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3 reviews
Amitava Kumar

Routledge, 2002

Being Amitava Malkovich
What we get with this book is a sure-footed survey of indian writing in English that feels like a grand tour by a docent who also happens to be your close friend. Amitava Kumar is an emerging literary voice from the indian subcontinent. The intimate prose evokes feelings of alienation and displacement that serve as a recurrent theme in a manner common to many expatriate authors but what is ...

Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom

Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

On the contested terrain of cultural studies, the debate has often focused on the blurring of the line between the poetic and the political. The future of the academic profession, the move toward a return to "literary readings," and the function/usefulness of art and poetry today are all tied up in this issue. The real need, however, is to complicate the argument between the two, and this volume addresses that need by using the classroom as the ...

Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

6 reviews
Amitava Kumar

New Press, The, 2005

Read this book.
This is one of my favorite books. Though I have looked far and wide, this is the only book that I have found that begins to explore the complexity of the causes of the ethnic violence that plagues nearly every corner of the modern world. It offers no answers or definitive explanations because, so far, no one has found any. Instead, it presents an impressive array of examples and evidence of ...

Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate

Routledge, 2003

For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others. Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning ...

Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere

NYU Press, 1997

The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and at times its very right to educate. As the dust begins to settle, the contributors to this volume weigh in with a constructive and wide-ranging statement on the progressive possibilities of teaching. This is, in many ways, a book for the morning after the PC Wars, when the shouting dies down and the ...

Passport Photos

8 reviews
Amitava Kumar

University of California Press, 2000

Good performance
I am a South Asian journalist living in New Jersey. Very little has been said about Amitava Kumar's photographs. They present different facets of our world. What is striking is that he frames the photographs, and one could argue, our world, in new and critical ways. The South Asian Journalists Association organized a reading by Kumar at the Brecht Forum. I enjoyed the reading immensely, and when ...