Ranjana Khanna je literárna kritička a teoretička, uznávaná pre svoje interdisciplinárne, feministické a internacionalistické príspevky v oblasti postkoloniálnych štúdií, feministickej teórie, literatúry a politickej filozofie. Jej práca skúma prienik literatúry, politiky a feminizmu, pričom sa zameriava na kritické zhodnotenie globálnych naratívov a mocenských štruktúr.
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