Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 126587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Upamanyu Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEE U P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Fossil: Energy Humanities 2.0
Being Fossil: Energy Humanities 2.0
“Yet Was It Human?” Bankim, Hunter and the Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath
This essay reads W. W. Hunter’s The Annals of Rural Bengal (1868) and Bankimchandra Chatterji’s Anandamath (1881–82) to consider the importance of famine in Victorian imaginings of empire. Along with disaster events such as floods and contagious diseases, endemic famine provided a spectacular instance of the historicity of nature and the naturalization of history over the lifetime of modern British imperialism. The essay investigates how crucial …
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience
Every serious discussion of realism today is compelled to revisit the famous debates between Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernst Bloch conducted under the darkness of a Nazi noon.1 No matter wh
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about dis
From the Ruins of Empire: The revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia
The River and the Dance: Arundhati Roy
I want to begin our discussion of specific examples of the cultures of postcolonial environments by looking at an Indian writer who by virtue of her highly visible political activism has become closely identified as one of the faces of what Guha and his colleagues have called the ‘environmentalism of the poor’. I want to suggest, contrary to what a lot of literary critics have suggested, that it is a firmly held conviction of the inseparability o…
Dead Air: Indra Sinha
The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 has been called the world’s worst industrial disaster. The release of a deadly cocktail of toxic gases, mainly composed of methyl isocyanite (MIC), from the pesticide factory owned by the giant multinational company Union Carbide, affected an estimated 200,000 people out of the 900,000 who lived in this rapidly-expanding central Indian city. Between 5000 and 10,000 people were killed almost immediately, with a furth…
‘Green Postcolonialism’ and ‘Postcolonial Green’
In an article written in 2004 on the increasing traffic between eco-critical and postcolonial literary studies, Graham Huggan noted that the ‘green’ turn in postcolonialism was in effect a sign of the scholars’ admission that it was impossible to analyse modern imperialism and colonialism without engaging with the massive scale of environmental devastation that they entail (2004, p. 702). This, of course, was another way of say- ing that all colo…
From Earth Day to Earth Summits: Trajectories and Debates
In 1961, the Sierra Club, an increasingly influential organization advocating conservation of the north American wilderness and its wildlife, published a lavishly produced volume, aptly called Wilderness . The book opened with a series of sumptuous black-and-white photographs of canyons, deserts and woodlands by Philip Hyder — complete with text in large font urging the reader, presumed to be worn out by civilization, to seek out and commune with…
Water/Land: Amitav Ghosh
On the southern tip of West Bengal in eastern India, just south of Calcutta, the great river Ganges fans out into many tributaries over a vast delta before ending a journey that began in the distant Himalayan north with a plunge into the Bay of Bengal. The mouth of this delta is made up of about three hundred small islands, spread over an area of about ten thousand square kilometres and straddling India’s border with Bangladesh. It is one of thos…
Towards Eco-Materialism
A few things emerge from our discussion so far. First, there is a palpable synergy between literary and cultural eco-critical and postcolonial studies, both of which have absorbed the global debate about the environment from the 1960s onward; second, one of the signature remits of these two approaches is to show how the environment (understood in its properly expansive sense of being always interpenetrated with history) and cultural forms shape a…
‘Blood on my Water’: Ruchir Joshi
In our consideration of the contemporary Indian novel in English, we have thus far based our readings on two basic propositions: that the material environment of unevenly developed postcolonial India forms a necessary horizon for these artistic registers; and that these realities find themselves embedded in both the form and content of the novels. If uneven historical development (shaped by colonialism and neo- or postcolonialism) is registered i…
Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an origin
Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime
In this work, Mukherjee examines a wide range of 19th-century British fictions about crime in India - from writers such as Wilkie Collins, Walter Scott, and Conan Doyle to historical parliamentary, and medical narratives
Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an origin
Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime
In this work, Mukherjee examines a wide range of 19th-century British fictions about crime in India - from writers such as Wilkie Collins, Walter Scott, and Conan Doyle to historical parliamentary, and medical narratives
The River and the Dance: Arundhati Roy
I want to begin our discussion of specific examples of the cultures of postcolonial environments by looking at an Indian writer who by virtue of her highly visible political activism has become closely identified as one of the faces of what Guha and his colleagues have called the ‘environmentalism of the poor’. I want to suggest, contrary to what a lot of literary critics have suggested, that it is a firmly held conviction of the inseparability o…
Dead Air: Indra Sinha
The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 has been called the world’s worst industrial disaster. The release of a deadly cocktail of toxic gases, mainly composed of methyl isocyanite (MIC), from the pesticide factory owned by the giant multinational company Union Carbide, affected an estimated 200,000 people out of the 900,000 who lived in this rapidly-expanding central Indian city. Between 5000 and 10,000 people were killed almost immediately, with a furth…
‘Green Postcolonialism’ and ‘Postcolonial Green’
In an article written in 2004 on the increasing traffic between eco-critical and postcolonial literary studies, Graham Huggan noted that the ‘green’ turn in postcolonialism was in effect a sign of the scholars’ admission that it was impossible to analyse modern imperialism and colonialism without engaging with the massive scale of environmental devastation that they entail (2004, p. 702). This, of course, was another way of say- ing that all colo…
From Earth Day to Earth Summits: Trajectories and Debates
In 1961, the Sierra Club, an increasingly influential organization advocating conservation of the north American wilderness and its wildlife, published a lavishly produced volume, aptly called Wilderness . The book opened with a series of sumptuous black-and-white photographs of canyons, deserts and woodlands by Philip Hyder — complete with text in large font urging the reader, presumed to be worn out by civilization, to seek out and commune with…
Water/Land: Amitav Ghosh
On the southern tip of West Bengal in eastern India, just south of Calcutta, the great river Ganges fans out into many tributaries over a vast delta before ending a journey that began in the distant Himalayan north with a plunge into the Bay of Bengal. The mouth of this delta is made up of about three hundred small islands, spread over an area of about ten thousand square kilometres and straddling India’s border with Bangladesh. It is one of thos…
Towards Eco-Materialism
A few things emerge from our discussion so far. First, there is a palpable synergy between literary and cultural eco-critical and postcolonial studies, both of which have absorbed the global debate about the environment from the 1960s onward; second, one of the signature remits of these two approaches is to show how the environment (understood in its properly expansive sense of being always interpenetrated with history) and cultural forms shape a…
‘Blood on my Water’: Ruchir Joshi
In our consideration of the contemporary Indian novel in English, we have thus far based our readings on two basic propositions: that the material environment of unevenly developed postcolonial India forms a necessary horizon for these artistic registers; and that these realities find themselves embedded in both the form and content of the novels. If uneven historical development (shaped by colonialism and neo- or postcolonialism) is registered i…
Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an origin
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about dis
From the Ruins of Empire: The revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience
Every serious discussion of realism today is compelled to revisit the famous debates between Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernst Bloch conducted under the darkness of a Nazi noon.1 No matter wh
“Yet Was It Human?” Bankim, Hunter and the Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath
This essay reads W. W. Hunter’s The Annals of Rural Bengal (1868) and Bankimchandra Chatterji’s Anandamath (1881–82) to consider the importance of famine in Victorian imaginings of empire. Along with disaster events such as floods and contagious diseases, endemic famine provided a spectacular instance of the historicity of nature and the naturalization of history over the lifetime of modern British imperialism. The essay investigates how crucial …
Being Fossil: Energy Humanities 2.0
Being Fossil: Energy Humanities 2.0
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