Tabish Khair
Biographic Data
| ID | 125768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tabish Khair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tabish |
| FAMILY NAME | Khair |
| SIGNATURE | KHAIR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Partition — 75 Years On
Unfinished stories of the Partition: Across 75 years
This conversation between two second cousins born and brought up on different sides of the India/Pakistan border and now, as academics and writers, engaged in examining the Partition, looks at what the tumultuous and tragic events of 1947 have meant for families most obviously impacted by them, and how their impact has unfolded over the past 75 years. Educated, Muslim, Urdu-speaking middle-class families ( ashráf) from North India were sundered b…
Muslim Migrants and the Global South
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Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India
Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 432–433
The New Xenophobia
Xenophobia, the fear or dislike of strangers, has been seen throughout the course of recorded history in the form of communal riots, racist attacks, religious hatred, and various kinds of genocide. Hindu–Muslim riots in India, Sinhalese–Tamil tensions in Sri Lanka, the persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Europe, ethnic cleansing in places like the former Yugoslavia, purging of Shias and Sunnis in Iraq and Syria, skinheads attacking immigrants, and t…
Abdus Samad in Conversation
India 2015: Magic, Modi, and Arundhati Roy
This article looks at the debate about Dr B. R. Ambedkar and (Mahatma) M. K. Gandhi, as launched in a recent essay by Arundhati Roy, in the light of the rise of the Hindu rightist/revivalist party, BJP, under the current Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi
Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps
The Literatures of Metropolitan Capital
For its colonial masters in the early twentieth century and for nationalists of all ilk (inspired partly by M K Gandhi's conception of India as a land of ‘700,000 villages’), it was the ‘village’ t
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11
Udgivelsesdato: March
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
En mangfoldighed af spejle: Europa og modernitet i rejselitteratur fra Asien og Afrika
This paper explores some ways of understanding ‘Europe’ through a reading of selected travel texts written by non-Europeans. In particular, I focus on three texts written by Indians who travelled to Europe and England between 1750 and 1900, though there are also references to other travel accounts. The main argument of this paper is that such accounts complicate any given definition of ‘Europe’ as well as the values and assumptions of certain usa…
"Beyond "Whereverness: A Conversation with Tabish Khair
abish Khair is a poet, novelist, scholar, and coeditor of the travel-writing anthol JL ogy Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. His latest novel, Filming: A Love Story, was released in paperback last year, and his Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels is an important second ary text on Indian fiction. Khair has won the All India Poetry Prize, been shortlisted* for the Encore Award (uk) and the Cr…
Indian Pulp Fiction in English: A Preliminary Overview from Dutt to Dé
This article provides an overview of the long history of Indian pulp fiction in English, offering a tentative definition of the genre by identifying both qualitative and quantitative markers. Beginning with nineteenth-century romances, such as Toru Dutt's Bianca, K. K. Lahiri's Roshinara and K. Chakravarti's Sarata and Hingana, it moves forward to a consideration of twentieth-century pulp forms, including detective fiction, science fiction and fa…
Aarhus Diary: Screams, Murmurs, Silences
The Death of the Reader
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a novel that a young writer can only admire, a double decker of a narrative powered by real talent. It is also a novel that appears to make careful use of ‘history’. An
Let Me In-let Me In: Why Does Terror Come From Elsewhere
With reference to Gothic literature, fiction influenced by the Gothic genre (in particular Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights) and recent acts of “terrorism”, this paper examines and complicates the perception of terror as something creeping in from “elsewhere” or, implicitly, something attacking the heart of “European civilizations” from post/colonial areas of disturbance and barbarity. It argues that a fuller understanding of the nature of terror…
Poems: Shakuntala in the Backwoods; Shakuntala Seeks Butterflies; Shakuntala At Customs; Lorca In New York; Peepul; Monsters; The Names of Insects; The Snow was Falling in the Cane Fields; Falling
Correct(ing) Images from the Inside”: Reading the Limits of Erna Brodber’s Myal
Godly Nations
Modernism and modernity: The patented fragments
Poem: Stone
Debate
The Ideology of Play
Taking up John Roberts’s account of the new Danish cinema, Tabish Khair argues that Von Trier’s films share with Benigni’s prize-puller rotations between the playful and the real, stock tropes of the postmodern
Why postcolonialism hates revolutions
Postcolonialism, Theory
Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India
Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 432–433
Indian Pulp Fiction in English: A Preliminary Overview from Dutt to Dé
This article provides an overview of the long history of Indian pulp fiction in English, offering a tentative definition of the genre by identifying both qualitative and quantitative markers. Beginning with nineteenth-century romances, such as Toru Dutt's Bianca, K. K. Lahiri's Roshinara and K. Chakravarti's Sarata and Hingana, it moves forward to a consideration of twentieth-century pulp forms, including detective fiction, science fiction and fa…
Introduction: Partition — 75 Years On
Unfinished stories of the Partition: Across 75 years
This conversation between two second cousins born and brought up on different sides of the India/Pakistan border and now, as academics and writers, engaged in examining the Partition, looks at what the tumultuous and tragic events of 1947 have meant for families most obviously impacted by them, and how their impact has unfolded over the past 75 years. Educated, Muslim, Urdu-speaking middle-class families ( ashráf) from North India were sundered b…
India 2015: Magic, Modi, and Arundhati Roy
This article looks at the debate about Dr B. R. Ambedkar and (Mahatma) M. K. Gandhi, as launched in a recent essay by Arundhati Roy, in the light of the rise of the Hindu rightist/revivalist party, BJP, under the current Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi
Modernism and modernity: The patented fragments
Poems
Three poems: The immigrant Maometto* To Dante; Pomegranate (Anàr); Krishna
Raja Rao and Alien Universality
Why postcolonialism hates revolutions
Postcolonialism, Theory
Debate
The Ideology of Play
Taking up John Roberts’s account of the new Danish cinema, Tabish Khair argues that Von Trier’s films share with Benigni’s prize-puller rotations between the playful and the real, stock tropes of the postmodern
Godly Nations
Modernism and modernity: The patented fragments
Poem: Stone
Correct(ing) Images from the Inside”: Reading the Limits of Erna Brodber’s Myal
Poems: Shakuntala in the Backwoods; Shakuntala Seeks Butterflies; Shakuntala At Customs; Lorca In New York; Peepul; Monsters; The Names of Insects; The Snow was Falling in the Cane Fields; Falling
Aarhus Diary: Screams, Murmurs, Silences
The Death of the Reader
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a novel that a young writer can only admire, a double decker of a narrative powered by real talent. It is also a novel that appears to make careful use of ‘history’. An
Let Me In-let Me In: Why Does Terror Come From Elsewhere
With reference to Gothic literature, fiction influenced by the Gothic genre (in particular Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights) and recent acts of “terrorism”, this paper examines and complicates the perception of terror as something creeping in from “elsewhere” or, implicitly, something attacking the heart of “European civilizations” from post/colonial areas of disturbance and barbarity. It argues that a fuller understanding of the nature of terror…
Indian Pulp Fiction in English: A Preliminary Overview from Dutt to Dé
This article provides an overview of the long history of Indian pulp fiction in English, offering a tentative definition of the genre by identifying both qualitative and quantitative markers. Beginning with nineteenth-century romances, such as Toru Dutt's Bianca, K. K. Lahiri's Roshinara and K. Chakravarti's Sarata and Hingana, it moves forward to a consideration of twentieth-century pulp forms, including detective fiction, science fiction and fa…
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
En mangfoldighed af spejle: Europa og modernitet i rejselitteratur fra Asien og Afrika
This paper explores some ways of understanding ‘Europe’ through a reading of selected travel texts written by non-Europeans. In particular, I focus on three texts written by Indians who travelled to Europe and England between 1750 and 1900, though there are also references to other travel accounts. The main argument of this paper is that such accounts complicate any given definition of ‘Europe’ as well as the values and assumptions of certain usa…
"Beyond "Whereverness: A Conversation with Tabish Khair
abish Khair is a poet, novelist, scholar, and coeditor of the travel-writing anthol JL ogy Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. His latest novel, Filming: A Love Story, was released in paperback last year, and his Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels is an important second ary text on Indian fiction. Khair has won the All India Poetry Prize, been shortlisted* for the Encore Award (uk) and the Cr…
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11
Udgivelsesdato: March
The Literatures of Metropolitan Capital
For its colonial masters in the early twentieth century and for nationalists of all ilk (inspired partly by M K Gandhi's conception of India as a land of ‘700,000 villages’), it was the ‘village’ t
Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps
Abdus Samad in Conversation
India 2015: Magic, Modi, and Arundhati Roy
This article looks at the debate about Dr B. R. Ambedkar and (Mahatma) M. K. Gandhi, as launched in a recent essay by Arundhati Roy, in the light of the rise of the Hindu rightist/revivalist party, BJP, under the current Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi
The New Xenophobia
Xenophobia, the fear or dislike of strangers, has been seen throughout the course of recorded history in the form of communal riots, racist attacks, religious hatred, and various kinds of genocide. Hindu–Muslim riots in India, Sinhalese–Tamil tensions in Sri Lanka, the persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Europe, ethnic cleansing in places like the former Yugoslavia, purging of Shias and Sunnis in Iraq and Syria, skinheads attacking immigrants, and t…
Muslim Migrants and the Global South
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
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