A Disproportionate Display of Force: The Lure of Epic Rage
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
Torsa Ghosal is the author of a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind: Mode, Meditation, and Cognition in Twenty-First Century Narrative (Ohio State University Press, 2021), and an experimental novella, Open Couplets (Yoda Press, India, 2017). Her fiction and personal essays have appeared in Catapult, Necessary Fiction, Literary Hub, Public Seminar, Bustle, and elsewhere. Her academic work considers the conceptualizations of cognition and emotion in contemporary Anglophone literature and multimodal arts, and her writings on these topics can be found in journals like Poetics Today, Studies in the Novel, and Storyworlds. She is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and a host for the Narrative for Social Justice podcast. You can follow her on Twitter @TorsaG and Instagram @torsa_ghosal.
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
Torsa Ghosal reviews the English translation of Bangladeshi British author Leesa Gazi’s novel “Good Girls.”
Torsa Ghosal talks with Sorayya Khan about her new memoir, “We Take Our Cities with Us.”
The author discusses her debut novel, “Border Less,” and the multiple artistic and cultural boundaries it straddles.