Debarati Sanyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debarati Sanyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debarati |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanyal |
| SIGNATURE | SANYAL D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Response
Concentrationary Cinema
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog ( Nuit et Brouillard ) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, id…
Proximities
U D I T H BUTLER I S to read in community, joining what are now generations of readers around the world.It is to court the experience of disorientation, exhilaration, alienation, or uncanny recognition that entering (however incompletely) into the thought of another variously affords.To read Butler is also to read Butler reading and thus to encounter both the example and the challenge of reading well.In creating this special issue, we invited a n…
Race, Migration, and Security at the Euro-African Border
Race, Migration, and Security at the Euro-African Border Debarati Sanyal1 (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Abou Ouattara in a suitcase (ABC News) On May 8, 2015, an x-ray image taken at the border of Ceuta revealed a living boy from the Ivory Coast hidden in a suitcase hauled by a Moroccan woman. The child's father lived on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura and had tried to bring his son over from the Ivory Coast legal…
Humanitarian Detention and Figures of Persistence at the Border
Starting with Alan Kurdi as the “ideal” figure of the refugee, juxtaposed with the figure of the migrant swarm, which rehearses the contrast between humanitarian compassion and securitarian anxiety, this essay traces how these seemingly opposed logics meet in the “humanitarian” detention of children at Europe's borders. This essay examines the partial reinscription of colonial histories and their racist aftermaths in current technologies of surve…
"Calais's "Jungle
In fall 2016, the French state razed Calais's "jungle," encampments that had sheltered close to 10,000 refugees. An analysis of film and photography set in the "jungle" highlights practices of resistance to the interplay of humanitarian compassion and securitarian repression in the destruction of contemporary camps, nuancing the view of borderscapes as sites of total biopolitical capture, and of refugees as "bare life
Memory and Complicity
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a "memory-in-complicity" attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject pos…
The Violence of Modernity
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity
Charles Baudelaire, possibly the most influential author of nineteenth-century France, created a poetics of modernity and a thematics of the city; he transcended genre by moving between poetry and prose. He is also the most accessible of modern French poets to an American readership. These essays examine Baudelaire's poetics and the complex relationship between the poet and his twentieth-century literary heirs, including Rene Char, Yves Bonnefoy,…
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In History, Dominick LaCapra provides a broad-ranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical attempts to come to terms with trauma as well as the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies-particularly H…
A Soccer Match in Auschwitz
IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING of a commonplace in recent criticism to claim that the Holocaust inaugurates a ''crisis of representation.'' To read, understand, and transmit a historical trauma of this magnitude is to confront the boundaries of the thinkable and the sayable. This essay critically examines the emergence of a theoretical current that presents the Holocaust primarily as a trauma that - as trauma - opens up unlocatable and unrepresentable f…
The Tie That Binds
Broken Engagements
Memory and Complicity
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a "memory-in-complicity" attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject pos…
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In History, Dominick LaCapra provides a broad-ranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical attempts to come to terms with trauma as well as the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies-particularly H…
A Soccer Match in Auschwitz
IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING of a commonplace in recent criticism to claim that the Holocaust inaugurates a ''crisis of representation.'' To read, understand, and transmit a historical trauma of this magnitude is to confront the boundaries of the thinkable and the sayable. This essay critically examines the emergence of a theoretical current that presents the Holocaust primarily as a trauma that - as trauma - opens up unlocatable and unrepresentable f…
"Calais's "Jungle
In fall 2016, the French state razed Calais's "jungle," encampments that had sheltered close to 10,000 refugees. An analysis of film and photography set in the "jungle" highlights practices of resistance to the interplay of humanitarian compassion and securitarian repression in the destruction of contemporary camps, nuancing the view of borderscapes as sites of total biopolitical capture, and of refugees as "bare life
Broken Engagements
The Tie That Binds
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In History, Dominick LaCapra provides a broad-ranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical attempts to come to terms with trauma as well as the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies-particularly H…
A Soccer Match in Auschwitz
IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING of a commonplace in recent criticism to claim that the Holocaust inaugurates a ''crisis of representation.'' To read, understand, and transmit a historical trauma of this magnitude is to confront the boundaries of the thinkable and the sayable. This essay critically examines the emergence of a theoretical current that presents the Holocaust primarily as a trauma that - as trauma - opens up unlocatable and unrepresentable f…
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity
Charles Baudelaire, possibly the most influential author of nineteenth-century France, created a poetics of modernity and a thematics of the city; he transcended genre by moving between poetry and prose. He is also the most accessible of modern French poets to an American readership. These essays examine Baudelaire's poetics and the complex relationship between the poet and his twentieth-century literary heirs, including Rene Char, Yves Bonnefoy,…
The Violence of Modernity
Memory and Complicity
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a "memory-in-complicity" attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject pos…
"Calais's "Jungle
In fall 2016, the French state razed Calais's "jungle," encampments that had sheltered close to 10,000 refugees. An analysis of film and photography set in the "jungle" highlights practices of resistance to the interplay of humanitarian compassion and securitarian repression in the destruction of contemporary camps, nuancing the view of borderscapes as sites of total biopolitical capture, and of refugees as "bare life
Humanitarian Detention and Figures of Persistence at the Border
Starting with Alan Kurdi as the “ideal” figure of the refugee, juxtaposed with the figure of the migrant swarm, which rehearses the contrast between humanitarian compassion and securitarian anxiety, this essay traces how these seemingly opposed logics meet in the “humanitarian” detention of children at Europe's borders. This essay examines the partial reinscription of colonial histories and their racist aftermaths in current technologies of surve…
Race, Migration, and Security at the Euro-African Border
Race, Migration, and Security at the Euro-African Border Debarati Sanyal1 (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Abou Ouattara in a suitcase (ABC News) On May 8, 2015, an x-ray image taken at the border of Ceuta revealed a living boy from the Ivory Coast hidden in a suitcase hauled by a Moroccan woman. The child's father lived on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura and had tried to bring his son over from the Ivory Coast legal…
Concentrationary Cinema
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog ( Nuit et Brouillard ) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, id…
Proximities
U D I T H BUTLER I S to read in community, joining what are now generations of readers around the world.It is to court the experience of disorientation, exhilaration, alienation, or uncanny recognition that entering (however incompletely) into the thought of another variously affords.To read Butler is also to read Butler reading and thus to encounter both the example and the challenge of reading well.In creating this special issue, we invited a n…
Response
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works)