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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 May 31, 2023

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics

J. Daniel Elam

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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial …
Literary Studies May 10, 2023

Debt, Law, Realism

Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence

Neil Ten Kortenaar

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In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of …
Education March 4, 2023

Writing the Classroom

Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres

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 establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to …
Literary Studies 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 new materialist and decolonial rhetorics to advance a …
Indian Ocean World February 7, 2023

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890

Philip Gooding

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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 Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship …
Literary Studies January 6, 2023

Heterotopic World Fiction

Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps

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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: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic …
Indian Ocean World December 6, 2022

Kala Pani Crossings

Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective

Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak

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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 fighters. In the diaspora …
Literary Studies November 30, 2022

Literature and the Environment

Critical and Primary Sources

Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry

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Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and …
Sociology 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, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a …
Literary Studies November 17, 2022

Violent Phenomena

21 Essays on Translation

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 kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what …
Literary Studies November 14, 2022

World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India

Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890

Kedar Arun Kulkarni

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In 1818, the East India Company defeated the Maratha confederacy, acquiring vast domains in central and western India. Through coercion if not outright violence, the Company transformed many aspects of …
Literary Studies November 14, 2022

Entanglements

Envisioning World Literature from the Global South

Andrea Scheurer, Maren Schulze-Engler, Frank Wegner, and Jarula M. I. Gremels

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Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of …
Literary Studies 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 climate emergency can …
Literary Studies October 14, 2022

Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony

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 utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial …
Literary Studies October 7, 2022

The Disposition of Nature

Environmental Crisis and World Literature

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, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal …
Literary Studies October 5, 2022

V. S. Naipaul's Journeys

From Periphery to Center

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 most acclaimed authors …
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 …