Brinda Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 643915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brinda Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transcultural Francophone Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jahaji-bahin feminism: A de-colonial Indo-Caribbean consciousness
This essay examines the trope of jahaji-bahin consciousness through a de-colonial feminist lens to highlight the ways in which Indo-Caribbean women claim a sense of identity and belonging in the Caribbean while resisting colonial and patriarchal stereotypes, social marginality, and gender anomie in circumscribed spaces. What is the scope of jahaji-bahin consciousness as a form of de-colonial feminist thought? How does it engender localised forms …
Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence
This is a response to Abdelkader Cheref’s review of my book Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence in this journal (13:3 [November 2017]: 438–41).Cheref was gratuitously patronizing, sloppy, and dismissive, as well as misinformed, in his review. I respond to only some of his egregious mistakes. Accusing me of essentialism for identifying the women writers whose works I analyze as Arab, Cheref offers genetic and racialized essen…
Postscript on Laila Soliman's Revolutionary Theatre
Laila Soliman's prophetic words in Lessons in Revolting, “ this revolution is far from over” (2011) have come to fruition. The ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government by a military takeover on 3 July 2013 (after only one year in power) has added another chapter to the uprising's trajectory. While the revolution inspired dramatic protest and equally spectacular creative expression in the form of ex…
Staging Tahrir: Laila Soliman’s Revolutionary Theatre
If one day, a people desire to live, Then fate will answer their call And their night will then begin to fade, And their chains break and fall. “Will to Live” Abī al-Qāsim al-Shābī One of the most inspiring aspects of the Egyptian revolution was the outpouring of creative expression that accompanied the uprising’s social and political movements in the form of protest songs, poetry, slogans, chants, graffiti and installation art, street theatre, c…
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing uses a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora and gender in the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloup
Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
Research Article| October 01 2006 Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge Brinda Mehta Brinda Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brinda Mehta; Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge. …
Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi'sBaghdad Diaries
The current state of geopolitical anomie unleashed by the forces of globalization and Western capitalism has created a new world disorder in which war is the preferred agenda of a masculinist elite to advance the interest of a petrol-fiieled U.S. and European hegemony. As the war in Iraq illustrates, the male culture of violence formulates the language of international diplomacy that disfavors negotiation and open-ended dialogue by thwarting crea…
Geographies of Space: Spatial Impositions, Circularity, and Memory in Malika Mokeddem'sLes hommes qui marchentandLe si cle des sauterelles
Re-creating Ayida-wèdo: Feminizing the Serpent in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free. —Rumi
Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
Research Article| October 01 2006 Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge Brinda Mehta Brinda Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brinda Mehta; Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge. …
Re-creating Ayida-wèdo: Feminizing the Serpent in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free. —Rumi
Re-creating Ayida-wèdo: Feminizing the Serpent in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free. —Rumi
Geographies of Space: Spatial Impositions, Circularity, and Memory in Malika Mokeddem'sLes hommes qui marchentandLe si cle des sauterelles
Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
Research Article| October 01 2006 Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge Brinda Mehta Brinda Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brinda Mehta; Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge. …
Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi'sBaghdad Diaries
The current state of geopolitical anomie unleashed by the forces of globalization and Western capitalism has created a new world disorder in which war is the preferred agenda of a masculinist elite to advance the interest of a petrol-fiieled U.S. and European hegemony. As the war in Iraq illustrates, the male culture of violence formulates the language of international diplomacy that disfavors negotiation and open-ended dialogue by thwarting crea…
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing uses a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora and gender in the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloup
Postscript on Laila Soliman's Revolutionary Theatre
Laila Soliman's prophetic words in Lessons in Revolting, “ this revolution is far from over” (2011) have come to fruition. The ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government by a military takeover on 3 July 2013 (after only one year in power) has added another chapter to the uprising's trajectory. While the revolution inspired dramatic protest and equally spectacular creative expression in the form of ex…
Staging Tahrir: Laila Soliman’s Revolutionary Theatre
If one day, a people desire to live, Then fate will answer their call And their night will then begin to fade, And their chains break and fall. “Will to Live” Abī al-Qāsim al-Shābī One of the most inspiring aspects of the Egyptian revolution was the outpouring of creative expression that accompanied the uprising’s social and political movements in the form of protest songs, poetry, slogans, chants, graffiti and installation art, street theatre, c…
Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence
This is a response to Abdelkader Cheref’s review of my book Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence in this journal (13:3 [November 2017]: 438–41).Cheref was gratuitously patronizing, sloppy, and dismissive, as well as misinformed, in his review. I respond to only some of his egregious mistakes. Accusing me of essentialism for identifying the women writers whose works I analyze as Arab, Cheref offers genetic and racialized essen…
Jahaji-bahin feminism: A de-colonial Indo-Caribbean consciousness
This essay examines the trope of jahaji-bahin consciousness through a de-colonial feminist lens to highlight the ways in which Indo-Caribbean women claim a sense of identity and belonging in the Caribbean while resisting colonial and patriarchal stereotypes, social marginality, and gender anomie in circumscribed spaces. What is the scope of jahaji-bahin consciousness as a form of de-colonial feminist thought? How does it engender localised forms …
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works)