Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Invadable “Bodies” and the Violence of Racialization
AbstractThis essay will think through and challenge normative ideas of violence and the body in the discourse of racialized violence. Conceptually...
From Entangled Memories to Entangled Decoloniality
Soviet Nostalgia in Latvia’s Postcolonial Present
Abstract
This article explores Soviet nostalgia in Latvia as a prism through which to rethink decolonial theory in post-Soviet Europe. Drawing on...
Dis(b)ordered Lives
Decolonial Temporalities and Borderland Identities in Latvian and Lithuanian Documentary Film
Abstract
This article theorizes “border(land) time” through two post- Soviet Bal-tic borderlands— the eastern Latvian region of...
Kolkata as a Postcolonial “Global City”
A Critical Representation of Kolkata’s Transition in Select Fictions and Films
Abstract
This paper aims to critically explore Kolkata as a postcolonial “global city” through the interpretation of Satyajit Ray’s film...
Saleem as an Official Empath in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
AbstractLiterary authors sometimes use empathy as a tool to encourage border crossing between readers of different cultures or even to provide access to...
Cultural Misrepresentation
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Navigation of Indian Culture in the Role of a Cultural Translator in Interpreter of Maladies
Abstract
In this essay, the short stories in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri are critically examined through the lens of her position as a...