Sarbani Banerjee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3787310 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarbani Banerjee |
| NOMBRES | Sarbani |
| APELLIDO | Banerjee |
| FIRMA | BANERJEE S |
| AFILIACIONES | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1741-2445 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Reading strokes
This visual essay embarks on an analytical exploration of participatory, post-trauma based storytelling through painting. It curates, studies and situates the contemporary Rohingya art movement as a global art movement emerging from the history of violence and displacement in the Global South. It focuses on performative act of painting as a post-trauma coping mechanism which contributes to the making, preserving and restoring the collective memor…
Caste and media
The issue of caste and cinema becomes crucial for discussion because, on the one side, it provides us the scope to scrutinize the Dalit side of the narrative. Conversely, it also allows us to analy
“I Think Hope Coexists with Pain and Trauma.” Questioning Patricia McCormick About Sold, Child Trafficking, and Sexual Violence
Decoding the Interlocking Factors of Caste-Gender Dynamism, Intersectionality and Suffering in the Web Series Dahaad
This article intends to analyze the intermingled relationship between caste and gender and its intertwining impact in the case of the subjugation of the Dalit women’s section in India. Reema Kagti’s Dahaad (2023) is a web series that depicts how caste, as a societal marker, class, as an economic marker, and gender positioning make the Dalit women doubly oppressed compared to their Dalit male counterparts. Interestingly, for a prolonged time, the …
Literary representation of the Indian Adivasi woman’s challenges
Jacinta Kerketta is one of the most renowned Adivasi poets in Eastern India. The literary research on Adivasi communities has centred on their oral narratives, which are integral to their culture and often compiled by colonisers or outsiders. However, they also contribute to contemporary forms of writing, such as poetry and prose, which are often sidelined by mainstream publishing houses that suppress their voices. The Adivasi women writers are d…
Of books and their covers
The conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bonita Vaz-Shimray focuses on how the paratextual materiality of a book shapes the reception of postcolonial publishing. The interview takes Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel Independence as a case in point to elicit the nuances of a cover design and to unfurl the significance of covers, and their pictorial representation in the marketing and reception of a book. The discussion examines variou…
Decoding Post-Partition Traumatic Suffering, Migration, and Testimony
Drawing on a reading of Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit (2018), this article analyzes the traumatic experiences of the Bengali Dalit refugees who witnessed the darkest days of the Partition of India in 1947 and post-Partition conditions in the host nation. It examines the literature on refugee migration, trauma, notions of suffering, displacement, and history. Byapari’s autobiographical narrative re…
In-Between” Heterotopia and “Other” Spaces
This paper examines the digital media platform YouTube as the "other," heterotopic and liminal space that enables the articulation of queer South Asian diasporic subjectivities otherwise marginalized within normative socio-cultural frameworks. Through analyzing select YouTube poems by Alok Vaid-Menon and Fatimah Asghar, the paper situates YouTube digital poetics as alternate spaces of resistance, metaphor of "in-between" and/or "elsewhere" that d…
Remembering and Dislocation
This paper offers a nuanced reading of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West , examining the refugee experience through the intertwined prisms of memory, materiality and imagination. Set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, the novel traces the journey of Saeed and Nadia as they escape militant violence via mystical doors that transport them to alternate worlds marked by segregation, encampment and exile. The study foregrounds how the characters' embodied pe…
Experientiality of Space in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind
This article examines how history has never been transparent but is always in liaison with memory by considering Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind, a novel that foregrounds individual memory and warps it into collective memory through the acts of remembering and forgetting. Narrated from the perspective not only of the natives but also of the British, who overstayed their welcome and transmogrified the land and culture, this novel is a prud…
Exemplifying Inclusivity
Posing two different spectrums of positioning disability within an ableist world, films such as Guzaarish (2010) and Me Before You (2016) contemplate the conflict between the right to life and the t right to die in the context of euthanasia. The transformation phase of the protagonists from able-bodied to disabled in the mentioned films serves as the conduit to examine the impediments of disabled masculinity. The paper challenges the normative co…
“I am not anyone’s servant. I am my own master”
“Identify me as [ … ] Manipuri Indigenous nupi maanbi (transwoman)”
Caste pride
Behind Every Statistic is a Human Story Worth Telling”
Defamiliarizing memory and refugeedom in JJ Bola’s No Place to Call Home
Food and (curry) culture in Indian diaspora
Ectogenesis, Co-pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Labour in The Growing Season
This interview with the biophysicist and author Helen Sedgwick explores the politics of reproductive labour and co-pregnancy in her novel The Growing Season (2017). The conversation touches on the role of emerging reproductive technologies, like extra-uterine gestation or ectogenesis, and discusses how such technologies subvert heteronormal family structures by democratising the process of human reproduction. The interview explores the changing c…
Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect
This paper examines the Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s novel The Mountains Sing (2020) through the lens of postmemory and trauma, focusing on the traumatic affect experienced by the characters and its articulation through literary form. This multigenerational tale is situated in the precincts of the Vietnamese War, Land Reforms by the Communist government, and the Great Famine. The poignant narrative covers four generations of the Trân f…
Mapping the spatiality of the Indian Indigenous woman
This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph's novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budhini, a Santal woman treated as an outcast by her community. It analyzes the figuration of an Indigenous woman as a nomadic subject in Indian society w…
Examining Ableist Narratives
The concepts such as ‘normal’, ‘normalcy’ and ‘able-bodied’ set the parameter in an able-society to evaluate a person’s ability and disability. The ableist conscious inherent in the representation of the disabled in Malayalam cinema has been celebrated in the early 1990s to the end of 2010s, and the auteurs of the film themselves claim that their films support the community through these representations. Disability depictions often vacillate betw…
“Trauma scrambles things, trauma fragments…” A cross-cultural conversation with Corban Addison in the context of A Walk Across the Sun
"A capacious hermeneutics" of The World That Belongs to Us
Reading Bhadralok Cultural Memory, Kitsch And Culture Industry In Ritwik Ghatak’s Films
The paper problematizes Ghatak’s Marxist treatment of the Bengali as well as the Brahmanical repertoire of cultural knowledge, for the purpose of carving out a Communist significance of the period. Rather than a recontextualization of traditional myths, the paper reads in this attitude a nostalgic particularistic abstraction of a rich array of aesthetic ideas, which are best appreciated in their diverse cultural context. The paper argues that Gha…
Feminism as world literature
Family Influences on Alcohol Abuse and Other Problem Behaviors Among Black and White Adolescents in a General Population Sample
There is a lack of systematic research on family influences on the development of drinking patterns of Black and White adolescents. These issues are examined in an ongoing longitudinal study using a representative household sample of 699 adolescents, ages 13 to 16 at Time 1, as well as their parents, in metropolitan Buffalo, New York. Black families were oversampled, yielding data on 210 Black adolescents and their parents. Although Black familie…
Family Cohesion as a Buffer Against the Effects of Problem-Drinking Fathers on Psychological Distress, Deviant Behavior, and Heavy Drinking in Adolescents
In this paper we examine the degree to which family cohesion buffers the effects of fathers' problem drinking at Time 1 (T1) on adolescent distress, deviance, and heavy drinking at Time 2 (T2), one year later. Data from a representative sample of 658 families were used to test the hypotheses. Mothers, fathers (if present), and adolescent children were interviewed in the home. Fathers who were present completed self-report scales measuring problem…
Supported Employment in New York State
The rapid growth of supported employment programs in the last five years has been accompanied by the strong belief that through such programs many people with severe disabilities would be more satisfied with their lives and receive higher earnings than in sheltered workshops, work activity centers, and adult day care. This paper presents data collected in New York State that test these propositions and compare the benefits with the costs of opera…
Family Influences on Alcohol Abuse and Other Problem Behaviors Among Black and White Adolescents in a General Population Sample
There is a lack of systematic research on family influences on the development of drinking patterns of Black and White adolescents. These issues are examined in an ongoing longitudinal study using a representative household sample of 699 adolescents, ages 13 to 16 at Time 1, as well as their parents, in metropolitan Buffalo, New York. Black families were oversampled, yielding data on 210 Black adolescents and their parents. Although Black familie…
Family Cohesion as a Buffer Against the Effects of Problem-Drinking Fathers on Psychological Distress, Deviant Behavior, and Heavy Drinking in Adolescents
In this paper we examine the degree to which family cohesion buffers the effects of fathers' problem drinking at Time 1 (T1) on adolescent distress, deviance, and heavy drinking at Time 2 (T2), one year later. Data from a representative sample of 658 families were used to test the hypotheses. Mothers, fathers (if present), and adolescent children were interviewed in the home. Fathers who were present completed self-report scales measuring problem…
Education Intercepting The Dalit Way of Being
Through readings of Adhir Biswas’ memoirs – Deshbhager Smriti [2010 Biswas, Adhir. 2010. Deshbhager Smriti. 4 vols. Kolkata: Gangchil. [Google Scholar]. 4 vols. Kolkata: Gangchil] and Allar jomite paa [2012. Kolkata: Gangchil] – as well as Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical work Itibritte Chandal Jibon (2012), I study the importance of education in the lives of first-generation literate Bengali Dalit immigrants. I evaluate the journey of Biswa…
Different Identity Formations in Bengal Partition Narratives by Dalit Refugees
This essay examines the representation of Dalit refugees’ experiences in post-Partition West Bengal through Adhir Biswas’ memoirs Deshbhager smriti ([Biswas, Adhir. 2010. Deshbhager Smriti. 4 vols. Kolkata: Gangchil], Bengali) and Allar jomite paa ([Biswas, Adhir. 2012 Biswas, Adhir. 2012. Allar jomite paa. Kolkata: Gangchil. [Google Scholar]. Allar jomite paa. Kolkata: Gangchil], Bengali) and Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical work Itibritte …
Women in Doyamoyeer Katha – Alternative Agency in a Rural Scenario
In this paper, I study the female characters across different generations as they are portrayed in Sunanda Sikdar’s memoir Doyamoyeer Katha (Doyamoyee's Tale 2008, Bengali). I examine how these women behave in un-stereotypical manner and learn mainly from their experiences in everyday life. In many instances, womanhood in Doyamoyeer Katha is presented through contradictory traits of oppression and power. These women defy patriarchal norms in thei…
Gender submerging the caste-class question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi's The River Churning
This article examines how Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Bengali novel The River Churning (Epar Ganga Opar Ganga), first published in 1967, can be read not only in terms of the female protagonist and riot victim’s gendered trauma and emotional hurdles, but also as her ambitious journey to achieve bhadralok-centric caste- and class-based social goals. It argues that it is inadequate to look at the post-Partition crises of a female riot victim only through the…
Dil Se and Gulaab Gang — “Me-Too” by the Women at the Margins
Through a reading of Gulaab Gang and Dil Se, the paper examines how underrepresentedwomen from the margins of the post-independent Indian society understand genderedviolence and intercept the mainstream political and nationalistic events. The two filmsrevolve around females that occupy marginal positions in ethnic, caste, and ideologicalterms. They are juxtaposed for understanding how they differently consider the questions 35of bodily love and v…
Reading Bhadralok Cultural Memory, Kitsch And Culture Industry In Ritwik Ghatak’s Films
The paper problematizes Ghatak’s Marxist treatment of the Bengali as well as the Brahmanical repertoire of cultural knowledge, for the purpose of carving out a Communist significance of the period. Rather than a recontextualization of traditional myths, the paper reads in this attitude a nostalgic particularistic abstraction of a rich array of aesthetic ideas, which are best appreciated in their diverse cultural context. The paper argues that Gha…
Human crises and the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only claimed innumerable lives but the concomitant inflation has also frustrated many small and large enterprises, not to mention the loss of jobs that employees have suffered and sometimes succumbed to through self-harm and suicides. In this context, this paper probes how a politics of representation has deeply informed the dissemination and consumption of ‘COVID news,’ rendering a legitimate visibility largely to t…
Examining Ableist Narratives
The concepts such as ‘normal’, ‘normalcy’ and ‘able-bodied’ set the parameter in an able-society to evaluate a person’s ability and disability. The ableist conscious inherent in the representation of the disabled in Malayalam cinema has been celebrated in the early 1990s to the end of 2010s, and the auteurs of the film themselves claim that their films support the community through these representations. Disability depictions often vacillate betw…
“Trauma scrambles things, trauma fragments…” A cross-cultural conversation with Corban Addison in the context of A Walk Across the Sun
Feminism as world literature
"A capacious hermeneutics" of The World That Belongs to Us
Experientiality of Space in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind
This article examines how history has never been transparent but is always in liaison with memory by considering Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind, a novel that foregrounds individual memory and warps it into collective memory through the acts of remembering and forgetting. Narrated from the perspective not only of the natives but also of the British, who overstayed their welcome and transmogrified the land and culture, this novel is a prud…
Exemplifying Inclusivity
Posing two different spectrums of positioning disability within an ableist world, films such as Guzaarish (2010) and Me Before You (2016) contemplate the conflict between the right to life and the t right to die in the context of euthanasia. The transformation phase of the protagonists from able-bodied to disabled in the mentioned films serves as the conduit to examine the impediments of disabled masculinity. The paper challenges the normative co…
“I am not anyone’s servant. I am my own master”
“Identify me as [ … ] Manipuri Indigenous nupi maanbi (transwoman)”
Caste pride
Behind Every Statistic is a Human Story Worth Telling”
Defamiliarizing memory and refugeedom in JJ Bola’s No Place to Call Home
Food and (curry) culture in Indian diaspora
Ectogenesis, Co-pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Labour in The Growing Season
This interview with the biophysicist and author Helen Sedgwick explores the politics of reproductive labour and co-pregnancy in her novel The Growing Season (2017). The conversation touches on the role of emerging reproductive technologies, like extra-uterine gestation or ectogenesis, and discusses how such technologies subvert heteronormal family structures by democratising the process of human reproduction. The interview explores the changing c…
Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect
This paper examines the Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s novel The Mountains Sing (2020) through the lens of postmemory and trauma, focusing on the traumatic affect experienced by the characters and its articulation through literary form. This multigenerational tale is situated in the precincts of the Vietnamese War, Land Reforms by the Communist government, and the Great Famine. The poignant narrative covers four generations of the Trân f…
Mapping the spatiality of the Indian Indigenous woman
This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph's novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budhini, a Santal woman treated as an outcast by her community. It analyzes the figuration of an Indigenous woman as a nomadic subject in Indian society w…
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