Kavita Daiya
Biographic Data
| ID | 228679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kavita Daiya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kavita |
| FAMILY NAME | Daiya |
| SIGNATURE | DAIYA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
South Asia in Graphic Narratives
Visual culture and violence
The 1947 Partition of India has recently re-emerged as a thematic concern of many South Asian films about nationalism in popular and parallel cinema. These films invoke the 1947 Partition in both productive and troubling ways: they connect it to the contemplation of the role of religion in the contemporary nation-state, and of the impact of religious ethnicity, terrorism and gender on the experience of citizenship in both India and Pakistan. Rece…
Home and the nation
This article engages with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to globalization and migration, and argues for their rethinking through postcolonial literature. It contends that the representation of migrant women and refugees in Nadine Gordimer's and Amitav Ghosh's fiction shows that we need to re‐examine not only the dominant, popular ideologies of the nation as "home" and citizenship as "belonging" but also the relations between violence, c…
Guest Editors' Column
Provincializing America
Honourable Resolutions”
Khushwant Singh's 1956 novel Train to Pakistan features crucial moment in which Hukum Ghand, the magistrate sent to maintain law and order in the village of Mano Majra in 1947, reflects critically on the dominant image that emblematized Indian independence internationally: What were the people in Delhi doing? Making fine speeches in the assembly! Loud-speakers magnifying their egos; lovely-looking foreign women in the visitors' galleries in breat…
Home and the nation
This article engages with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to globalization and migration, and argues for their rethinking through postcolonial literature. It contends that the representation of migrant women and refugees in Nadine Gordimer's and Amitav Ghosh's fiction shows that we need to re‐examine not only the dominant, popular ideologies of the nation as "home" and citizenship as "belonging" but also the relations between violence, c…
Provincializing America
Honourable Resolutions”
Khushwant Singh's 1956 novel Train to Pakistan features crucial moment in which Hukum Ghand, the magistrate sent to maintain law and order in the village of Mano Majra in 1947, reflects critically on the dominant image that emblematized Indian independence internationally: What were the people in Delhi doing? Making fine speeches in the assembly! Loud-speakers magnifying their egos; lovely-looking foreign women in the visitors' galleries in breat…
South Asia in Graphic Narratives
Honourable Resolutions”
Khushwant Singh's 1956 novel Train to Pakistan features crucial moment in which Hukum Ghand, the magistrate sent to maintain law and order in the village of Mano Majra in 1947, reflects critically on the dominant image that emblematized Indian independence internationally: What were the people in Delhi doing? Making fine speeches in the assembly! Loud-speakers magnifying their egos; lovely-looking foreign women in the visitors' galleries in breat…
Provincializing America
Guest Editors' Column
Home and the nation
This article engages with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to globalization and migration, and argues for their rethinking through postcolonial literature. It contends that the representation of migrant women and refugees in Nadine Gordimer's and Amitav Ghosh's fiction shows that we need to re‐examine not only the dominant, popular ideologies of the nation as "home" and citizenship as "belonging" but also the relations between violence, c…
Visual culture and violence
The 1947 Partition of India has recently re-emerged as a thematic concern of many South Asian films about nationalism in popular and parallel cinema. These films invoke the 1947 Partition in both productive and troubling ways: they connect it to the contemplation of the role of religion in the contemporary nation-state, and of the impact of religious ethnicity, terrorism and gender on the experience of citizenship in both India and Pakistan. Rece…
South Asia in Graphic Narratives
Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)