Sreyashi Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sreyashi Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sreyashi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6514-541X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Airborne Hospitality
This essay conceptualizes the neologism “airborne hospitality” to characterize animal-focused cinematic representations and visualization processes that collectively reimagine air as a transspecies community-building medium. It brings Jacques Derrida’s theorizations on hospitality into dialogue with literary and cultural interpretations of air to analyze human-avian caregiving and other vertically oriented practices of hospitable intimacies in In…
Vernacular animalities
This essay foregrounds new vernacular aesthetics of multispecies ethics through close readings of two short stories – "Shokun" ("Vulture") and "Amrityu Ajibon" ("Till Death, Through Life") – by Bengali writer Hasan Azizul Haque (1939–2021). Postcolonial literary criticism has predominantly focused on Haque's incisive portrayal of the consequences of the Partition of India and Bangladesh Liberation War on affected minorities, but his depictions of…
From Anthroponormativity to Creaturely Ethics
Dominic O’Key, Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War against Animals. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. viii + 202 pp., 4 b/w illus. £85.00 (hb), £28.99 (pb
“Forced Renegades”
In May 2020, a pregnant elephant died from serious injuries, starvation, and respiratory failure while standing knee-deep in a river in the Palakkad district of the state of Kerala in India. The incident took place after she consumed a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers which exploded in her mouth. The elephant, posthumously named Soumya, had strayed into a village from the nearby Silent Valley National Park in search of food, and unknowingly co…
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“Forced Renegades”
In May 2020, a pregnant elephant died from serious injuries, starvation, and respiratory failure while standing knee-deep in a river in the Palakkad district of the state of Kerala in India. The incident took place after she consumed a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers which exploded in her mouth. The elephant, posthumously named Soumya, had strayed into a village from the nearby Silent Valley National Park in search of food, and unknowingly co…
From Anthroponormativity to Creaturely Ethics
Dominic O’Key, Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War against Animals. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. viii + 202 pp., 4 b/w illus. £85.00 (hb), £28.99 (pb
Vernacular animalities
This essay foregrounds new vernacular aesthetics of multispecies ethics through close readings of two short stories – "Shokun" ("Vulture") and "Amrityu Ajibon" ("Till Death, Through Life") – by Bengali writer Hasan Azizul Haque (1939–2021). Postcolonial literary criticism has predominantly focused on Haque's incisive portrayal of the consequences of the Partition of India and Bangladesh Liberation War on affected minorities, but his depictions of…
Airborne Hospitality
This essay conceptualizes the neologism “airborne hospitality” to characterize animal-focused cinematic representations and visualization processes that collectively reimagine air as a transspecies community-building medium. It brings Jacques Derrida’s theorizations on hospitality into dialogue with literary and cultural interpretations of air to analyze human-avian caregiving and other vertically oriented practices of hospitable intimacies in In…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Constitution (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Cruelty (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work)