Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anuradha Dingwaney Needham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anuradha Dingwaney |
| FAMILY NAME | Needham |
| SIGNATURE | NEEDHAM A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unsettling India
Performing Wom[e]n” and the Gendered National Imagination
Focusing on the eponymous Shyam Benegal film, Sardari Begum (1996), with intermittent reference as well to his Bhumika (The Role; 1976) and Mandi (Marketplace; 1983), this essay explores the relationship of performing women to the gendered, modernizing agendas of the Indian nation-state. Reprising the career of women who represented professions, identities, and cultural repertoires that flourished under, and were indelibly associated with a feuda…
Statist Realism And Its Discontents
This essay engages critically with the dismissal of Shyam Benegal's films as representing instances of “seeing like the state” (to use James Scott's resonant terms) because of their deployment of a realist aesthetic often tagged as “statist” or “developmental” by film scholars like Madhava Prasad. It argues, instead, for a different spectatorial position that locates the subaltern female subject oppressed by (patriarchal) feudal ideologies at its…
Response
The Crisis of Secularism in India
The Crisis of Secularism in India
The Small Voice of History' in Arundhati Roy'sthe God of Small Things
This essay argues that Ranajit Guha's ‘The small voice of history’ and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things are defined by, and help define, the contemporary ‘historical-political conjuncture’ that locates the motors of social, disciplinary, and epistemological transformation in the inherently or potentially resistant properties of the oppressed subaltern subject. A comparative reading of two generically different cultural artifacts – a theore…
Dwelling in the Archive
Reviewed by: Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. X + 202 A book concerned primarily with mapping three twentieth-century Indian women’s preoccupation, in their writings, with “house and home [as] central to their s…
Needham on Césaire
Reviewed by: Discourse on Colonialism Anuradha Needham Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley, “ A Poetics of Anticolonialism.” (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000) In an interview he gave in Spring 1974 at Binghamton, New York, C.L.R. James recalls Aimé Césaire’s intellectual formation in colonial schools, first in Martinique, and then in Paris. In these schools, he studied “‘L…
Inhabiting the Metropole
The Small Voice of History' in Arundhati Roy'sthe God of Small Things
This essay argues that Ranajit Guha's ‘The small voice of history’ and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things are defined by, and help define, the contemporary ‘historical-political conjuncture’ that locates the motors of social, disciplinary, and epistemological transformation in the inherently or potentially resistant properties of the oppressed subaltern subject. A comparative reading of two generically different cultural artifacts – a theore…
Performing Wom[e]n” and the Gendered National Imagination
Focusing on the eponymous Shyam Benegal film, Sardari Begum (1996), with intermittent reference as well to his Bhumika (The Role; 1976) and Mandi (Marketplace; 1983), this essay explores the relationship of performing women to the gendered, modernizing agendas of the Indian nation-state. Reprising the career of women who represented professions, identities, and cultural repertoires that flourished under, and were indelibly associated with a feuda…
Inhabiting the Metropole
Needham on Césaire
Reviewed by: Discourse on Colonialism Anuradha Needham Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley, “ A Poetics of Anticolonialism.” (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000) In an interview he gave in Spring 1974 at Binghamton, New York, C.L.R. James recalls Aimé Césaire’s intellectual formation in colonial schools, first in Martinique, and then in Paris. In these schools, he studied “‘L…
Dwelling in the Archive
Reviewed by: Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. X + 202 A book concerned primarily with mapping three twentieth-century Indian women’s preoccupation, in their writings, with “house and home [as] central to their s…
The Small Voice of History' in Arundhati Roy'sthe God of Small Things
This essay argues that Ranajit Guha's ‘The small voice of history’ and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things are defined by, and help define, the contemporary ‘historical-political conjuncture’ that locates the motors of social, disciplinary, and epistemological transformation in the inherently or potentially resistant properties of the oppressed subaltern subject. A comparative reading of two generically different cultural artifacts – a theore…
The Crisis of Secularism in India
The Crisis of Secularism in India
Response
Statist Realism And Its Discontents
This essay engages critically with the dismissal of Shyam Benegal's films as representing instances of “seeing like the state” (to use James Scott's resonant terms) because of their deployment of a realist aesthetic often tagged as “statist” or “developmental” by film scholars like Madhava Prasad. It argues, instead, for a different spectatorial position that locates the subaltern female subject oppressed by (patriarchal) feudal ideologies at its…
Performing Wom[e]n” and the Gendered National Imagination
Focusing on the eponymous Shyam Benegal film, Sardari Begum (1996), with intermittent reference as well to his Bhumika (The Role; 1976) and Mandi (Marketplace; 1983), this essay explores the relationship of performing women to the gendered, modernizing agendas of the Indian nation-state. Reprising the career of women who represented professions, identities, and cultural repertoires that flourished under, and were indelibly associated with a feuda…
Unsettling India
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)