Paul VEYRET is a Senior Lecturer in British Literature at Bordeaux 3 University. His research focuses on various topics such as contemporary British authors such as Alex Gardland, Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro, but also Indian literature and cinema. Paul also co-founded a research group (DESI) dedicated to indian diaspora.

Themes about analysis of LEILA

A biopolitcal reading of present-day India?

Zoe vs bios and permanence of ‘state-of-exception’?
Women, Muslims and ‘Dossh’ as collective ‘homo sacer’ (disposable beings)
Importance of borders, limits and transgressions

A geocritical reading of Leila* (Bertrand Westphal)*

Creation of a plausible world (text precedes world?)*
Question of referentiality and ‘realemes’
Familiar/unfamiliar
Importance of flashbacks and ‘dream sequences’
Question of audience reception and connection with realism
Genre fiction as unmapping/remapping Indian subcontient

Part of trend in genre Indian series*

// Ghoul (horror, 2018), Delhi Crime (true crime, 2019)
// same topics: violence against women and marginalization of Muslims, rise of populism etc.
// India cinema// Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wassypour, Raman Raghav 2.0)=vision of India as corrupt and violent place

Problematic representation of women*

Agency?
Re-exoticising violence against women?
Netflix and not chill? *
(local politics and global audiences)