Srilata Ravi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Srilata Ravi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Srilata |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravi |
| SIGNATURE | RAVI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ananda Devi’s Laughing Goddesses and the Limitless Possibilities of Transnational Fiction
This chapter examines acclaimed francophone Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi’s novel, Le rire des déesses (2021), which sets out to expose religious bigotry and the oppression of women in Hindu society. The Indo-Mauritian writer’s critique of goddess worship and the patriarchal structure of Hindu society in Le rire des déesses expands on her own sharp criticism of island Hinduism in her other novels set in her native Mauritius, where diasporic link…
Access to healthcare services and confidence in healthcare professionals’ management of malaria: The views of Francophone sub-Saharan African Immigrants living in western Canada
This study provides an important insight into FISSA experience with and perception of the Alberta's healthcare system
Art as rediscovery: The relationship between art and heritage in the life and work of André Malraux (1920s–1930s)
Arts and heritage are the two categories essential to the fabric of cultural policies and of public discourses on culture. This paper explores the duality of art and heritage in the work and life of André Malraux in the 1920s and 1930s as a window into one of many distinctive conceptions of culture in France. Art, artists, and art amateurs, are, in Malraux’s conception, the only forces that can challenge the fugacity of time and bring art to a ne…
Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link lin…
Ethnicité, sexualité et mythologie. Ananda Devi et l’indo-mauricianité
L’Indo-Mauricien est une figure majeure des littératures francophones de l’île Maurice. D’abord représenté, dans les romans coloniaux, comme l’« autre orientalisé », il se transforme dans des récits plus nationalistes en héros du coolie romance. Ces derniers, plus valorisants, excluent cependant souvent non seulement la communauté créole de l’île, mais également la femme indo-mauricienne. Cette exclusion ethnique et sexuelle, qui parcourt les tex…
Home and the 'failed' city in postcolonial narratives of 'dark return
Generally speaking, the phenomenon of dark tourism or grief tourism refers to people travelling to scenes of atrocity or disaster. It covers a diverse range of sites and experiences and includes lo
Musique populaire, métissage et identités culturelles: Vers les recherches comparées
Selon Piroth (2008), les chansons populaires en français ont contribué à renforcer une identité québécoise distincte vis-à-vis de la culture majoritaire des Anglo-Canadiens. D’après lui, bien que le style pop américain reste le genre musical le plus écouté au Québec, la présence de la musique populaire francophone dans les médias et dans les performances publiques atteste toujours de son importance dans le patrimoine culturel commun aux Québécois…
Banaras in the Indian Ocean: Circulating, Connecting and Creolizing Island Stories
What links Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s 1788 novel about Isle de France, Paul et Virginie, with V.S. Naipaul’s 1972 piece, An overcrowded Barracoon? What is common to Joseph Conrad’s 1910 novella, A Smile of Fortune, and tourist brochures of La Grande Baie? What brings together the story of the ruins of Babylon and the Ghats of the Ganges? Actually, these seemingly disjointed narratives make up a vast library of inter-connecting Indian Ocean islan…
Engaging the Postcolonial: Terrorism, Tourism, and Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Twenty-First Century
Engaging the Postcolonial: Terrorism, Tourism, and Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Twenty-First Century. An article from journal International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Americanity, Continentalism and Globalisation), on Érudit
Between words and images: A comparative study of Barlen Pyamootoo's Bnars and its film adaptation
This study investigates the relation between literature in French and emerging cinema in Mauritius. It will focus specifically on a comparative analysis between Pyamootoo's novel Bnars (1999) and its film adaptation (2005). It will first examine the themes of absence and immobility central to the novel and show how the film transposes these thematic considerations on to the big screen. Secondly, it will examine the imagined tale of the voyage to …
Border Zones in Colonial Spaces: Imagining Pondicherry, Mauritius and Lucknow
In the early eighteenth century India was still a land of porous frontiers and tremendous opportunities, as it was when the Europeans first discovered it in the sixteenth century. Notwithstanding France's defeat in India after the fall of Pondicherry in 1793, which left the British East India Company free to consolidate and extend its influence in India, there still remained ‘border zones’ in India which offered the French and other Europeans cha…
The failure of colonial ‘distancing’: Changing representations of the 2005–06 chikungunya epidemic in Réunion, France
In 2005–06, the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, an overseas department of France, experienced a massive epidemic of the mosquito‐borne viral infection chikungunya. Public health authorities in metropolitan France were arguably slow to react, and we explore their representations and management of the epidemic in the context of tropicality and colonial discourse. We analyse official reports on the epidemic from the bulletins of the Institut de Veil…
Tamil identity and diasporic desire in a Kollywoood comedy: Nala Damayanti (2003)
The aim of this paper is to explore how ethnic and linguistic identities intersect with national identity in Indian cinema through a ‘diasporic’ reading of the film Nala Damayanti (2003) produced by Kamal Hassan. Tamil cinema or ‘Kollywood’ may share common genre conventions with Bollywood (duration, stylized exaggerations of speech and plot, song and dance sequences). However, unlike Bollywood, which is most often neither ethnicized nor geograph…
Modernity, Imperialism and the Pleasures of Travel: The Continental Hotel in Saigon
An essay is presented on tourism in Indochina. It examines how the Continental Hotel in Saigon established a site where discourses of colonialism, leisure and modernity that supported Euporean modernity and identity in a foreign land. This hotel continues to represent Western imperialism as it supports ethnocentric attitudes towards the local people
Re-thinking Creole identities in eighteenth-century Isle de France
MétisseStories and the Ambivalent Desire for Cultural Belonging
The discourse of Empire imprisoned the métis (mixed-race male) and the métisse (mixed-race female) as inferior objects in the essentialised category of race. Mixed race individuals problematised the relation between the Self and the Other in colonised societies and their stories became inextricably intertwined with colonial histories of domination and exclusion. In the postcolonial era when the metis/métisse as object of gaze emerges as a liberat…
Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
Revisiting Vietnam, locating home in Kim Lefevre's Retour à la saison des pluies
The present study focuses on Kim Lefevre's sequel to Métisse Blanche (1989), Retour à la saison des pluies (1990). The text is centred around a diasporic migrant's 'travel project' to return to Vietnam. The sense of place as dwelling becomes an overpowering element in a narrative that renews the theme of continual geographical dislocations characterizing Kim Lefevre's childhood and adolescence in Vietnam. This paper explores the migrant writer's …
Women, Family and Empire-building: Régis Wargnier's Indochine
Arguably, Regis Wargnier's Indochine (1992) provides a glorified vision of French women in the colonies through the paradigmatic figure of Eliane as Empire-builder. But, even if at one level the overall opulence and elegance of the production, as epitomized by Catherine Deneuve, contribute to the creation of a ‘libidinal economy, the perpetuation of preconceived ideas and the generation of colonial blues’ (Norindr 1996: 131–54) it is important to…
Figuring the East
Exotic reminiscences: The feminine Other in French fiction on South East Asia
Modernity, Imperialism and the Pleasures of Travel: The Continental Hotel in Saigon
An essay is presented on tourism in Indochina. It examines how the Continental Hotel in Saigon established a site where discourses of colonialism, leisure and modernity that supported Euporean modernity and identity in a foreign land. This hotel continues to represent Western imperialism as it supports ethnocentric attitudes towards the local people
Tamil identity and diasporic desire in a Kollywoood comedy: Nala Damayanti (2003)
The aim of this paper is to explore how ethnic and linguistic identities intersect with national identity in Indian cinema through a ‘diasporic’ reading of the film Nala Damayanti (2003) produced by Kamal Hassan. Tamil cinema or ‘Kollywood’ may share common genre conventions with Bollywood (duration, stylized exaggerations of speech and plot, song and dance sequences). However, unlike Bollywood, which is most often neither ethnicized nor geograph…
Home and the 'failed' city in postcolonial narratives of 'dark return
Generally speaking, the phenomenon of dark tourism or grief tourism refers to people travelling to scenes of atrocity or disaster. It covers a diverse range of sites and experiences and includes lo
Exotic reminiscences: The feminine Other in French fiction on South East Asia
Exotic reminiscences: The feminine Other in French fiction on South East Asia
Women, Family and Empire-building: Régis Wargnier's Indochine
Arguably, Regis Wargnier's Indochine (1992) provides a glorified vision of French women in the colonies through the paradigmatic figure of Eliane as Empire-builder. But, even if at one level the overall opulence and elegance of the production, as epitomized by Catherine Deneuve, contribute to the creation of a ‘libidinal economy, the perpetuation of preconceived ideas and the generation of colonial blues’ (Norindr 1996: 131–54) it is important to…
Figuring the East
Revisiting Vietnam, locating home in Kim Lefevre's Retour à la saison des pluies
The present study focuses on Kim Lefevre's sequel to Métisse Blanche (1989), Retour à la saison des pluies (1990). The text is centred around a diasporic migrant's 'travel project' to return to Vietnam. The sense of place as dwelling becomes an overpowering element in a narrative that renews the theme of continual geographical dislocations characterizing Kim Lefevre's childhood and adolescence in Vietnam. This paper explores the migrant writer's …
Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
Re-thinking Creole identities in eighteenth-century Isle de France
MétisseStories and the Ambivalent Desire for Cultural Belonging
The discourse of Empire imprisoned the métis (mixed-race male) and the métisse (mixed-race female) as inferior objects in the essentialised category of race. Mixed race individuals problematised the relation between the Self and the Other in colonised societies and their stories became inextricably intertwined with colonial histories of domination and exclusion. In the postcolonial era when the metis/métisse as object of gaze emerges as a liberat…
The failure of colonial ‘distancing’: Changing representations of the 2005–06 chikungunya epidemic in Réunion, France
In 2005–06, the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, an overseas department of France, experienced a massive epidemic of the mosquito‐borne viral infection chikungunya. Public health authorities in metropolitan France were arguably slow to react, and we explore their representations and management of the epidemic in the context of tropicality and colonial discourse. We analyse official reports on the epidemic from the bulletins of the Institut de Veil…
Tamil identity and diasporic desire in a Kollywoood comedy: Nala Damayanti (2003)
The aim of this paper is to explore how ethnic and linguistic identities intersect with national identity in Indian cinema through a ‘diasporic’ reading of the film Nala Damayanti (2003) produced by Kamal Hassan. Tamil cinema or ‘Kollywood’ may share common genre conventions with Bollywood (duration, stylized exaggerations of speech and plot, song and dance sequences). However, unlike Bollywood, which is most often neither ethnicized nor geograph…
Modernity, Imperialism and the Pleasures of Travel: The Continental Hotel in Saigon
An essay is presented on tourism in Indochina. It examines how the Continental Hotel in Saigon established a site where discourses of colonialism, leisure and modernity that supported Euporean modernity and identity in a foreign land. This hotel continues to represent Western imperialism as it supports ethnocentric attitudes towards the local people
Border Zones in Colonial Spaces: Imagining Pondicherry, Mauritius and Lucknow
In the early eighteenth century India was still a land of porous frontiers and tremendous opportunities, as it was when the Europeans first discovered it in the sixteenth century. Notwithstanding France's defeat in India after the fall of Pondicherry in 1793, which left the British East India Company free to consolidate and extend its influence in India, there still remained ‘border zones’ in India which offered the French and other Europeans cha…
Engaging the Postcolonial: Terrorism, Tourism, and Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Twenty-First Century
Engaging the Postcolonial: Terrorism, Tourism, and Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Twenty-First Century. An article from journal International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Americanity, Continentalism and Globalisation), on Érudit
Between words and images: A comparative study of Barlen Pyamootoo's Bnars and its film adaptation
This study investigates the relation between literature in French and emerging cinema in Mauritius. It will focus specifically on a comparative analysis between Pyamootoo's novel Bnars (1999) and its film adaptation (2005). It will first examine the themes of absence and immobility central to the novel and show how the film transposes these thematic considerations on to the big screen. Secondly, it will examine the imagined tale of the voyage to …
Musique populaire, métissage et identités culturelles: Vers les recherches comparées
Selon Piroth (2008), les chansons populaires en français ont contribué à renforcer une identité québécoise distincte vis-à-vis de la culture majoritaire des Anglo-Canadiens. D’après lui, bien que le style pop américain reste le genre musical le plus écouté au Québec, la présence de la musique populaire francophone dans les médias et dans les performances publiques atteste toujours de son importance dans le patrimoine culturel commun aux Québécois…
Banaras in the Indian Ocean: Circulating, Connecting and Creolizing Island Stories
What links Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s 1788 novel about Isle de France, Paul et Virginie, with V.S. Naipaul’s 1972 piece, An overcrowded Barracoon? What is common to Joseph Conrad’s 1910 novella, A Smile of Fortune, and tourist brochures of La Grande Baie? What brings together the story of the ruins of Babylon and the Ghats of the Ganges? Actually, these seemingly disjointed narratives make up a vast library of inter-connecting Indian Ocean islan…
Ethnicité, sexualité et mythologie. Ananda Devi et l’indo-mauricianité
L’Indo-Mauricien est une figure majeure des littératures francophones de l’île Maurice. D’abord représenté, dans les romans coloniaux, comme l’« autre orientalisé », il se transforme dans des récits plus nationalistes en héros du coolie romance. Ces derniers, plus valorisants, excluent cependant souvent non seulement la communauté créole de l’île, mais également la femme indo-mauricienne. Cette exclusion ethnique et sexuelle, qui parcourt les tex…
Home and the 'failed' city in postcolonial narratives of 'dark return
Generally speaking, the phenomenon of dark tourism or grief tourism refers to people travelling to scenes of atrocity or disaster. It covers a diverse range of sites and experiences and includes lo
Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link lin…
Art as rediscovery: The relationship between art and heritage in the life and work of André Malraux (1920s–1930s)
Arts and heritage are the two categories essential to the fabric of cultural policies and of public discourses on culture. This paper explores the duality of art and heritage in the work and life of André Malraux in the 1920s and 1930s as a window into one of many distinctive conceptions of culture in France. Art, artists, and art amateurs, are, in Malraux’s conception, the only forces that can challenge the fugacity of time and bring art to a ne…
Ananda Devi’s Laughing Goddesses and the Limitless Possibilities of Transnational Fiction
This chapter examines acclaimed francophone Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi’s novel, Le rire des déesses (2021), which sets out to expose religious bigotry and the oppression of women in Hindu society. The Indo-Mauritian writer’s critique of goddess worship and the patriarchal structure of Hindu society in Le rire des déesses expands on her own sharp criticism of island Hinduism in her other novels set in her native Mauritius, where diasporic link…
Access to healthcare services and confidence in healthcare professionals’ management of malaria: The views of Francophone sub-Saharan African Immigrants living in western Canada
This study provides an important insight into FISSA experience with and perception of the Alberta's healthcare system
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