Manas Ray

Fellow in Cultural Studies

Ph.D. (Griffith University, Australia)

Research Interests:   

Liberalism and technologies of governance, History, Memory and Narrative in the discourse of Indian Partition, Politics of Representation of Post-Partition Calcutta, Cultural Lives of Indian Diasporas.

Courses Taught:
 

Cultures of Postcoloniality

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

1. History, Memory and Nostalgia, special issue of Margins, Calcutta (co-edited with Anjan Ghosh), 2001
    

2. Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Space (A Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Publication in collaboration with ENRECA of Denmark and SEPHIS of the Netherlands), 2003

 JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (In English)

1. “Life of the Past: Indian Bengali Diaspora and the nostalgia for the modern” Scottish Church College Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Calcutta, Vol. 2, 2005,pp.137-165 

2. “Chalo Jahaji: Bollywood in Diaspora – in the tracks of indenture to globalization” in City Flicks, edited by Preben Kaarsholm, Seagull, 2004, pp. 138-179

3. “Growing Up Refugee: on memory and locality” History Workshop Journal, London,Number 53, 2002, pp. 149 – 179.

4. “Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood" in Karim H Karim edited, The Media of Diaspora,Transnationalism Series, Routledge, London, 2003 pp. 21 – 39 

5. “Bollywood Down Under: Fiji Indian Cultural History and Popular Assertion” in Floating Lives: the Media and Asian Diasporas (edited by Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair, Rowman and Littlefield, USA, 2001, pp. 136 – 184) 

6. “From Holocaust to Partition: on History and Memory” in Margins, Calcutta, January – June, 2001 

7. “India: 50 years on”, theme essay of  Fifty Years of Indian Development (edited by P. K. Basu and C. A. Tisdell), University of Queensland Press, Queensland 1998, 123 - 146 

8. "Indian Television: an emerging regional power" (co-author: Liz Jacka) in New Patterns in Global Television (edited by John Sinclair, Stuart Cunningham and Liz Jacka) Oxford University Press, London, 1995

9. “"Mine is the cinema of strong survivors" conversation with Gautam Ghosh on contemporary Bengali Cinema) ,East West Film Journal, East-West Centre, Hawaii, Vol.8, No.2, 1994, pp 105 – 121 

10. “Marxism: The Dilemma of Critique” Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, June 12, 1993

11. "Ethics and Government: setting limits to critique" Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, September 26, 1992

 Articles in Bengali:

1. Uttam Kumar Saloon: Bastuchyuta Sanglap (“Uttam Kumar Saloon: Displaced Narrative”) [A life-story of a Barber], Abobhash, May - August, 2007, pp. 55 – 105 

2. Aponkatha: Mithya-Satya’r Kaboya [Life Story: the poetics of falsehood and truth], Abobhash, May – August, 2007, pp. 44 – 54

3.  “Chalo Jahaji: Chukti Sharom theke Golokayan – Jatisatta Nirmane Bollywood” (“Chalo Jahaji: from indenture to lobalization – Bollywood in the making of national identity”) Anustup, October-December, 2003.

4. “Uttaradhunikatar phatal theke: Alexander Kluge-r cinema” (“In the cracks of postmodernism: the cinema of Alexander Kluge”) Alochana Chakra, July-December, 2002

5.  “Kata Dehe Gharer Khonj” (“In search of a severed land”) Baromash, 2001

6.  “Vivan Sunderam-er Installation” (“Vivan Sundaram’s Installation”) Nandimuk, January, 1999

7. “Ekti Pukurer Itihas: Cultural Studies proshanghe du char katha” (“History of a Pond: a note on Cultural Studies”) Jogsutra, 1995

8. “Adhipatya: Gramsci theke Foucault” (“Hegemony: from Gramsci to Foucault”) Samaj Bikshan, February, 1994

 Features and op-edits (2007 – 2008):

1. “Saurav: stretches beyond cricket”, Mainstream, June 22—28, 2007, pp. 27-28
2. “Tarkapriya Bangali” [“Argumentative Bengali”], India Today Bangla, August, 2007

3. “Balibar: Bastaber Bhashyakar” [“Balibar: spokesperson of reality”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 17 September, 2007

4. “Trail Room-e Asto Sahar” [“Changing Cityscape of Calcutta”]. India Today Bangla, October, 2007

5. “Nijeke Notun Kore Sajanor Shiksha” [“The lesson to organize oneself anew”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 11 December, 2007

6. “Asanto Pakistan Bharater Pakshe Shubha Sangbad Noi” [“A Turbulent Pakistan is no good news for India”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 27 February, 2008

7. “Benazir nei, Musharaf ke Charte Naraj America” [“With Benazir not there, US not ready to leave Musharaf”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 28 February, 2008

8. “Paramanu Chukti: Prosno Rajnitir” [“Nuclear Deal: the question is political”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 20 March, 2008

9. “Thanda Larai Kintu Theme Geche, eta bodhhoi kheyal nei” [“That the Cold War is over perhaps escapes us”], Ananda Bazar Patrika, 21 March, 2008

 Translation:

1. “The Heterotopia of Calcutta’s Durga Puja” [essay by Pradip Bose in Amit Chaudhuri ed. Penguin Anthology of Calcutta; forthcoming: September 2008. The same volume contains my essay, “Growing Up Refugee”]