Dr. Arunima Ray

Chapters in books:

  • “Thinking the Body, figuring (the) woman: Religion, Caste, Gender, and Identity” in Literary Representations in Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism. Eds. Sk Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar and Nasima Islam Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-032-25342-8 Pg. 92-103
  • “Caste, Gender and Dalit Women’s Discourse of Difference: Reading Bama’s Sangati and Sivakami’s The Grip of Change” in Reading Dalit. Ed. GJV Prasad. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2021. ISBN: 978-93-82-178-04-0. Pg. 144-152
  • “Poetry as Cultural Politics: A Reading of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetry” in The Changing World of Contemporary South Asian Poetry in English: A collection of Critical Essays, Eds. Mitali P. Wong and M. Yusuf Saeed. New York: Lexington Books, 2019. ISBN: 978-14-98574075. Pg. 119-130
  • Ray, A. (2015). Confronting the Aboriginal and the Colonial History: Reading White’s A Fringe of Leaves. In Subashish Bhattacharjee, Saikat Guha and Mandika Sinha (Eds). Postcolonial Approaches to Literature: Text, Context, Theory. In New Delhi: AuthorsPress. ISBN-10: 9352071190.
  • Ray, A. (2014). Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism: Reading Four Chapters. In Ray, Sarkar and Bhattacharya (Eds.). Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature (pp. 100-114). New Delhi: Atlantic. (ISBN 978-81-269-1938-3)
  • Ray, A. (2014). The Difference that Matters: Representation of Caste, Gender and Violence. In Mahasweta Devi (Ed.). Unmasking Power: Subjectivity and Resistance in Indian Drama in English (pp. 159-176). Guwahati: Papyrus (ISBN 978-93-81287- 40-8)
  • Ray, A. (2011). Gender in Dalit Discourse: Reading Sivakami’s The Grip of Change. In Girindra Narayan Ray and Jaydip Sarkar (Eds.). The Postcolonial Woman Question: Readings in Indian Women Novelists in English (pp. 197- 212). Kolkata: Books Way. (ISBN 978- 93- 80145- 84- 6)

Papers in Journals (National/ International):

  • “Introduction” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Special Issue: Indian Writing in English: Perspectives of the Plural Nationspace, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer 2021 , ISSN: 0252-8169 (Guest Editor: Arunima Ray)
  • “Reading Gender in Rudali across Genres”, in Muse India, Issue 77, (January & February) 2018, ISSN: 0975-1815.
  • “Karna-Kunti Sambad: Tagore’s Politics of Translation and Transcreation”, in The Apollonian, Vol. 3, Issue 1 & 2 (March-June) 2016, ISSN: 23939001
  • Ray, A. (2015). The Politics of the Body: Wollstonecraft Interrogating Rousseau. The Apollonia, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (December). ISSN 2393 9001
  • Ray, A. (2015). From the Koel’s Call to a Rusty Nail’s Song: Understanding Buddhadeva Bose’s Poetic Odyssey, in Muse India, 44, July-August. (ISSN: 0975- 1815). 
    Available at http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2012&issid=44&id=3518
  • Ray, A. (2012). Desire, Power, Transcendence: Reading Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things in Muse India, 46, November-December 2012, literary e-journal. (ISSN: 0975-1815). 
    Available at http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2012&issid=46&id=3742
  • Ray, A. (2012), Understanding Jibanananda’s Different Poetic Sensibility in Parabaas, Issue 12, Bengali web magazine. 
    Available at http://www.parabaas.com/jd/articles/arunima_poeticsensibility.shtml
  • Ray, A. (2011). Caste, Gender and Dalit Women’s Discourse of Difference: Reading Bama’s Sangati and Sivakami’s The Grip of Change in Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Special Issue on Dalit Literature, Spring, 58-65. (ISSN 0972-9682)
  • Ray, A. (2011). Signatures of Subversion: Reading Bama’s Sangati. The Atlantic Literary Review, 12(1), 46-61. (ISSN 0972-3269)

Book Reviews in Journals:

  • Ray, A. (2012). Ma, Mati, Manush and the Politics of Our Didi. [Review of the book My Unforgettable Memories, by M. Bannerjee).45. (ISSN: 0975-1815). Retrieved from http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2012&issid=45&id=3638

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences :

  • “Coming Out as Dalit and Made in Heaven: The Erasure of Dalit Identity, Dalit Representation and Caste Performativity” at the Pramana International Research Conference organized by Symbiosis Centre for Media and communication, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University , Pune on 19 and 20 January, 2024.
  • “Women and Violence in Urban Spaces: Modalities, Spaces and Narratives” at the 17 th Annual Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA 2023), held at Warmadewa College, Bali, Indonesia on June 29 – July 1, 2023.
  • Ray, A. (2012). Caste, Gender and Violence: Reading Mahashweta Devi’s Bayenand Draupadi, ‘3rd Biennial International Conference, Gender/Violence’, organised by The Gender and Women Studies Research and Application Centre, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey from 4-6th April, 2012.
  • Ray, A. (2011). Caste and Gender Politics: Untying a Few Dalit Texts, International Conference for Academic Disciplines, organised by American University of Rome, Rome 31st October- 3rd November, 2011.
  • Ray, A. (2011). Caste, Class and Gender Politics: Untying Some Dalit Texts, 20th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, organised by The University of Southern Georgia, USA, on 25-26th February, 2011.
  • Ray, A. (2010). Caste, Gender and Dalit Women’s Discourse: Reading Bama’s Sangatiand Sivakami’s The Grip of Change, 3 Day International Conference on ‘Diversity in New Literatures’, organised by the Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 16-18th December, 2010.
  • Ray, A. (2010). Signatures of Subversion: Reading Bama’s Sangati, presented in Dalit Literature: Past Trends and Present Concerns (UGC and ICSSR sponsored national seminar), organised by Department of English, Government P.G. College, Lansdowne, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, 4-5th October, 2010.

Invited Lectures:

  • Invited as a speaker at the plenary session of the seminar titled “Literature and the Abominable” held at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, New Delhi on 13- 14 February, 2020. The title of the paper presented, “Thinking the Body, Figuring (the) Woman: Gender, Caste and Identity in Literary Representations”)

Others:

  • Ray, A. (2012). Film review ‘Tagore Again/Tagore Always: For an Understanding Of Tagore Or Ourselves?: A review’ of the Bengali film Nobel Chor (Nobel Thief Director Suman Ghosh 2012) in Cerebration (www.cerebration.org)