About Gargi Binju

Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.

NBN Episodes hosted by Gargi:

Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)

February 3, 2024

Thought's Wilderness

Greg Ellermann
Hosted by Gargi Binju

While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature (Stan…

J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)

May 31, 2023

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

J. Daniel Elam
Hosted by Gargi Binju
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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial…

Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)

May 10, 2023

Debt, Law, Realism

Neil Ten Kortenaar
Hosted by Gargi Binju

In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, wi…

Stephen E. Neaderhiser, "Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres" (Utah State UP, 2022)

March 4, 2023

Writing the Classroom

Stephen E. Neaderhiser
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Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to…

Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics"  (Ohio State UP, 2022)

February 11, 2023

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant
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Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2022) brings together emerging and established voices at the nexus of…

Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

February 7, 2023

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

Philip Gooding
Hosted by Gargi Binju

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of L…

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

January 6, 2023

Heterotopic World Fiction

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps
Hosted by Gargi Binju

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction:…

Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak, "Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective" (Routledge, 2021)

December 6, 2022

Kala Pani Crossings

Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak
Hosted by Gargi Binju

When used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fight…

Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

November 30, 2022

Literature and the Environment

Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry
Hosted by Gargi Binju

Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2021) is…

Ipek Demir, "Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation" (Manchester UP, 2022)

November 29, 2022

Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation

Ipek Demir
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Ipek Demir's book Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation (Manchester UP, 2022) engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, ar…

Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)

November 17, 2022

Violent Phenomena

Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang
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Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in …

Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)

November 14, 2022

Entanglements

Andrea Scheurer, Maren Schulze-Engler, Frank Wegner, and Jarula M. I. Gremels
Hosted by Gargi Binju

Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporar…

Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)

November 14, 2022

Entanglements

Andrea Scheurer, Maren Schulze-Engler, Frank Wegner, and Jarula M. I. Gremels
Hosted by Gargi Binju

Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporar…

Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)

November 10, 2022

Literature for a Changing Planet

Martin Puchner
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Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. Reading literature in a time of …

Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)

October 14, 2022

Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

Sandeep Banerjee
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Sandeep Banerjee's book Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2021) illuminates the spatial …

Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)

October 7, 2022

The Disposition of Nature

Jennifer Wenzel
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How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennif…

Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)

October 5, 2022

V. S. Naipaul's Journeys

Sanjay Krishnan
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The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the mo…

Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)

September 26, 2022

India After World History

Neilesh Bose
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In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writ…

Adrian Little, "Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

September 6, 2022

Temporal Politics

Adrian Little
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In Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures (Edinburgh UP, 2022), Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present a…

Erin James, "Narrative in the Anthropocene"  (Ohio State UP, 2022)

September 5, 2022

Narrative in the Anthropocene

Erin James
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In Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State UP, 2022), Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current ge…

Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

August 18, 2022

South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Roanne Kantor
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Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India…

Alice M. Kelly, "Decolonising the Conrad Canon" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

August 8, 2022

Decolonising the Conrad Canon

Alice M. Kelly
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With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon (Liverpool …

Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

August 3, 2022

The Obsolete Empire

Philip Tsang
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Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire …

Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

July 6, 2022

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

Leila Neti
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Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imaginati…