Merin Simi Raj
Biographic Data
| ID | 208719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merin Simi Raj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merin Simi |
| FAMILY NAME | Raj |
| SIGNATURE | RAJ M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3997-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Memory Studies in India
Plasticity, Corporeality, and Fictional Forms
The postdigital postcolonial
This article examines the Augmented Reality app MemoryBytes , which documents and presents the history and lived experience of the 500-year-old Anglo-Indian community in India, as a site for studying cultural preservation and intergenerational identity-iterations through an intersection of memory studies and digital humanities. Using Johny Miranda’s novella Requiem for the Living (2004) as entry point, this article seeks to trace the diachronic m…
Sustainable Memory Ecology, Entangled Environments, and Multimateriality in a Post-Digital Age
This article examines the interdisciplinary and epistemological possibilities in memory studies amidst the complex systems of sustainable memory ecology, entangled environments , and multimateriality prevalent in our post-digital age. This study situates the ontology and experience of memory through post-digital and posthumanist frameworks whereby the human/non-human and embedded/extended emerge as environmental entanglements that are part of eve…
Women, rememory, and herstory
This article reads Hangwoman (2014) by K.R. Meera as a feminist fiction of memory which narrates the herstory of India through the collective memory of the Grdhha Mullicks, a hangman family in Kolkata. It studies the novel as an example of mnemonic narrative that renders alternative histories of trauma in the lives of those at the margins, particularly, in this case, of women in the hangman family across the generations, through an exploration of…
Memory, Insidious trauma, and Refugee crisis in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015)
This article argues that refugee crises include complex forms of insidious and latent trauma, insufficiently engaged in dominant discourses of trauma studies which largely draw on Western models and cultural experiences, often overlooking various aspects of postcolonial trauma, trauma due to casual violence and racism, and other forms of everyday marginalization which are interstitial, experiential, and quotidian in quality. Through a historical …
Anglo-Indian Identity
The Indulekha Moment and the Malayalam Literary Canon
This article analyses the politics of the literary canon of the early twentieth century Malayalam novels with particular focus on the impact of the novel Indulekha (1889) in literary history. The inception of novel as a literary genre is widely regarded as a point of departure for Malayalam literature leading to the development of modern Malayalam, thereby shaping a distinct Malayali identity. Interestingly, the literary histories which establish…
The Covid-19 crisis chronotope
This article draws on the concept of the chronotope – spatiotemporal entanglements theorized in literary and anthropological studies – and extends the same to an engagement with and an understanding of the experiential and ontological defamiliarization, deceleration and suspension of space, time and security generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article, thus, offers a study of COVID-19 as a connective metaphor and a crisis chronotope – denoti…
"The politics of representation and the "ideal Malayalee woman
This article analyses the early-20th-century Malayalam women’s magazines of Kerala in terms of their politics of representation. These magazines emerged at a time when Kerala was on the cusp of modernity and catered to Malayalee women with the aim of transforming them into “ideal gendered selves”. However, the contributions of these magazines, managed and edited mostly by the early feminists of Kerala, are seldom acknowledged or remembered within…
The Covid-19 crisis chronotope
This article draws on the concept of the chronotope – spatiotemporal entanglements theorized in literary and anthropological studies – and extends the same to an engagement with and an understanding of the experiential and ontological defamiliarization, deceleration and suspension of space, time and security generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article, thus, offers a study of COVID-19 as a connective metaphor and a crisis chronotope – denoti…
"The politics of representation and the "ideal Malayalee woman
This article analyses the early-20th-century Malayalam women’s magazines of Kerala in terms of their politics of representation. These magazines emerged at a time when Kerala was on the cusp of modernity and catered to Malayalee women with the aim of transforming them into “ideal gendered selves”. However, the contributions of these magazines, managed and edited mostly by the early feminists of Kerala, are seldom acknowledged or remembered within…
Anglo-Indian Identity
The Indulekha Moment and the Malayalam Literary Canon
This article analyses the politics of the literary canon of the early twentieth century Malayalam novels with particular focus on the impact of the novel Indulekha (1889) in literary history. The inception of novel as a literary genre is widely regarded as a point of departure for Malayalam literature leading to the development of modern Malayalam, thereby shaping a distinct Malayali identity. Interestingly, the literary histories which establish…
The Covid-19 crisis chronotope
This article draws on the concept of the chronotope – spatiotemporal entanglements theorized in literary and anthropological studies – and extends the same to an engagement with and an understanding of the experiential and ontological defamiliarization, deceleration and suspension of space, time and security generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article, thus, offers a study of COVID-19 as a connective metaphor and a crisis chronotope – denoti…
Memory, Insidious trauma, and Refugee crisis in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015)
This article argues that refugee crises include complex forms of insidious and latent trauma, insufficiently engaged in dominant discourses of trauma studies which largely draw on Western models and cultural experiences, often overlooking various aspects of postcolonial trauma, trauma due to casual violence and racism, and other forms of everyday marginalization which are interstitial, experiential, and quotidian in quality. Through a historical …
Sustainable Memory Ecology, Entangled Environments, and Multimateriality in a Post-Digital Age
This article examines the interdisciplinary and epistemological possibilities in memory studies amidst the complex systems of sustainable memory ecology, entangled environments , and multimateriality prevalent in our post-digital age. This study situates the ontology and experience of memory through post-digital and posthumanist frameworks whereby the human/non-human and embedded/extended emerge as environmental entanglements that are part of eve…
Women, rememory, and herstory
This article reads Hangwoman (2014) by K.R. Meera as a feminist fiction of memory which narrates the herstory of India through the collective memory of the Grdhha Mullicks, a hangman family in Kolkata. It studies the novel as an example of mnemonic narrative that renders alternative histories of trauma in the lives of those at the margins, particularly, in this case, of women in the hangman family across the generations, through an exploration of…
Memory Studies in India
Plasticity, Corporeality, and Fictional Forms
The postdigital postcolonial
This article examines the Augmented Reality app MemoryBytes , which documents and presents the history and lived experience of the 500-year-old Anglo-Indian community in India, as a site for studying cultural preservation and intergenerational identity-iterations through an intersection of memory studies and digital humanities. Using Johny Miranda’s novella Requiem for the Living (2004) as entry point, this article seeks to trace the diachronic m…
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