Purnima Bose

Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement

This article traces the biographies of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and Somerset Maugham to map a global network of Indian nationalist resistance to the British Empire. Maugham and Smedley fictionalized their experiences with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Ghadar Party, respectively. I analyse the representation of Chattopadhyaya in Smedleys autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth and Somerset Maughams short story ‘Giulia Lazzari’ to consider the limitations of fiction in the production of historical knowledge of the Indian nationalist movement abroad.

Life Writing and Corporate Personhood

This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of personhood in various environmental and animal rights campaigns