Mrinalini Chakravorty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1202725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mrinalini Chakravorty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mrinalini |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravorty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVORTY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Anticolonialism's "Homosexual Territory
Frantz Fanon's powerful conception of racial anticolonialism occurs in the shadow of his vexed treatment of homosexuality. This essay considers the traffic between Fanon's anticoloniality and the recalcitrance of queer transnational writers to argue that sexuality obtains a political force in their fiction through specific citational practices. It explores how fabulation and farce enable a citational queer of color aesthetics that circulates arou…
No Future for South Asia
The Human Recycled
This article reads Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) to consider the questions of subjectivation and commodification motivating postcolonial critiques of power. The authors suggest that in the film, the assertion of sovereignty is articulated through the politicization of death and a reckoning of the dying body, through what Achille Mbembe refers to as "necropolitics." Drawing on the work of Mbembe, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, …
The Human Recycled
This article reads Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) to consider the questions of subjectivation and commodification motivating postcolonial critiques of power. The authors suggest that in the film, the assertion of sovereignty is articulated through the politicization of death and a reckoning of the dying body, through what Achille Mbembe refers to as "necropolitics." Drawing on the work of Mbembe, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, …
No Future for South Asia
"Anticolonialism's "Homosexual Territory
Frantz Fanon's powerful conception of racial anticolonialism occurs in the shadow of his vexed treatment of homosexuality. This essay considers the traffic between Fanon's anticoloniality and the recalcitrance of queer transnational writers to argue that sexuality obtains a political force in their fiction through specific citational practices. It explores how fabulation and farce enable a citational queer of color aesthetics that circulates arou…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work)