Srila Roy. Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement

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Trina Nileena Banerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in India. She has a Master's in English Literature from Jadavpur University, and a Masters of Studies (MSt) in English at the University of Oxford. Her PhD research focuses on a history of women in the group theater movement in Bengal between 1950 and 1980. Between 2011 and 2013, she taught at the Theater and Performance Studies Department at the School of Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is currently working on a monograph on Embodying Suffering: Interface(s) between Women's Protest Movements and Women's Performance in Contemporary Manipur (1980–2010). Her research interests include Gender, Performance, Political Theater, Theories of the Body, Postcolonial Theater and South Asian History. She has also been a theater and film actress, as well as a journalist and fiction writer/poet.