Amardeep Singh

Postcolonial/Global literature and film, Modernism, African American literature, and the Digital Humanities.

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Mimicry and Hybridity in Plain English (Updated and Expanded)

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This essay is a sequel of sorts to an earlier blog post essay I wrote a few years ago, introducing Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism fo...

Revisiting the Calcutta Writers Workshop

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I remember finding volumes printed by the Calcutta Writers Workshop while browsing the library as a young graduate student, but at the time ...

Untrendy Topics: Modern Hindi Poetry

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I've been doing some research on Indian writers from the 1930s-1960s for a long-term scholarly project, and in the process I've been...

A Book with "@" in the Title

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There's a profile in the New York Times of Chetan Bhagat (thanks, Pocobrat ), author of One Night @ The Call Center , which was release...

Suriname's Linguistic Khichri

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The New York Times has an article on Sranan Tongo , the creole language that is spoken by a majority of people in Suriname , in South Ameri...

Subcontinental Scripts: Hindi vs. Urdu

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As I mentioned earlier in the week, I recently taught myself how to read the Urdu script, and it was quite challenging. Reading from right t...
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