Papers by KRISHNAN UNNI.P
The Comparatist, 2024
This paper looks at the Dalit anger in the narratives of Manoranjan Byapari, the Dalit writer an... more This paper looks at the Dalit anger in the narratives of Manoranjan Byapari, the Dalit writer and activist from Bengal, India. The caveats of Dalit anger are examined in the post colonial context and the ways in which Dalit anger constitutes an alternate discourse is discussed in this paper.
SAMEEKSHA, Sociology Gaveshana Journal, 2023
This paper looks at the main theories of Bruno Latour, the eminent Sociologist . Based on Latour'... more This paper looks at the main theories of Bruno Latour, the eminent Sociologist . Based on Latour's Actor- Network theory, this paper analyzes the contemporary question of justice, modernity and other related areas of power, medicine and socio-scientific creeds.
Malayalam Literary Survey, 2023
This paper looks at the testimonial narrative of the female subject in two Malayalam women testim... more This paper looks at the testimonial narrative of the female subject in two Malayalam women testimonial narratives. The idea of the female self and the way in which testimonies construct a new niche of the life writing are given the central thrust in this paper
Keli Magazine, 2023
This paper looks at different adapatations of Shakespeares' plays into films and other genres
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 2021
In this paper, I will look at Bhanwar Meghwanshi's controversial life writing I Could Not Be Hind... more In this paper, I will look at Bhanwar Meghwanshi's controversial life writing I Could Not Be Hindu, from the angle of projecting an ethical dialogue for Dalit consciousness. The paradigms of Dalit identity, as often debated by several scholars, are based on how they express their crisis in relation to political situations and sensitive marginalization. In Meghwanshi's life writing, a new trope of identity crisis is provided based on systematic obfuscation from public spheres and participation such as marginalization, I argue, constitute a new ethical dimension of Dalit eloquence. However, this ethical stance is based on the Dalit subject's internal addressing related to change her/ his perspective of the 'given identity'. I will raise three fundamental questions relating to the above issue in this paper. First, an argument of private self vs the public sphere will be outlined to examine how the Dalit self in writing is prevented from the spheres of total expression. Next to this, I will argue that the ways of humiliation make the Dalit self ' becoming an animal' (paraphrasing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's term) by reconstituting the self's given notions of identity and transforming that construct for resistance.
Teresian Journal of English Studies, 2020
An examination of the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze and the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna.
Bhashaposhini, , 2020
This article looks at the genesis in the poetics of Louis Gluck, the Nobel laureate in 2020.
Samakalika Malayalam Weekly, 2020
English Studies in India, Vol.26, 2018
Theorizing Difference: An Examination of Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra
... more Theorizing Difference: An Examination of Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra
and The Campaign
KRISHNAN UNNI.P
This paper will examine the reconstructions of history in two novels of Carlos Fuentes- Terra Nostra and The Campaign. The history of Latin America, always perceived as a series of discontinuities and perplexities is mirrored in the texts of Fuentes with the notion of rehistoricizing the continent and literatures. The theoretical debates of history writing articulated by Hayden White as emplotment is perhaps best suited in the writing of Fuentes. Fuentes, at the same time, develops his concerns more emblematic following from the emplotted stories to a much serious plane where things, events and time could have perceived far different from the official history making. Writing has its own voices unheard within it as these histories, particularly in the context of Mexico, are understood. In Terra Nostra, the author undertakes a survey of Latin America’s relationship with various other empires and the history of Spain at large. This survey is meant to critique the way the continent is perceived by the other, which very much is implicitly present in the text. The hermeneutical and memory related histories as underlined by Hans Georg Gadamer become serious issues here. In The Campaign, the history of a particular decade is examined to rewrite the historical campaigns and office records of the 19th century. This history of the campaigns also becomes a modern allegory of contemporary revolutions as the author hints at the fluidity of historical exchanges..
This paper will enquire the ways in which Fuentes’s concern of history writing empanels in the fiction to understand the minute conjunctions of fiction and history. Secondly, a theoretical postulation of the postmodern Latin American perspective would be provided to study how Fuentes’s texts are not just historiographic metafictions ( paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon); but they have in them certain global concerns of history- making as the other side of representing what incidents and events are all about. Finally, an attempt would be provided to link Fuentes’s texts of multiple references to certain other indubitable discourses concerned with our time such as fictionality reflected in the construction of architecture, museums and related discourses.
A review in Malayalam on The Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Baez ( pub... more A review in Malayalam on The Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Baez ( published in Malayalam Weekly)
Both in sleep and in wakefulness, dreams are the indispensible components of survival. Histories ... more Both in sleep and in wakefulness, dreams are the indispensible components of survival. Histories of victories are the creations of dreams-by individuals, emperors, queens and mad men. The survival instincts can never find their expressions without this magic web in which all one's pre-histories are enmeshed like the tentacles of an octopus, seeking the prey constantly deviated from its spot. Sigmund Freud, the father figure of psychoanalysis gave meaning to these colours. But the post-Freudians rejected the meanings as they have fixities and fixations with respect to the changing patterns of the socio-cultural and historical conjunctions of humanity. With Structuralism and developments in Anthropology, new dimensions came up that gave dreams the language of infinite interpretations. Perhaps, Theodor Adorno's dreams reveal somewhat another side of all such blatant and empty theorizations. This Frankfurt School genius has too much verve and vivacity in jotting down the threads of dreams-more than what he experimented in his deepest conversation with the musical notations. He was the product of the difficult times. So were his dreams. Adorno's Dream Notes offers us a world of rejection, dilapidation, decadence and sorrow.
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and The Campaign
KRISHNAN UNNI.P
This paper will examine the reconstructions of history in two novels of Carlos Fuentes- Terra Nostra and The Campaign. The history of Latin America, always perceived as a series of discontinuities and perplexities is mirrored in the texts of Fuentes with the notion of rehistoricizing the continent and literatures. The theoretical debates of history writing articulated by Hayden White as emplotment is perhaps best suited in the writing of Fuentes. Fuentes, at the same time, develops his concerns more emblematic following from the emplotted stories to a much serious plane where things, events and time could have perceived far different from the official history making. Writing has its own voices unheard within it as these histories, particularly in the context of Mexico, are understood. In Terra Nostra, the author undertakes a survey of Latin America’s relationship with various other empires and the history of Spain at large. This survey is meant to critique the way the continent is perceived by the other, which very much is implicitly present in the text. The hermeneutical and memory related histories as underlined by Hans Georg Gadamer become serious issues here. In The Campaign, the history of a particular decade is examined to rewrite the historical campaigns and office records of the 19th century. This history of the campaigns also becomes a modern allegory of contemporary revolutions as the author hints at the fluidity of historical exchanges..
This paper will enquire the ways in which Fuentes’s concern of history writing empanels in the fiction to understand the minute conjunctions of fiction and history. Secondly, a theoretical postulation of the postmodern Latin American perspective would be provided to study how Fuentes’s texts are not just historiographic metafictions ( paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon); but they have in them certain global concerns of history- making as the other side of representing what incidents and events are all about. Finally, an attempt would be provided to link Fuentes’s texts of multiple references to certain other indubitable discourses concerned with our time such as fictionality reflected in the construction of architecture, museums and related discourses.
and The Campaign
KRISHNAN UNNI.P
This paper will examine the reconstructions of history in two novels of Carlos Fuentes- Terra Nostra and The Campaign. The history of Latin America, always perceived as a series of discontinuities and perplexities is mirrored in the texts of Fuentes with the notion of rehistoricizing the continent and literatures. The theoretical debates of history writing articulated by Hayden White as emplotment is perhaps best suited in the writing of Fuentes. Fuentes, at the same time, develops his concerns more emblematic following from the emplotted stories to a much serious plane where things, events and time could have perceived far different from the official history making. Writing has its own voices unheard within it as these histories, particularly in the context of Mexico, are understood. In Terra Nostra, the author undertakes a survey of Latin America’s relationship with various other empires and the history of Spain at large. This survey is meant to critique the way the continent is perceived by the other, which very much is implicitly present in the text. The hermeneutical and memory related histories as underlined by Hans Georg Gadamer become serious issues here. In The Campaign, the history of a particular decade is examined to rewrite the historical campaigns and office records of the 19th century. This history of the campaigns also becomes a modern allegory of contemporary revolutions as the author hints at the fluidity of historical exchanges..
This paper will enquire the ways in which Fuentes’s concern of history writing empanels in the fiction to understand the minute conjunctions of fiction and history. Secondly, a theoretical postulation of the postmodern Latin American perspective would be provided to study how Fuentes’s texts are not just historiographic metafictions ( paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon); but they have in them certain global concerns of history- making as the other side of representing what incidents and events are all about. Finally, an attempt would be provided to link Fuentes’s texts of multiple references to certain other indubitable discourses concerned with our time such as fictionality reflected in the construction of architecture, museums and related discourses.