Nicole Thiara
Biographic Data
| ID | 79243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Thiara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Thiara |
| SIGNATURE | THIARA N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interview with director Jayan K. Cherian
In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). …
The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing the mode of the colonial carnivalesque. Their representations of the inversion of caste hierarchies often employ grotesque images involving excrement. This novelistic form of the carnivalesque mani…
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: strategizing belonging." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(6), pp. 750–751
The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing the mode of the colonial carnivalesque. Their representations of the inversion of caste hierarchies often employ grotesque images involving excrement. This novelistic form of the carnivalesque mani…
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: strategizing belonging." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(6), pp. 750–751
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging
Magical realism and cosmopolitanism: strategizing belonging." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(6), pp. 750–751
The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing the mode of the colonial carnivalesque. Their representations of the inversion of caste hierarchies often employ grotesque images involving excrement. This novelistic form of the carnivalesque mani…
Interview with director Jayan K. Cherian
In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). …
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)