Lalita Pandit Hogan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5920416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lalita Pandit Hogan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lalita Pandit |
| FAMILY NAME | Hogan |
| SIGNATURE | HOGAN L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–La Crosse |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4162-1176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emotional Tears and Racial Stigma in Orson Welles's Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara
On the basis of two film adaptations of Shakespeare's Othello , Orson Welles's (1952/1955) Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara (2006), this article focuses on Othello's emotional tears, and how they mitigate, or not, the effects of racial stigmatization. The “Othello dilemma,” as I call it, refers to how Othello continues to be understood as an example of his race, rather than as an individual. How do the two films deal with this dilemma? This a…
Dhaniya's Anger in Premchand's Godan
This essay focuses on the anger of Dhaniya, the female protagonist of Premchand's Godan. Rather than approaching it as a specifically feminist anger, it sees it more broadly as the anger of the oppressed, which signals hope that the conditions of oppression will change. Premchand is influenced by Karl Marx, and uses narrative emotion to tell the (Indian) story of labor and capital; this essay puts Panksepp's neurocognitive theory of anger in conv…
Shakespearean Melancholy
Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy. J. F. Bernard. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. xii + 252 pp. $110. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Empathy, Liminality, and Narrative Imagination
This essay focuses on the motif of symbolic death in Rabindranath Tagore's‘The Living and the Dead’ to explore how social injustices occur when empathy for an individual (or a group) is blocked. Arnold Van Gennep's notion of pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal rites of passage that situate humans in efficacious, productive social relations, is used to contextualise the liminality motif in appropriate theoretical terms, while the introductory an…
Empathy, Liminality, and Narrative Imagination
This essay focuses on the motif of symbolic death in Rabindranath Tagore's‘The Living and the Dead’ to explore how social injustices occur when empathy for an individual (or a group) is blocked. Arnold Van Gennep's notion of pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal rites of passage that situate humans in efficacious, productive social relations, is used to contextualise the liminality motif in appropriate theoretical terms, while the introductory an…
Empathy, Liminality, and Narrative Imagination
This essay focuses on the motif of symbolic death in Rabindranath Tagore's‘The Living and the Dead’ to explore how social injustices occur when empathy for an individual (or a group) is blocked. Arnold Van Gennep's notion of pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal rites of passage that situate humans in efficacious, productive social relations, is used to contextualise the liminality motif in appropriate theoretical terms, while the introductory an…
Shakespearean Melancholy
Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy. J. F. Bernard. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. xii + 252 pp. $110. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Emotional Tears and Racial Stigma in Orson Welles's Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara
On the basis of two film adaptations of Shakespeare's Othello , Orson Welles's (1952/1955) Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara (2006), this article focuses on Othello's emotional tears, and how they mitigate, or not, the effects of racial stigmatization. The “Othello dilemma,” as I call it, refers to how Othello continues to be understood as an example of his race, rather than as an individual. How do the two films deal with this dilemma? This a…
Dhaniya's Anger in Premchand's Godan
This essay focuses on the anger of Dhaniya, the female protagonist of Premchand's Godan. Rather than approaching it as a specifically feminist anger, it sees it more broadly as the anger of the oppressed, which signals hope that the conditions of oppression will change. Premchand is influenced by Karl Marx, and uses narrative emotion to tell the (Indian) story of labor and capital; this essay puts Panksepp's neurocognitive theory of anger in conv…
Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)