Dayal
Biographic Data
| ID | 29553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dayal |
| FAMILY NAME | Dayal |
| SIGNATURE | DAYAL |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4655-0609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Usable Queer Past
Ramzi Fawaz's Queer Forms is a dazzling study of (primarily) late twentieth-century queer and feminist cultural production. In this book—his second, after The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016)—Fawaz develops a theory of "queer forms" and a creative/interpretative practice he terms queer formalism. He uses the former to describe an archive of gay liberationist and feminist cultural production from the 1…
Afterword: Anthropology and Science Fiction
Anthropology and science fiction are interlinked traditions of knowledge production and overlap in several different ways, not least by the fact that each of these practices was shaped by the colonial encounter. This afterword to the special section "The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional" addresses those linkages and suggests that anthropology as a discipline stands to gain from an engagemen…
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative: Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative:Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss Smaran Dayal Introduction As one of the two major African American science fiction writers of the late twentieth century, Octavia E. Butler is the writer-along with Samuel R. Delany-most often associated with "literary Afrofuturism" (Lavender III and Yaszek, 2020). Her most well-known work is Kindred (1979), a time-travel novel assigned in U.S. public schools, argu…
Meine Freiheit, Die Es So Noch Nicht Gibt: Alexander Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus
Alexander Weheliye’s book Habeas Viscus has garnered a great deal of attention in various critically oriented fields in the humanities, and justifiably so. It offers a refreshing take on multiple debates that have begun to stall – or appear stale – in critical theory, continental philosophy and postcolonial studies: the question of the human and humanism, the place of race and colonialism in contemporary critical theory, and the ontological statu…
Cityzenship: Rightful Presence and the Urban Commons
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
Cityzenship: Rightful Presence and the Urban Commons
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
Afterword: Anthropology and Science Fiction
Anthropology and science fiction are interlinked traditions of knowledge production and overlap in several different ways, not least by the fact that each of these practices was shaped by the colonial encounter. This afterword to the special section "The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional" addresses those linkages and suggests that anthropology as a discipline stands to gain from an engagemen…
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative: Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative:Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss Smaran Dayal Introduction As one of the two major African American science fiction writers of the late twentieth century, Octavia E. Butler is the writer-along with Samuel R. Delany-most often associated with "literary Afrofuturism" (Lavender III and Yaszek, 2020). Her most well-known work is Kindred (1979), a time-travel novel assigned in U.S. public schools, argu…
Cityzenship: Rightful Presence and the Urban Commons
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
Meine Freiheit, Die Es So Noch Nicht Gibt: Alexander Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus
Alexander Weheliye’s book Habeas Viscus has garnered a great deal of attention in various critically oriented fields in the humanities, and justifiably so. It offers a refreshing take on multiple debates that have begun to stall – or appear stale – in critical theory, continental philosophy and postcolonial studies: the question of the human and humanism, the place of race and colonialism in contemporary critical theory, and the ontological statu…
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative: Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss
Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative:Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss Smaran Dayal Introduction As one of the two major African American science fiction writers of the late twentieth century, Octavia E. Butler is the writer-along with Samuel R. Delany-most often associated with "literary Afrofuturism" (Lavender III and Yaszek, 2020). Her most well-known work is Kindred (1979), a time-travel novel assigned in U.S. public schools, argu…
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Afterword: Anthropology and Science Fiction
Anthropology and science fiction are interlinked traditions of knowledge production and overlap in several different ways, not least by the fact that each of these practices was shaped by the colonial encounter. This afterword to the special section "The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional" addresses those linkages and suggests that anthropology as a discipline stands to gain from an engagemen…
A Usable Queer Past
Ramzi Fawaz's Queer Forms is a dazzling study of (primarily) late twentieth-century queer and feminist cultural production. In this book—his second, after The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016)—Fawaz develops a theory of "queer forms" and a creative/interpretative practice he terms queer formalism. He uses the former to describe an archive of gay liberationist and feminist cultural production from the 1…
Sociology (5 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)