Hari Stephen Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 86106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hari Stephen Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hari Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Memory, Mourning, and Miracles
This triple autoethnography evidences a process of associative memory, akin to spinstorying or generative autoethnography, that allows the triggering of memory to evolve into a collective sharing of experiences. Each turn in the associated exchanges deepens the authors’ argument about the nature of memory as both singular and shared. This performance script is drawn from a longer performative essay that began with a triggering idea, an entry made…
Don't Take Your Body to the West
What do the narratives of the West(ern) say about which bodies are celebrated and which bodies are warned away in the West(ern)? And how do such narratives echo globally while reinforcing American patterns of racist violence against nonwhite bodies? In this autoethnographic cultural analysis, I interweave songs and visuals with personal narratives of growing up in the Middle East and with continued incidents of racial violence in America. I seek …
Languages Perform Us
What are the stakes for colonized bodies in an allegedly postcolonial world where institutions still use the term non-native to classify those who speak a "first language" other than English? In this autoethnographic performance, I connect critical cultural theories with embodied linguistic negotiations of identity as a "multilingual" person teaching students at a public university in a predominately White region called "New England" in the Unite…
The Good, the Better, and the Beautiful
This coperformed autoethnographic inquiry explores 'the West' as both a seductive and a subjugating narrative terrain on which betweener identities must navigate the colonizing structures of Western epistemologies. On this terrain, we collaboratively engage the metaphors and tropes of 'Cowboys' and 'Indians' within a broader critique of knowledge production in the Western academy. As a decolonizing performance, our journey invites a collective tu…
Resisting (Resistance) Stories
This is a triple autoethnographic text written by three men of differing racial and cultural backgrounds with the purpose of exploring the nature of their relationships with their fathers. The authors reflect on experiences with their fathers seeking to find answers that might help them resist the replication of pain in their own parenting as well as (in one instance) the resistance to parenting altogether. In each intersecting movement the voice…
Betraying Performance
Speaking in Silences
I should say, abstractly, that this is about racism, if only I knew what races I should tattoo on my transnational post-colonial narcissistic subaltern brown body that so enjoys being white. I should rather say this is about silences invoked in my body during moments of misconstructed identity, silences between belonging and betrayal, if only I did not love dancing in the tensions between boring and exotic. I am saying much now, but I said little…
Resisting (Resistance) Stories
This is a triple autoethnographic text written by three men of differing racial and cultural backgrounds with the purpose of exploring the nature of their relationships with their fathers. The authors reflect on experiences with their fathers seeking to find answers that might help them resist the replication of pain in their own parenting as well as (in one instance) the resistance to parenting altogether. In each intersecting movement the voice…
Betraying Performance
Speaking in Silences
I should say, abstractly, that this is about racism, if only I knew what races I should tattoo on my transnational post-colonial narcissistic subaltern brown body that so enjoys being white. I should rather say this is about silences invoked in my body during moments of misconstructed identity, silences between belonging and betrayal, if only I did not love dancing in the tensions between boring and exotic. I am saying much now, but I said little…
The Good, the Better, and the Beautiful
This coperformed autoethnographic inquiry explores 'the West' as both a seductive and a subjugating narrative terrain on which betweener identities must navigate the colonizing structures of Western epistemologies. On this terrain, we collaboratively engage the metaphors and tropes of 'Cowboys' and 'Indians' within a broader critique of knowledge production in the Western academy. As a decolonizing performance, our journey invites a collective tu…
Resisting (Resistance) Stories
This is a triple autoethnographic text written by three men of differing racial and cultural backgrounds with the purpose of exploring the nature of their relationships with their fathers. The authors reflect on experiences with their fathers seeking to find answers that might help them resist the replication of pain in their own parenting as well as (in one instance) the resistance to parenting altogether. In each intersecting movement the voice…
Memory, Mourning, and Miracles
This triple autoethnography evidences a process of associative memory, akin to spinstorying or generative autoethnography, that allows the triggering of memory to evolve into a collective sharing of experiences. Each turn in the associated exchanges deepens the authors’ argument about the nature of memory as both singular and shared. This performance script is drawn from a longer performative essay that began with a triggering idea, an entry made…
Don't Take Your Body to the West
What do the narratives of the West(ern) say about which bodies are celebrated and which bodies are warned away in the West(ern)? And how do such narratives echo globally while reinforcing American patterns of racist violence against nonwhite bodies? In this autoethnographic cultural analysis, I interweave songs and visuals with personal narratives of growing up in the Middle East and with continued incidents of racial violence in America. I seek …
Languages Perform Us
What are the stakes for colonized bodies in an allegedly postcolonial world where institutions still use the term non-native to classify those who speak a "first language" other than English? In this autoethnographic performance, I connect critical cultural theories with embodied linguistic negotiations of identity as a "multilingual" person teaching students at a public university in a predominately White region called "New England" in the Unite…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Autoethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)