Shamira A Meghani
Biographic Data
| ID | 104839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shamira A Meghani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shamira A |
| FAMILY NAME | Meghani |
| SIGNATURE | MEGHANI S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8495-2487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child« Critical Plant Theory and the Maiden Mother Conceit in Early Medieval Riddles
While early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has focused on animals at the expense of plants. We respond to both problems by providing the first extensive …
HIV Stigma, Gay Identity, and Caste ‘Untouchability’
White gay men in two post-9/11 novels
This article argues that two recent novels, Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabish Khair’s 2012 How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, navigate the quiet complicities around quotidian post-9/11 Islamophobic suspicion by pairing the surveillance of Muslim “others” with the surveillance of sexual “others”. In particular, it argues that in both texts, narrative form implicates the reader in the surveillance o…
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
Reframing disaster
The following interviews emerge from a research project entitled Representing Postcolonial Disaster: Conflict, Consumption, Reconstruction, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK). Specifically, the interviews formed part of a conference and series of activities on the theme of Reframing Disaster, which took place in Leeds in November–December 2014 and commemorated a series of significant anniversaries in 2014, including th…
Queer Theory and Sexualities
This chapter covers works published in 2010 and is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Constituting Queer: Temporality and Affect; 3. Eroticism and Antiromance in Caribbean Literature; 4. Edited Collections: Queer Cultures, Comparatively.
Queer Theory and Sexualities
The chapter for work published in 2009 is divided into five sections: 1 . ‘Edited Collections’: Homophobias, The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory and ‘You’ve Changed’: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity ; 2 . ‘Histories’ presents new work on sexualities history, Lost Intimacies on homosexuality under National Socialism and work on Sexuality and the Colonial Archive ; 3 . ‘Sexuality Making Meaning’ includes work on nineteenth- and tw…
Queer Theory and Sexualities
Publications in Queer Theory and Sexualities covered in this chapter are from the year 2008, incorporating 2007. This year’s review is divided as follows: 1 . History and Sexuality: books in this section present new histories of sexuality: Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the Sixteenth Century to the Present and Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History , which queries a liberationist queer history; 2. Queer-Race Int…
Articulating “Indianness”
In this article I explore some of the parameters for cinematic representations of women-centered desire in India. Although desire between women has been documented to demonstrate a long presence in history and literature, depictions in film over the last decade have drawn protests from nationalists that these films are "un-Indian." Through films such as Fire (1996), Girlfriend (2004), and The Journey (2004) I discuss the possibilities and limits …
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
Articulating “Indianness”
In this article I explore some of the parameters for cinematic representations of women-centered desire in India. Although desire between women has been documented to demonstrate a long presence in history and literature, depictions in film over the last decade have drawn protests from nationalists that these films are "un-Indian." Through films such as Fire (1996), Girlfriend (2004), and The Journey (2004) I discuss the possibilities and limits …
Reframing disaster
The following interviews emerge from a research project entitled Representing Postcolonial Disaster: Conflict, Consumption, Reconstruction, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK). Specifically, the interviews formed part of a conference and series of activities on the theme of Reframing Disaster, which took place in Leeds in November–December 2014 and commemorated a series of significant anniversaries in 2014, including th…
Articulating “Indianness”
In this article I explore some of the parameters for cinematic representations of women-centered desire in India. Although desire between women has been documented to demonstrate a long presence in history and literature, depictions in film over the last decade have drawn protests from nationalists that these films are "un-Indian." Through films such as Fire (1996), Girlfriend (2004), and The Journey (2004) I discuss the possibilities and limits …
Queer Theory and Sexualities
Publications in Queer Theory and Sexualities covered in this chapter are from the year 2008, incorporating 2007. This year’s review is divided as follows: 1 . History and Sexuality: books in this section present new histories of sexuality: Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the Sixteenth Century to the Present and Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History , which queries a liberationist queer history; 2. Queer-Race Int…
Queer Theory and Sexualities
The chapter for work published in 2009 is divided into five sections: 1 . ‘Edited Collections’: Homophobias, The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory and ‘You’ve Changed’: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity ; 2 . ‘Histories’ presents new work on sexualities history, Lost Intimacies on homosexuality under National Socialism and work on Sexuality and the Colonial Archive ; 3 . ‘Sexuality Making Meaning’ includes work on nineteenth- and tw…
Queer Theory and Sexualities
This chapter covers works published in 2010 and is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Constituting Queer: Temporality and Affect; 3. Eroticism and Antiromance in Caribbean Literature; 4. Edited Collections: Queer Cultures, Comparatively.
Reframing disaster
The following interviews emerge from a research project entitled Representing Postcolonial Disaster: Conflict, Consumption, Reconstruction, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK). Specifically, the interviews formed part of a conference and series of activities on the theme of Reframing Disaster, which took place in Leeds in November–December 2014 and commemorated a series of significant anniversaries in 2014, including th…
White gay men in two post-9/11 novels
This article argues that two recent novels, Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabish Khair’s 2012 How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, navigate the quiet complicities around quotidian post-9/11 Islamophobic suspicion by pairing the surveillance of Muslim “others” with the surveillance of sexual “others”. In particular, it argues that in both texts, narrative form implicates the reader in the surveillance o…
Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in "Other" contexts
Our decision to think about sexuality and postcolonial texts and contexts through the frameworks of sexual dissidence as well as queer theory calls for a brief pause on their differences and simila
HIV Stigma, Gay Identity, and Caste ‘Untouchability’
I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child« Critical Plant Theory and the Maiden Mother Conceit in Early Medieval Riddles
While early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has focused on animals at the expense of plants. We respond to both problems by providing the first extensive …
Sociology (9 works) · Queer (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Queer theory (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)