Showing posts with label IndianLiterature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IndianLiterature. Show all posts

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...

Spring Teaching Notes: Asian American Literature

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This spring I taught an introductory Asian American Literature class for the first time (the proper title for the course was "Asian Am...

Notes on MLA 2013

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has already put up some stories about MLA 2013, including this article covering the growing attention payed to ...

Das Racist Splits up

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So: Das Racist has split up . I have mixed feelings about it. As an Indian American kid raised on hip hop in the 1980s and 90s, I was for...

Me on Manto: Interview in "Viewpoint"

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Qaisar Abbas of UNT interviewed me on Sa'adat Hasan Manto by email for a magazine he writes for called "Viewpoint." You can se...

On "The Essential Tagore"

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Just a quick note to say Happy New Year, and announce that I have a medium-length essay reviewing the new Harvard UP anthology of Tagore, Th...

A Few Scattered Notes after Visiting Trinidad

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Our visit to Trinidad coincided (purely by chance) with the national T&T holiday known as Indian Arrival Day, as well as a 20/20 Cricket...

Revisiting Ahmed Ali: Twilight in Delhi (1940)

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[Note to friends: I'm doing a version of this as a talk a couple of different times in the next few weeks. Any feedback, corrections, o...

In Defense of India's Literary Culture (Dalrymple, Bal, Jaipur, etc.)

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There's an interesting -- though rather awkward -- debate up right now at Open Magazine, between William Dalrymple and Hartosh Singh Bal...

Another look at P. Lal -- With a Focus on the Poetry

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A few weeks ago I did a post on the Calcutta Writers' Workshop . Just about two weeks later, P. Lal, the founder of the Writers Workshop...

A Brief Note About Jainendra Kumar's "The Resignation"

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I came across Jainendra Kumar's The Resignation ( Tyaga-Patra ; 1937) as I was combing through the library looking for work associated w...

Mulk Raj Anand: on the Language Debate and his Aunt's Caste-related Suicide

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For a long time I resisted reading much of Mulk Raj Anand's work -- there simply seemed to be too much, and much of what I had looked at...

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 ...