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GEETA PATEL
Geeta Patel, Lyrical movements, historical hauntings: gender, colonialism, and desire in Miraji's Urdu poetry, (Stanford), reads a renegade writer through gender, sexuality, translation and grief in 20th century Urdu political and poetic movements. Her theoretical stance, informed by queer post-colonial theory is fashioned in Gendering the Global Nation (Women Unlimited, forthcoming). She translates prose and poetry from Urdu, Hindi and Sanskrit. Her current project, Financing Selves, is on risk, insurance and pensions in South Asia. |
