Meghan Gorman-Darif
Biographic Data
| ID | 642462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan Gorman-Darif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorman-Darif |
| SIGNATURE | GORMAN-DARIF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1187-5411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time
In Search of the Transformative Imaginary
Though revolutionary violence and the violence of the dispossessed gained a liberatory valence in its theorization during the anticolonial era by a wide range of writers, including Frantz Fanon, the liberatory aspects of such violence have diminished after decolonization. In contradistinction to the anticolonial view of the violence of the dispossessed, dominant discourse, as Priyamvada Gopal asserts, “assumes, rather than argues for, its fundame…
Post-Magic
In Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (2010. New Jersey: Routledge), Mallarika Sinha Roy takes her title from an interview with a former Naxalite woman in which the interviewee declares, “[t]hose were the best days of my life ... in those years I lived as a human being ... seta chillo ekta ashchorjyo somoy (Those were magic moments)” (x). The import of this metaphor, Roy explains, is its ability to “convey [the] dual…
A Dialectics of Violence
Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others (2014) tackles the Naxalite Movement in West Bengal between 1967 and 1971. The novel’s final pages, however, spring forward to 2012, narrating an act of non-state terror against the civilian population, thereby connecting the earlier Movement with contemporary Maoist violence, and marking a significant turn in Naxalite narratives. This paper engages with the political implications of the text’s representations…
A Dialectics of Violence
Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others (2014) tackles the Naxalite Movement in West Bengal between 1967 and 1971. The novel’s final pages, however, spring forward to 2012, narrating an act of non-state terror against the civilian population, thereby connecting the earlier Movement with contemporary Maoist violence, and marking a significant turn in Naxalite narratives. This paper engages with the political implications of the text’s representations…
Post-Magic
In Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (2010. New Jersey: Routledge), Mallarika Sinha Roy takes her title from an interview with a former Naxalite woman in which the interviewee declares, “[t]hose were the best days of my life ... in those years I lived as a human being ... seta chillo ekta ashchorjyo somoy (Those were magic moments)” (x). The import of this metaphor, Roy explains, is its ability to “convey [the] dual…
A Dialectics of Violence
Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others (2014) tackles the Naxalite Movement in West Bengal between 1967 and 1971. The novel’s final pages, however, spring forward to 2012, narrating an act of non-state terror against the civilian population, thereby connecting the earlier Movement with contemporary Maoist violence, and marking a significant turn in Naxalite narratives. This paper engages with the political implications of the text’s representations…
In Search of the Transformative Imaginary
Though revolutionary violence and the violence of the dispossessed gained a liberatory valence in its theorization during the anticolonial era by a wide range of writers, including Frantz Fanon, the liberatory aspects of such violence have diminished after decolonization. In contradistinction to the anticolonial view of the violence of the dispossessed, dominant discourse, as Priyamvada Gopal asserts, “assumes, rather than argues for, its fundame…
Post-Magic
In Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (2010. New Jersey: Routledge), Mallarika Sinha Roy takes her title from an interview with a former Naxalite woman in which the interviewee declares, “[t]hose were the best days of my life ... in those years I lived as a human being ... seta chillo ekta ashchorjyo somoy (Those were magic moments)” (x). The import of this metaphor, Roy explains, is its ability to “convey [the] dual…
Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time
Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Algorithm (1 work) · Art (1 work)