Joe Varghese Yeldho
Biographic Data
| ID | 6095508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Varghese Yeldho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe Varghese |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeldho |
| SIGNATURE | YELDHO J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Science Education and Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Bodies as Sites of Invention in N.K. Jemisin’s B roken E arth Trilogy
The essay argues that Frantz Fanon’s and Hortense Spillers’s conception of a disintegrating black body as the site of transformation serves as the theoretical backdrop for studying N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy (2015-17). It foregrounds the degenerating body of the character Essun by discussing bodies engaged in the act of petrification, the conversion of bodies into stones, opening a portal for Fanon’s dépouillement or the shedding of …
Arivu’s Dalit Rap
The emergent pan-Indian phenomenon of Dalit rap is championed by Arivu and other Dalit rappers, such as Ginni Mahi, Sumeet Samos, Duleshwar Tandi and Vedan. They draw from the wellspring of Dalit musical traditions. These musicians are successors to pioneers who utilized music and poetry in the anti-caste struggle such as Jyotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Poykayil Appachan, Bhimrao Kardak, Gaddar and Vilas Ghogre. Arivu’s music utilizes the cultu…
Sounding Harlem
The essay focuses on the thematic coming into being of a place mapped through practices of listening. Sound, noise, and music are seen as part of the racially informed urban “everyday.” The reading depends on the isovist narration of The Street (1946) by Ann Petry, documenting Harlem during the 1940s. The text develops a narrative predicated on the use of aurality as a means of “dwelling upon” the site of a home; a place to live, but where the id…
A Cognitive Approach to the Trauma Narrative in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
This paper studies the trauma narrative of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy (2008), using a cognitive narratological framework. The authors, in this paper, describe the response the novel elicits from the reader. And the paper argues that multiple focalization, polychronic narration, and representation of inconsistent information enable Morrison to depict effectively the devastating effects of trauma-whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial-on indi…
Sounding Harlem
The essay focuses on the thematic coming into being of a place mapped through practices of listening. Sound, noise, and music are seen as part of the racially informed urban “everyday.” The reading depends on the isovist narration of The Street (1946) by Ann Petry, documenting Harlem during the 1940s. The text develops a narrative predicated on the use of aurality as a means of “dwelling upon” the site of a home; a place to live, but where the id…
A Cognitive Approach to the Trauma Narrative in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
This paper studies the trauma narrative of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy (2008), using a cognitive narratological framework. The authors, in this paper, describe the response the novel elicits from the reader. And the paper argues that multiple focalization, polychronic narration, and representation of inconsistent information enable Morrison to depict effectively the devastating effects of trauma-whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial-on indi…
Sounding Harlem
The essay focuses on the thematic coming into being of a place mapped through practices of listening. Sound, noise, and music are seen as part of the racially informed urban “everyday.” The reading depends on the isovist narration of The Street (1946) by Ann Petry, documenting Harlem during the 1940s. The text develops a narrative predicated on the use of aurality as a means of “dwelling upon” the site of a home; a place to live, but where the id…
Arivu’s Dalit Rap
The emergent pan-Indian phenomenon of Dalit rap is championed by Arivu and other Dalit rappers, such as Ginni Mahi, Sumeet Samos, Duleshwar Tandi and Vedan. They draw from the wellspring of Dalit musical traditions. These musicians are successors to pioneers who utilized music and poetry in the anti-caste struggle such as Jyotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Poykayil Appachan, Bhimrao Kardak, Gaddar and Vilas Ghogre. Arivu’s music utilizes the cultu…
Reading Bodies as Sites of Invention in N.K. Jemisin’s B roken E arth Trilogy
The essay argues that Frantz Fanon’s and Hortense Spillers’s conception of a disintegrating black body as the site of transformation serves as the theoretical backdrop for studying N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy (2015-17). It foregrounds the degenerating body of the character Essun by discussing bodies engaged in the act of petrification, the conversion of bodies into stones, opening a portal for Fanon’s dépouillement or the shedding of …
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Active listening (1 works)