Ranjana Khanna es una crítica y teórica literaria reconocida por sus contribuciones interdisciplinarias, feministas e internacionalistas a los estudios poscoloniales, la teoría feminista, la literatura y la filosofía política. Su trabajo examina la intersección de la literatura, la política y el feminismo, enfatizando una reevaluación crítica de las narrativas globales y las estructuras de poder. La erudición de Khanna ofrece una lente vital a través de la cual comprender las complejas dinámicas globales y los diversos marcos teóricos.
Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present
Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman under colonial rule in Algeria as well as within the postcolonial independent nation-state through an interdisciplinary framework that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestoes, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria.
Argues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcoloniality and decolonization. schovat popis