B Venkat Mani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1116612 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Venkat Mani |
| NOMBRES | B Venkat |
| APELLIDO | Mani |
| FIRMA | MANI B V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2173-5658 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Of Homes and Worlds
Learning to Breathe
Learning to BreatheFive Fragments Against Racism B. Venkat Mani (bio) For Dr. JLW, for all Black academics and students 1. Air Hunger I know you, Derek Chauvin. You may think that we first met on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis. I was called George Perry Floyd. For you, I was just another Black man, a potential criminal. For me, you were not a police officer, but the knee that stands for racism. You kneeled on my windpipe for 9 minutes and 29 second…
Decolonizing Reading Publics, Decompartmentalizing German Studies
This essay focuses on the contemporary German literary public spheres, zooming in on the relation between a republic and its reading public. In the fraught political topography of contemporary Germany, marked by the arrival and eventual acceptance of over one million Syrian refugees since 2015, the rise of the extreme right-wing party Alternatives for Germany, resurgence of discussion on German colonialism in Africa, and extended public debate ar…
World Literature
Rina Banerjee
Forum
Beyond Bollywood
This essay examines Beyond Bollywood , a landmark exhibition about South Asian Americans at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Focusing on the curatorial premise of the exhibition, the aesthetic objects it incorporates, and viewers’ affective relations to these objects, I argue that Beyond Bollywood generates a rich repertoire of feelings that reframe the relationship between visuality and representation in Asian American exhibit…
Performing China
Archives of Empire
In Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force, the Pakistani artist Seher Shah works with archival images of the 1903 Delhi Durbar and contemporary images of the U.S. “war on terror.” This essay examines how Shah's digital print binds together theaters of U.S. and British imperialism across the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, with specific attention to the performative effects of photography. Recent debates on the uses of the archive …
Viewing South Asia, Seeing America
Viewing South Asia, Seeing AmericaGauri Gill's "The Americans" Bakirathi Mani (bio) Gauri Gill: The Americans. Organized by Bose Pacia / Nature Morte Galleries. Bose Pacia, Kolkata, February 16-March 8, 2008; Nature Morte, New Delhi, March 15-29, 2008; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai, April 10-24, 2008; Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, California, July 8-August 17, 2008; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, October 4-December 28, 2008; Bo…
Rehearsing Acquired Privileges
This article surmises the position and ambition of a nonnative speaker/teacher of a European language and literature as an ostensible facilitator of cultural difference in the U.S. foreign-language classroom. The paper opens a space to think through pedagogical conceptuality and the practice of assisting and guiding students in their perceptions of cultural difference in the specific situation when the instructor carries visible inscriptions of h…
German Studies as Perpetual Difference
Beauty Queens
Research Article| August 01 2006 Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant Bakirathi Mani Bakirathi Mani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (3): 717–747. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-019 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bakirathi Mani; Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transn…
The Largest Gathering of the Global Indian Family
Mani and Varadarajan examine the first annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ("Day of Indians Abroad"), a conference organized by India's government that in 2003 attracted more than 2,000 persons of Indian origin from around the world, including the descendants of indentured laborers in the Caribbean as well as Silicon Valley professionals. Culminating a decade of neoliberal economic reforms initiated by the Indian government, this and other Pravasi Bha…
Beauty Queens
Research Article| August 01 2006 Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant Bakirathi Mani Bakirathi Mani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (3): 717–747. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-019 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bakirathi Mani; Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transn…
The Largest Gathering of the Global Indian Family
Mani and Varadarajan examine the first annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ("Day of Indians Abroad"), a conference organized by India's government that in 2003 attracted more than 2,000 persons of Indian origin from around the world, including the descendants of indentured laborers in the Caribbean as well as Silicon Valley professionals. Culminating a decade of neoliberal economic reforms initiated by the Indian government, this and other Pravasi Bha…
Viewing South Asia, Seeing America
Viewing South Asia, Seeing AmericaGauri Gill's "The Americans" Bakirathi Mani (bio) Gauri Gill: The Americans. Organized by Bose Pacia / Nature Morte Galleries. Bose Pacia, Kolkata, February 16-March 8, 2008; Nature Morte, New Delhi, March 15-29, 2008; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai, April 10-24, 2008; Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, California, July 8-August 17, 2008; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, October 4-December 28, 2008; Bo…
Beyond Bollywood
This essay examines Beyond Bollywood , a landmark exhibition about South Asian Americans at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Focusing on the curatorial premise of the exhibition, the aesthetic objects it incorporates, and viewers’ affective relations to these objects, I argue that Beyond Bollywood generates a rich repertoire of feelings that reframe the relationship between visuality and representation in Asian American exhibit…
The Largest Gathering of the Global Indian Family
Mani and Varadarajan examine the first annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ("Day of Indians Abroad"), a conference organized by India's government that in 2003 attracted more than 2,000 persons of Indian origin from around the world, including the descendants of indentured laborers in the Caribbean as well as Silicon Valley professionals. Culminating a decade of neoliberal economic reforms initiated by the Indian government, this and other Pravasi Bha…
German Studies as Perpetual Difference
Beauty Queens
Research Article| August 01 2006 Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant Bakirathi Mani Bakirathi Mani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (3): 717–747. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-019 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bakirathi Mani; Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transn…
Rehearsing Acquired Privileges
This article surmises the position and ambition of a nonnative speaker/teacher of a European language and literature as an ostensible facilitator of cultural difference in the U.S. foreign-language classroom. The paper opens a space to think through pedagogical conceptuality and the practice of assisting and guiding students in their perceptions of cultural difference in the specific situation when the instructor carries visible inscriptions of h…
Viewing South Asia, Seeing America
Viewing South Asia, Seeing AmericaGauri Gill's "The Americans" Bakirathi Mani (bio) Gauri Gill: The Americans. Organized by Bose Pacia / Nature Morte Galleries. Bose Pacia, Kolkata, February 16-March 8, 2008; Nature Morte, New Delhi, March 15-29, 2008; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai, April 10-24, 2008; Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, California, July 8-August 17, 2008; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, October 4-December 28, 2008; Bo…
Archives of Empire
In Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force, the Pakistani artist Seher Shah works with archival images of the 1903 Delhi Durbar and contemporary images of the U.S. “war on terror.” This essay examines how Shah's digital print binds together theaters of U.S. and British imperialism across the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, with specific attention to the performative effects of photography. Recent debates on the uses of the archive …
Performing China
Beyond Bollywood
This essay examines Beyond Bollywood , a landmark exhibition about South Asian Americans at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Focusing on the curatorial premise of the exhibition, the aesthetic objects it incorporates, and viewers’ affective relations to these objects, I argue that Beyond Bollywood generates a rich repertoire of feelings that reframe the relationship between visuality and representation in Asian American exhibit…
Forum
Rina Banerjee
World Literature
Learning to Breathe
Learning to BreatheFive Fragments Against Racism B. Venkat Mani (bio) For Dr. JLW, for all Black academics and students 1. Air Hunger I know you, Derek Chauvin. You may think that we first met on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis. I was called George Perry Floyd. For you, I was just another Black man, a potential criminal. For me, you were not a police officer, but the knee that stands for racism. You kneeled on my windpipe for 9 minutes and 29 second…
Decolonizing Reading Publics, Decompartmentalizing German Studies
This essay focuses on the contemporary German literary public spheres, zooming in on the relation between a republic and its reading public. In the fraught political topography of contemporary Germany, marked by the arrival and eventual acceptance of over one million Syrian refugees since 2015, the rise of the extreme right-wing party Alternatives for Germany, resurgence of discussion on German colonialism in Africa, and extended public debate ar…
Of Homes and Worlds
History (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · German (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras)