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About Gargi Binju

Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.

NBN Episodes hosted by Gargi:

South Asian Studies September 26, 2022

India After World History

Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization

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 writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of …
Critical Theory September 6, 2022

Temporal Politics

Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures

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 and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today …
Literary Studies 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 geological epoch, defined and marked by the …
Literary Studies 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,' South Asian literature has …
Literary Studies 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 UP, 2022) shows how those author-Gods most associated with …
Literary Studies August 3, 2022

The Obsolete Empire

Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature

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 left behind an abundance of material relics and an …
Literary Studies 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 Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2021) draws on original archival research to shed …
Literary Studies June 24, 2022

Eternalized Fragments

Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction

W. Michelle Wang

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Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2020) explores the implications of treating literature as art--examining the evolving nature of aesthetic inquiry in literary studies, with …
Indian Ocean World May 25, 2022

Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy

Juan-José Martín-González

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Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) studies Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José …
Literature May 19, 2022

Tomb of Sand

Translated by Daisy Rockwell

Geetanjali Shree

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Today I talked to Daisy Rockwell, translator of Geetanjali Shree's novel Tomb of Sand (Tilted Axis Press, 2021) An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband …
Literary Studies April 29, 2022

Underdevelopment and African Literature

Emerging Forms of Reading

Sarah Brouillette

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In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tackles the print culture and literature in English in South and East Africa. Starting from the period of the …