Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Mimicry and Hybridity in Plain English (Updated and Expanded)

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Update from April 2017: I added a new section called "Close Reading Bhabha's 'Signs Taken For Wonders.'" Also, for fol...

DHSI 2015 Notes 1: Pre-conference on "Social Knowledge Creation"

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I'm here in Victoria for week 2 of the DHSI ; I might try and post a few brief notes along the way for myself and any others who might ...

"The First Four" -- Women Faculty in the Lehigh English Department

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One of my students was involved with the making of a documentary about the first women faculty in the English department. I had a chance t...

Teaching Notes: Transatlantic Modernism

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This spring I taught a new graduate course at Lehigh on Transatlantic Modernism.  As a bit of back-story: Several Ph.D. students I have wo...

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...

"Ulysses": A Couple of Documents Related to the Obscenity Trials

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I am teaching "Ulysses" again this fall with undergraduates, roughly along the same lines that I described in a blog post I wrote ...

"Over and Over He Said 'Survive'": the Poetry of Khaled Mattawa in Light of Libya

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I was lucky, at Duke in the mid-1990s, to overlap for a few years with the Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, then enrolled in Duke...

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...

Why I don't like Mulk Raj Anand's "Untouchable" (and a few examples of novels dealing intelligently with caste)

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When asked to suggest a novel that describes the caste system in India, the first one that comes to mind for many people, especially outside...

Thoughts on Premchand's "Godaan"

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The first surprise in reading Premchand's 1936 masterpiece Godaan is just how different it is from the blurb describing it. Here, for i...

Five Types of Hybridity: Steve Yao in Wasafiri

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A little while ago I did a long post on the concept of 'hybridity' , hoping to provide a resource useful for people who teach on thi...

Translating from the Punjabi -- K.S. Duggal

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I have been looking at an obscure volume of Punjabi poetry published in 1962, as part of a project I'm doing on South Asian progressive ...

How to Gender a Hawk ("Shikkra"): a look at a Shiv Kumar Batalvi poem

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I came across a link to the Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi on YouTube earlier today, in the course of doing some research for an encycloped...

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...

Murakami, "The Big Sleep," Allusions to Proust

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As I have been teaching Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World this spring to undergraduates, I have been tr...

New and Forthcoming Publications

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I was happy to see that an essay I wrote for the journal Symploke recently became available via Project Muse: “Anonymity, Authorship, and Bl...

"I Wanna Be Like You": The Jungle Book, Revisited

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Being a parent gives you a chance to go back over the children's stories you grew up with and even, in some cases, learn about new ones....