P Saha
Biographic Data
| ID | 38374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Saha |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Saha |
| SIGNATURE | SAHA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9463-464X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Echoes of the Inner Self
This paper explores the psychological fiction of the Adi, Angami, Ao, and Khasi tribes of Northeast India, analysing how tribal narratives depict mental and emotional life through culturally rooted frameworks. Unlike Western psychological fiction, which emphasizes individual introspection and clinical models, these tribal literatures embed the psyche within myth, ecology, ritual, and ancestral memory. The Adi narratives reflect a psycho-spiritual…
(After)Word
Research Article| May 01 2023 (After)Word Poulomi Saha Poulomi Saha POULOMI SAHA is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research and teaching interests span postcolonial studies, ethnic American literature, feminist and queer theory, critical theory, and psychoanalytic critique. Her first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabricat…
Professor Amy Kaplan
The American studies community was left reeling after learning of Amy Kaplan’s passing a year ago in the summer of 2020.The essays in this roundtable testify not only to Kaplan’s enormous contributions to American studies scholarship, but also to her inspirational mentorship and friendship to scholars and students across the world. We are grateful to each of our contributors, Rafael Walker, Alex Lubin, Mark Storey, and Poulomi Saha, for sharing t…
Returning the Symptom to Critique
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On Not Being Born
“On Not Being Born: Contraceptive Experiments in Bangladesh in the Era of Demopower” traces the development of two abortion technologies created by lay abortionist Harvey Karman, their travel from America before Roe v. Wade to Bangladesh in the infancy of its postcolonial statehood, and their remarkable afterlives. One is celebrated as a technique of the contemporary global development apparatus, and the other is reviled as a debunked medical atr…
Terrorist Still-Life
This essay argues that as Santosh Sivan’s 1998 film Theeviravaathi (The Terrorist) is haunted by the spectre of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, it materially reproduces the still image of his assassin’s body, which circulated in the Indian media, through the use of extended close-ups of the near-motionless female main character, the eponymous terrorist. Evoking the use of penal and ethnological photography by British colonial authorities in India, …
Conspiracy Rises Again
This essay takes up conspiracy as a discursive, political, and philosophical concept. By tracing the ideological and textual kinship between anticolonialism in India and Ireland and radicalism in the United States, it illuminates transcolonial circuits of a curiously shared revolutionary project. Rather than simply offer a historical account of those interconnections, it theorizes a practice of reading revolutionary violence as perpetual, repetit…
Women on Fire
The years between 1930 and 1933 saw a dramatic rise in anticolonial violence in Bengal. Young women who participated in this violence, caught between competing masculinist discourses of colonial authorities and nationalist communities that deemed them either dupes or martyrs, recognized an incongruity between their revolutionary insurgency and the conditions of possibility for its memorialization. This essay follows Pritilata Waddedar, the first …
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Women on Fire
The years between 1930 and 1933 saw a dramatic rise in anticolonial violence in Bengal. Young women who participated in this violence, caught between competing masculinist discourses of colonial authorities and nationalist communities that deemed them either dupes or martyrs, recognized an incongruity between their revolutionary insurgency and the conditions of possibility for its memorialization. This essay follows Pritilata Waddedar, the first …
Terrorist Still-Life
This essay argues that as Santosh Sivan’s 1998 film Theeviravaathi (The Terrorist) is haunted by the spectre of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, it materially reproduces the still image of his assassin’s body, which circulated in the Indian media, through the use of extended close-ups of the near-motionless female main character, the eponymous terrorist. Evoking the use of penal and ethnological photography by British colonial authorities in India, …
Conspiracy Rises Again
This essay takes up conspiracy as a discursive, political, and philosophical concept. By tracing the ideological and textual kinship between anticolonialism in India and Ireland and radicalism in the United States, it illuminates transcolonial circuits of a curiously shared revolutionary project. Rather than simply offer a historical account of those interconnections, it theorizes a practice of reading revolutionary violence as perpetual, repetit…
Professor Amy Kaplan
The American studies community was left reeling after learning of Amy Kaplan’s passing a year ago in the summer of 2020.The essays in this roundtable testify not only to Kaplan’s enormous contributions to American studies scholarship, but also to her inspirational mentorship and friendship to scholars and students across the world. We are grateful to each of our contributors, Rafael Walker, Alex Lubin, Mark Storey, and Poulomi Saha, for sharing t…
Returning the Symptom to Critique
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
On Not Being Born
“On Not Being Born: Contraceptive Experiments in Bangladesh in the Era of Demopower” traces the development of two abortion technologies created by lay abortionist Harvey Karman, their travel from America before Roe v. Wade to Bangladesh in the infancy of its postcolonial statehood, and their remarkable afterlives. One is celebrated as a technique of the contemporary global development apparatus, and the other is reviled as a debunked medical atr…
(After)Word
Research Article| May 01 2023 (After)Word Poulomi Saha Poulomi Saha POULOMI SAHA is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research and teaching interests span postcolonial studies, ethnic American literature, feminist and queer theory, critical theory, and psychoanalytic critique. Her first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabricat…
Echoes of the Inner Self
This paper explores the psychological fiction of the Adi, Angami, Ao, and Khasi tribes of Northeast India, analysing how tribal narratives depict mental and emotional life through culturally rooted frameworks. Unlike Western psychological fiction, which emphasizes individual introspection and clinical models, these tribal literatures embed the psyche within myth, ecology, ritual, and ancestral memory. The Adi narratives reflect a psycho-spiritual…
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