Papers by Pallavi Narayan
The Best Asian Short Stories 2023, 2024
This story is one woman’s contemplation on the loss of her husband in Singapore, the loss of a li... more This story is one woman’s contemplation on the loss of her husband in Singapore, the loss of a life she thought she thought she would live, and the very loss of her own identity in the middle of the fiasco that her marriage descended into. It recounts an intercultural marriage of Stella, a Eurasian woman, a refined, cultured, well-read lady with Arang, a Thai man who manipulates her into thinking he is the one. Instead, he comes with a grave personality disorder that creates havoc in Stella’s life and leaves with post-traumatic stress disorder and scars that take years of concentrated effort and therapy to heal. Through this narrative, Stella attempts to use her literary mind to make sense of this unexpected ending her life story as she charts new paths through the confusing maze of her mind. Her parents, extended family, friends Sujata and Zi Xuan, and particularly her therapist Miranda, help her at various stages in this journey of reclaiming, and reframing, her loss of self. Perceiving herself as the writer of her new story, or perhaps of her life for the first time, Stella starts out uncertainly but gains her footing as she receives a compassionate and empathetic space and indeed starts creating this space for the lost little girl inside her.
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Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade, Jun 2, 2021
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Pamuk's Istanbul, Apr 12, 2022
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'Art' and 'memory' are prominent areas of inquiry in geographical... more 'Art' and 'memory' are prominent areas of inquiry in geographical research. Artistic and memory work often overlap in our studies through practices and processes aimed at bringing people together in experimental, affective, and collective ways. In this introduction to the special issue, we write collectively as 12 authors to reflect on the histories, inspirations, and future trajectories of these intersecting concerns in geographical research. Our reflections stem from our collective participation and discussions of issues at the intersections of art, memory and geographical research, during an online workshop and our individual-and-collective reflections later through the process of writing this piece. We hope our discussions further interest on the possibilities for creative, collaborative, and decolonial interventions to memory in geography. And, incidentally, we hope that our editorial may be of interest for future research into the value and practices of collective geographic scholarship.
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Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, known familiarly as The Met, is a traditional... more The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, known familiarly as The Met, is a traditional edifice housing both traditional and innovative art through the ages. In this article, I examine its representation in the recently published Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson. Beginning with the threshold as the point of defining and delineating entrances and exits, in-side and outside in a state of fluidity and play, I examine the construction of spaces of rest and homelike spaces in the museum, as well as of resting in the home. I peruse pertinent examples and provide their analysis to display a performance of home in the museum, connecting human and non-human in a synergy of wordless communication.
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IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, 2021
Female perspective and agency in Delhi from the 1920s to the 1940s do not usually find mention wi... more Female perspective and agency in Delhi from the 1920s to the 1940s do not usually find mention with regard to novels written about that significant period. Much celebrated novels such as Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali and The Heart Has Its Reasons by Krishna Sobti are usually viewed as nostalgic evocations of the lost past of the city as it was moving out of colonial rule and into a new era. This paper examines the complexities of gender relations and segregation as offered in the novels, which mirror and showcase the gradual intensification of the colonised city shifting into a space of independence, although at first with timid hesitation. It displays the novels as structuring and perpetuating gendered relationships between women and men as also, importantly, between women in the household and those outside it. While published in markedly different times, the everyday lived realities of the time as explored in Delhi's literary landscape by Ali and Sobti exhibit great similarities in the gendered ramifications of female dispossession as per policy, and the economic implications of women's property being in the hands of "their" men. Transformations in the city space influence domestic spaces, impacting the female characters. In examining these socio-spatial segregations in early urban Delhi literature, the paper opens the field for further research on economic systems in literary texts.
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Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies on Inter-Asian Society Project, 2020
Large state museums thrive on global exchange and international movement, and rapidly opened thei... more Large state museums thrive on global exchange and international movement, and rapidly opened their doors to virtual tourism soon after the COVID-19 pandemic struck. They already have a strong online presence with technical teams ready to adapt to online modes of viewing and visiting. However, there is no collaborative platform for museums in India thus far. Private museums are emerging as the new players to fill in this gap. They provide a space for collectors to showcase their work in a curated display and a platform for artists to push boundaries in the expression of local art forms, fusing knowledges from varied influences and consequently decolonizing their showcase. However, they would be facing a harder time during this period as not only do they need to curate their displays online, they also have to keep visitors engaged or even create new audiences when they may be fairly fresh ventures. In this essay, I examine select Indian private museums in the context of Georg Simmel’s seminal essay “The Stranger,” which provides an apt metaphor for the current global situation. Dwelling on museums such as Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi and Noida; Museum of Goa, Goa; and Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, the article also includes insights from founders of digital collections such as the Museum of Material Memory and the Museum Memories Project. I draw attention to spaces that have made virtual presence their strength from the get-go, and engage with some of the coping strategies that museums are using to deal with the staggering changes that are suddenly required in 2020. Throughout the essay, I bring in Simmel’s conceptualization of the stranger as a group member who is simultaneously near and far. This provides an opening to think about the universalizing strategies that local museums need to adapt to build a “characteristic of relations founded only on generally human commonness.”
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Poetry by Pallavi Narayan
Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus: The Anthology , 2020
Anthology of poetry edited by G.A. Cuddy
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Genre Urban Arts , 2021
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The Initial Journal, 2020
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Bound India, 2020
Selected as one of the top 3 entries in Bound India's Valentine's Day Short Story Contest, this s... more Selected as one of the top 3 entries in Bound India's Valentine's Day Short Story Contest, this short story explores an intriguing campus love story between two memorable characters. It make one nostalgic for their college days. The story also makes one ponder on the fragility of romantic love, attraction and separation.
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Kitaab, 2019
Introduced and translated by Pallavi Narayan
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Poetry by Pallavi Narayan
Review of my poetry in The Bayside Journal: http://baysidejournal.com/wp/40-under-40-an-anthology-of-post-globalisation-poetry-is-a-must-read-for-80s-90s-kids/
Review of my poetry in Firstpost: http://www.firstpost.com/living/40-under-40-an-anthology-of-post-globalisation-poetry-is-more-than-a-must-read-2826992.html?utm_source=FP_CAT_LATEST_NEWS
The writers featured in this anthology include Isha B., Azeena Badarudeen, Ilya Katrinnada Binte Zubaidi, Arathi Devandran, Dia Feng-Lowe, Surinder Kaur, Ken Lye, Cecilia Mahendran, Gargi Mehra, Kalpana Mohan, Clara Mok, Payal Morankar, Vanessa Ng Q.R., Rolinda Onates Española, Anna Onni, Anjali Patil, Ranjani Rao, Aparna Das Sadhukhan, Euginia Tan, Audrey Tay and Phyllis Wong.
Further, the monograph explores the formation of communal and literary identity within and around nation-building narratives informed by capitalism and modernization. The book also examines how Pamuk uses the postmodern city to move beyond its postmodern confines, and utilizes the theories and universes of Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Foucault to open up his fiction and radically challenge the idea of the novel.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, literary theory, museum studies, architecture, and cultural studies, and especially appeal to readers of Orhan Pamuk.
Table of Contents
1. Imagining Pamuk’s Istanbul 2. Situating Istanbul 3. Pamuk’s Fictional Universe 4. Moving through the Neighborhood 5. Flâneur in the City-Museum 6. Dreaming Objects in the Museum of Innocence 7. Recording the City Appendix: A Life in Words: Maureen Freely on Translating Orhan Pamuk
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“Narayan’s well-researched and theoretically informed analysis reads Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s work along a spectrum of the modern and the postmodern while revisiting tropes of cosmopolitan subjectivity through an original literary cartography of affect, object, and urban space. Narayan concludes with an insightful scalar shift, placing Pamuk’s fiction into a world literary constellation.” — Erdağ Göknar, translator of My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2001) and author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (2013)
“Narayan’s captivating book on Pamuk takes an unusual approach—choosing as its focus the subject of architecture and the urban to view the Turkish novelist’s work, through the lens of Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Foucault. The actual historical background to the formation of modern Istanbul is skillfully invoked to provide a detailed look at how the architectural plays a central role in Pamuk’s complex meditation on identity. At the end, Pamuk devotees will also find a fascinating interview with one of his translators, Maureen Freely, providing some little known details on the background of the books themselves and their translation into English.” — Ian Almond, Professor of World Literatures, Georgetown University Qatar
“Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City by Pallavi Narayan brings a powerful critical nuance to Orhan Pamuk's work. Her masterful book captures the materiality of Istanbul, descriptions of characters, time, and spaces that transform the quotidian subject of Istanbul. Her juxtapositions of the modern and secular Istanbul to the rich descriptions of the mahalles of the city offers the reader a unique stroll through a museum-laboratory, Turkish homes, architecture, and the fictional representation of objects. She brings these objects to life as if they were characters in Pamuk's writings. Narayan is bringing Pamuk’s Istanbul and his writing to a place of brilliant imagination and new landscapes of thinking. A book that inspires to analyse the depths of Orhan Pamuk’s Turkey and its representation in the world of fiction and truth.” — Mehnaz. M. Afridi, Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College
1. "Burning Man" (Location: Havelock Island, Andaman & Nicobar Islands)
2. "Rhinoceros" (Location: Andaman & Nicobar Islands)
3. "Enchanted Wood" (Location: Chidiyatapu, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands)
4. "Pinocchio and Geppetto" (Location: Mumbai)
5. "Blush" (Location: Mumbai)
The schisms, fissures, and conflicts of the colonial state, and later of the postcolonial nation state which is increasingly marked by the economic and cultural processes of globalization, accompanied paradoxically, and perhaps inevitably, by bitter local and ethnic conflicts are critically analysed in the context of the local, national, and global financial networks within which cinema is located is also taken up.
This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.
In this volume, Guillermo Rodríguez explores these possibilities by analysing the works of one of Indias finest poets, translators, essayists, and scholars of the twentieth century, A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993).
A spectrum of published and unpublished sources-including some of Ramanujans hitherto unknown private diaries, notes, poetry drafts, and scholarly writings sourced from the A.K. Ramanujan Papers archived at the University of Chicago-are studied to illuminate the influence of classical Tamil, medieval bhakti, and oral folk aesthetics and literature on his work. This vastly informative and critical work makes us aware of his attention to the various aesthetic and poetic contexts in his life and work, and shows how these are reflected in his writings as a way of thinking and nurturing force behind his creative self.
Monuments and reminders of the Killing Fields abound in the city of Phnom Penh. Nearly 2 million Cambodians, including many artists, perished during the killings or died of starvation and disease during the Khmer Rouge years. Today, the dancers, both young and old, move towards the future while respecting and honouring the past. This volume documents their journey.
Young Indian dance artists are courageously charting out new trajectories in dance, diverging from the time-worn paths of tradition. The classical forms of Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Odissi and Manipuri, to name a few, are rich resources for choreographers exploring contemporary dance. This volume speaks about their struggles of working within and outside tradition as they grapple with national and international audience expectations as well as their own values and sense of identity.
The artists represented here continue to question the uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and outside reality. Simultaneously, they are actively creating new dance languages that are both articulate in a performative context and demand examination by researchers and critics.
Since the emergence of Postcolonial Theory in the 1980s, the shape of the world has changed dramatically. Old Cold War boundaries have shifted in the wake of the collapse of communism, Globalization, on an unprecedented scale, has dramatically changed the meaning of time and space. The rise of the US as a new imperial power has profound implications for the world order. In the South, new emerging markets have challenged the older division of industrial ‘first world’ and non-industrial ‘third world’.
In most parts of the world, the academy is struggling to keep up with these developments. One result has been a major transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences. Terms like ‘world history’, ‘globalization’, ‘glocalization’ and ‘transnationalism’ now dominate academic agendas worldwide.
These changing circumstances raise far-reaching questions. What does the new emerging world order mean for established models of postcolonial theory? Is postcolonialism as a field of study being overtaken by models of globalization and transnationalism? What implications do the new configurations in the South have for postcolonial theory? This volume provides a set of perspectives on these questions. With a majority of contributions by scholars from the South, these research articles have a dual focus – they revisit older debates on postcolonial theory, while suggesting new perspectives and directions.
This volume will interest those in language and literature, literary criticism, South Asian studies, and postcolonial studies.
This second edition will be of interest to academics and students of gender studies, women’s studies, international studies, development studies, human rights, security studies, peace studies and peace education.
The ambition of this volume is not only to complicate standing representations of Pakistan. It is take Pakistan out of the status of exceptionalism that its multiple crises have endowed upon it. By now, many scholars have written of how exile, migrancy, refugeedom, and other modes of displacement constitute modern subjectivities. The arguments made in the book say that Pakistan is no stranger to this condition of human immigrancy and therefore, can be pressed into service in helping us to understand our present condition.
Separateness between Hindus and Muslims grew reciprocally, with hardening religious identities and the growing frequency of incidents of conflict. These skirmishes had several dimensions: symbolic (desecrating places of worship), societal (conversions), and physical (violence against women). As mutual trust declined, a quarter century of negotiations under diverse auspices failed to yield an agreement, and even the framework of the Partition in 1947 was imposed by the colonial rulers.
A theoretically informed study, this book takes a comparative stance along several axes. Recognizing long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as of cooperation), it will be of interest to students of conflicts, Partitions, history, sociology, and South Asian studies.
The book will interest those in media and communication studies, journalism, language and literature, sociology and culture studies.
The book establishes clearly that rural development implies more than transformation of traditional agriculture. Apart from ensuring efficient use of limited resources to sustain agricultural production, rural policy should encompass promotion of non-farm activities, investments in social and economic structure and civic amenities.
The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation.