Subversive Spirituality: woman as saint-poet in medieval India, 1993
Synopsis-The Bhakti or Devotion movements of medieval India have produced an impressive body of w... more Synopsis-The Bhakti or Devotion movements of medieval India have produced an impressive body of writing by women whose attempts to write themselves into sainthood and poethood reflect the tensions and contradictions involved in challenging patriarchal ideologies. Focusing on the work of one woman Bhakti poet, Mahadeviyakka, this paper attempts to write about the woman in two distinct registers: the woman as saint/the saint as woman in the religious register; the woman as poet/the poet as woman in the aesthetic register. An analysis of the ways in which Mahadeviy akka appropriates the conventions of love-poetry to destabilize accepted ways of meaning reveals that her startling treatment of a common metaphor transforms her verses into gestures of subver sion and intervention that call sexual stereotypes into question. At the same time, the unfixed posi tion of femininity in Hindu symbolic systems inscribes the poetry of the woman-saint with an un derlying paradox.
Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of ... more Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.
... (5). In such formulations, proletarian migrancy or nomad labor, which Marx had seen as a symp... more ... (5). In such formulations, proletarian migrancy or nomad labor, which Marx had seen as a symptom of the power of capital ... Yet this antipathy, Aditya Nigam suggests, was rooted in something more than the mere sociological fact that most Indian Marxist leaders were uppercaste. ...
Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most
fertile discourses of ... more Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.
Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 1995
Mythologies of migrancy: postcolonialism, postmodernism and the politics of(dis) location. REVATH... more Mythologies of migrancy: postcolonialism, postmodernism and the politics of(dis) location. REVATHI KRISHNASWAMY Ariel(Calgary) 26 ...
... Two Indians who have distinguished themselves with the keenness of their efforts to succeed i... more ... Two Indians who have distinguished themselves with the keenness of their efforts to succeed in Hollywood are director Mira Nair and actress Aishwarya Rai. ... Choudhary, Anuradha. 2004. "Aishwarya Rai: Global Glitter" (interview). Film/are (October): 46-54. Desai, Jigna. 2004. ...
At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to t... more At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to teach The Kite Runner, the best-selling novel by Afghani-American writer and local resident, Khaled Hosseini. In-coming freshman this year have been given free copies and reading groups have been formed in every dormitory. But the novel has become a phenomenal success well beyond the silicon valley. Since its publication in 2003, nearly 2.5 million copies of the book have been printed and over 1.5 million sold. It has been on the New York Times best-seller list for over a year and it is currently number 8 on Library Journal’s list of the most borrowed fiction books, as reported by U.S. libraries. What explains the runaway success of this debut novel, the first Afghani work in English? Its sheer literary merit? Effective marketing? It is indeed difficult to ignore the irony of the historical moment: a fictional work by an Afghani-American writer is capturing the hearts of American readers ...
... or systematic scrutiny of the links between postcolonialism and globalization theory. 2. The ... more ... or systematic scrutiny of the links between postcolonialism and globalization theory. 2. The links are at once considerable and complicated. Despite differences in disciplinary origin (globalization theory in the social sciences, particularly sociology, and postcolonial theory in the ...
At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to t... more At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to teach The Kite Runner, the best-selling novel by Afghani-American writer and local resident, Khaled Hosseini. In-coming freshman this year have been given free copies and reading ...
Subversive Spirituality: woman as saint-poet in medieval India, 1993
Synopsis-The Bhakti or Devotion movements of medieval India have produced an impressive body of w... more Synopsis-The Bhakti or Devotion movements of medieval India have produced an impressive body of writing by women whose attempts to write themselves into sainthood and poethood reflect the tensions and contradictions involved in challenging patriarchal ideologies. Focusing on the work of one woman Bhakti poet, Mahadeviyakka, this paper attempts to write about the woman in two distinct registers: the woman as saint/the saint as woman in the religious register; the woman as poet/the poet as woman in the aesthetic register. An analysis of the ways in which Mahadeviy akka appropriates the conventions of love-poetry to destabilize accepted ways of meaning reveals that her startling treatment of a common metaphor transforms her verses into gestures of subver sion and intervention that call sexual stereotypes into question. At the same time, the unfixed posi tion of femininity in Hindu symbolic systems inscribes the poetry of the woman-saint with an un derlying paradox.
Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of ... more Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.
... (5). In such formulations, proletarian migrancy or nomad labor, which Marx had seen as a symp... more ... (5). In such formulations, proletarian migrancy or nomad labor, which Marx had seen as a symptom of the power of capital ... Yet this antipathy, Aditya Nigam suggests, was rooted in something more than the mere sociological fact that most Indian Marxist leaders were uppercaste. ...
Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most
fertile discourses of ... more Indian Dalit and Latin American liberation philosophies are among the most fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.
Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 1995
Mythologies of migrancy: postcolonialism, postmodernism and the politics of(dis) location. REVATH... more Mythologies of migrancy: postcolonialism, postmodernism and the politics of(dis) location. REVATHI KRISHNASWAMY Ariel(Calgary) 26 ...
... Two Indians who have distinguished themselves with the keenness of their efforts to succeed i... more ... Two Indians who have distinguished themselves with the keenness of their efforts to succeed in Hollywood are director Mira Nair and actress Aishwarya Rai. ... Choudhary, Anuradha. 2004. "Aishwarya Rai: Global Glitter" (interview). Film/are (October): 46-54. Desai, Jigna. 2004. ...
At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to t... more At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to teach The Kite Runner, the best-selling novel by Afghani-American writer and local resident, Khaled Hosseini. In-coming freshman this year have been given free copies and reading groups have been formed in every dormitory. But the novel has become a phenomenal success well beyond the silicon valley. Since its publication in 2003, nearly 2.5 million copies of the book have been printed and over 1.5 million sold. It has been on the New York Times best-seller list for over a year and it is currently number 8 on Library Journal’s list of the most borrowed fiction books, as reported by U.S. libraries. What explains the runaway success of this debut novel, the first Afghani work in English? Its sheer literary merit? Effective marketing? It is indeed difficult to ignore the irony of the historical moment: a fictional work by an Afghani-American writer is capturing the hearts of American readers ...
... or systematic scrutiny of the links between postcolonialism and globalization theory. 2. The ... more ... or systematic scrutiny of the links between postcolonialism and globalization theory. 2. The links are at once considerable and complicated. Despite differences in disciplinary origin (globalization theory in the social sciences, particularly sociology, and postcolonial theory in the ...
At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to t... more At San Jose State University, California, where I teach, it has become practically mandatory to teach The Kite Runner, the best-selling novel by Afghani-American writer and local resident, Khaled Hosseini. In-coming freshman this year have been given free copies and reading ...
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fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.
fertile discourses of emancipation the modern world has produced, despite their vastly different geographical, historical, political, and sociocultural coordinates. Yet little critical attention has been devoted to systematically connect or compare these two powerful ideological formations. This essay attempts to fill this gap by delinking the Indian Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar from the theoretical discourses of postcolonialism and postmodernism, and linking him to the decolonial framework of transmodernism developed by Latin American liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel. Framing the affiliation between Ambedkar and Dussel in terms of ideological similarity and political solidarity, I present Ambedkar as a transmodern thinker who precedes and exceeds Dussel, placing him at the head of a global vanguard fighting to lay the epistemological foundation for a critical universal enlightenment.