ABOUT THE TALK
Fieldwork as a Sex Object is Meena Kandasamy’s new work of fiction. When a deepfake porn video of Amrita—a young Marxist student known as Amy in her London circles—goes viral, she’s swept into a hate storm. When her attempt to flip the script, Kardashian-style, backfires spectacularly, she takes the help of her friends to stem the onslaught. Fieldwork As A Sex Object skewers influencer culture, caste, political corruption, and the rising manosphere building to a checkmate you won’t see coming.
Meena Kandasamy will be in discussion about this novel and her other writings with Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Literature and Director, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea University.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010) . Among her fiction is The Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, Exquisite Cadavers, and her latest Fieldwork as a Sex Object. She is the recipient of Hermann Kesten Prize (2022) by PEN Centre Germany, has represented India at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and has been a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. She edited the bi-monthly The Dalit for a while.
