resistance as Strength and Paralysis; 3) Rokeya S…
The Shadow of that Expatriated Prince”
An Ethics of Postcolonial Citizenship
This essay addresses the question of how the ethical values of the postcolonial subject are classed and gendered. A certain kind of postcolonial citizen, enjoying the privileges of birth and position, expresses an attitude that is best described (if somewhat anachronistically) as noblesse oblige. I focus on the writings of a handful of post-Independence Indian women writers, in particular Shama Futehally's novel Tara Lane (1993), as exemplifying …
After 'Orientalism
Shahbano
The Shadow of that Expatriated Prince”
Dialectic of 'Critique
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Real and Imagined Women
Ameena
L'A. tente d'identifier un moment et un mode particulier d'insertion des femmes dans le discours de la nation/communaute qui auraient des implications pour la sujetion des femmes et la representation de la nation. A travers deux cas de mariage de filles musulmanes mineures avec des Arabes, l'A. determine la portee des droits politiques, du securalisme liberal et du feminisme dans la lutte sociale contemporaine et leurs limites
The Third World Academic in Other Places; Or, the Postcolonial Intellectual Revisited
The Postcolonial Jane Austen
Introduction
This paper introduces essays concerned with feminism and politics of resistance in India. The essays constitute contributions to feminist theory and attempt to define and differentiate terms related to the subject matter which are closely identified with each other. The articles briefly described in this paper include 1) Life Experiences Resistance and Feminist Consciousness; 2) The Bleeding Edge: Resistance as Strength and Paralysis; 3) Rokeya S…
Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History
(2000). Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History? Interventions: Vol. 2, Righting Wrongs, Re-writing History, pp. 159-170
Women between Community and State
Research Article| December 01 2000 Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Women between Community and State:…
Real and Imagined Women
An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.
The Scandal of the State
Rethinking Law and Violence
This essay focuses on the controversy generated by recent proposed legislation on domestic violence in India. An alternative draft bill on domestic violence prepared by the feminist legal NGO, the Lawyers’ Collective, and supported by women's groups nationally, includes a demand that victims of domestic violence (usually wives) be permitted by law to continue to occupy the domestic home, a demand that the Government bill has refused to include. T…
Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism
The Crisis of Secularism in India
The Crisis of Secularism in India
Response
From Antagonism to Agonism
Judith Butler's perception of a shift in feminism's relationship to the state in Antigone's Claim serves as a useful starting point for my reflections in this essay. The familiar feminist representation of Antigone's “defiance” that she describes and questions leads me to an exploration of the political and historical reasons for the turn from the “antagonistic” model of opposition to the state that this literary icon has long represented, toward…
Tribute
After Midnight’s Children
The preoccupation with the nation that marks much postcolonial writing, especially the Anglophone novel in India following the appearance of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, has been widely remarked. In this essay I am interested in tracing how this interest in the nation-thematic has persisted into or changed in the course of the first decade of the new century in the fiction (and prose non-fiction) that has appeared since the 1980s, in res…
The Politics of Hindu “Tolerance
That the escalating Hindu violence against minorities has produced a crisis for secularism in present-day India—but not for Hinduism—is an intriguing fact that calls for further analysis. This essay attempts a reexamination of the split between Hinduism and Hindutva, purportedly representing “true” religion and “politicized” religion, and the mapping of this division onto the religious tenet of tolerance and its political exhaustion, respectively…
The Travels of the Organic Intellectual
Questioning Intellectuals - 1 - Reading Caste with Gramsci in Two Indian Literary Texts
Theory in the Mirror of Caste
Sunder Rajan’s essay responds to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory. Its primary focus is the authors’ arguments regarding the absence of original theory in the social sciences in India, and the case they make for the imperative need for such theory. The essay also places Guru and Sarukkai in conversation with Franz Fanon. It is Fanon, Sunder Rajan contends, who speaks most closely …
An Ethics of Postcolonial Citizenship
This essay addresses the question of how the ethical values of the postcolonial subject are classed and gendered. A certain kind of postcolonial citizen, enjoying the privileges of birth and position, expresses an attitude that is best described (if somewhat anachronistically) as noblesse oblige. I focus on the writings of a handful of post-Independence Indian women writers, in particular Shama Futehally's novel Tara Lane (1993), as exemplifying …
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