Samir Dayal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samir Dayal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samir |
| FAMILY NAME | Dayal |
| SIGNATURE | DAYAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bentley University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7212-9472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against Immunity
This essay focuses on literary representations of the dynamic between the normative or mainstream self and the other, the foreigner or outsider who is perceived as a threat, in works by North American writers who are arguably “ethnic” and “diasporic”: Gary Shteyngart's novel Our Country Friends and Amitava Kumar's autofiction titled A Time Outside This Time: A Novel. These literary texts respond to the perceived threat especially in times of publ…
The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote
This article explores cinematic representations of American military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, examining documentary and fiction films from American, Iraqi, and Afghan perspectives. The article argues that these films often fail to communicate meaningfully with domestic and international audiences effectively, instead remaining 'asymptotic' or 'uroboric' in their rhetorical and communicative impact. I highlight the ethical challenge …
The Bentley Global Experience Initiative
Since 2009, Bentley University has engaged in assessment of intercultural effectiveness in undergraduate students. The instrument used was the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, which measures six dimensions using a self-report instrument. The longitudinal data analysis showing results in correlation and causation indicated that while international education experiences have a significant positive effective on Global Mindset, they do not indicate…
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “race” and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essay…
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social pro…
Repositioning India
Research Article| February 01 2007 Repositioning India: Tagore's Passionate Politics of Love Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (1): 165–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Inhuman Love
Inhuman Love: Jane Campion’s The Piano Samir Dayal Introduction: What Does the Woman Want? The release of Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) was almost an epochal event. It arrived to mark the zenith of a phase of extraordinary creativity in Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, The Lighthorsemen, Breaker Morant, and Gallipoli. In the following decade, close on the heels of Strictly …
Managing Ecstasy
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. Angelo N. Ancheta. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 224 pages. $47.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Get access Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. Angelo N. Ancheta. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 224 pages. $47.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Bentley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, V…
The Liminalities of Nation and Gender
Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Get access Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Bentley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 21, Is…
Postcolonialism's Possibilities
T he question of postcolonialism's possibilities is a grammatical as well as a practical-political-one. How is postcolonialism discursively articulated, and what can it promise as its directions or indirections? Is postcoloniality condemned to the condition of pessimism expressed by Anthony Appiah (Is the Postin Postmodern the Postin Postcolonial? 353)? Is it capable of productive transgressions, (sub)versions of the reigning cultural discourses …
Repositioning India
Research Article| February 01 2007 Repositioning India: Tagore's Passionate Politics of Love Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (1): 165–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Postcolonialism's Possibilities
T he question of postcolonialism's possibilities is a grammatical as well as a practical-political-one. How is postcolonialism discursively articulated, and what can it promise as its directions or indirections? Is postcoloniality condemned to the condition of pessimism expressed by Anthony Appiah (Is the Postin Postmodern the Postin Postcolonial? 353)? Is it capable of productive transgressions, (sub)versions of the reigning cultural discourses …
Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Get access Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Bentley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 21, Is…
Postcolonialism's Possibilities
T he question of postcolonialism's possibilities is a grammatical as well as a practical-political-one. How is postcolonialism discursively articulated, and what can it promise as its directions or indirections? Is postcoloniality condemned to the condition of pessimism expressed by Anthony Appiah (Is the Postin Postmodern the Postin Postcolonial? 353)? Is it capable of productive transgressions, (sub)versions of the reigning cultural discourses …
The Liminalities of Nation and Gender
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. Angelo N. Ancheta. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 224 pages. $47.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Get access Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. Angelo N. Ancheta. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 224 pages. $47.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Bentley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, V…
Managing Ecstasy
Inhuman Love
Inhuman Love: Jane Campion’s The Piano Samir Dayal Introduction: What Does the Woman Want? The release of Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) was almost an epochal event. It arrived to mark the zenith of a phase of extraordinary creativity in Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, The Lighthorsemen, Breaker Morant, and Gallipoli. In the following decade, close on the heels of Strictly …
Repositioning India
Research Article| February 01 2007 Repositioning India: Tagore's Passionate Politics of Love Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (1): 165–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-028 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social pro…
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “race” and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essay…
The Bentley Global Experience Initiative
Since 2009, Bentley University has engaged in assessment of intercultural effectiveness in undergraduate students. The instrument used was the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, which measures six dimensions using a self-report instrument. The longitudinal data analysis showing results in correlation and causation indicated that while international education experiences have a significant positive effective on Global Mindset, they do not indicate…
The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote
This article explores cinematic representations of American military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, examining documentary and fiction films from American, Iraqi, and Afghan perspectives. The article argues that these films often fail to communicate meaningfully with domestic and international audiences effectively, instead remaining 'asymptotic' or 'uroboric' in their rhetorical and communicative impact. I highlight the ethical challenge …
Against Immunity
This essay focuses on literary representations of the dynamic between the normative or mainstream self and the other, the foreigner or outsider who is perceived as a threat, in works by North American writers who are arguably “ethnic” and “diasporic”: Gary Shteyngart's novel Our Country Friends and Amitava Kumar's autofiction titled A Time Outside This Time: A Novel. These literary texts respond to the perceived threat especially in times of publ…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works)