Alex Padamsee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1302457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Padamsee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Padamsee |
| SIGNATURE | PADAMSEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0732-3796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postnational Aesthetics and the Work of Mourning in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
One of the first novels written in English by an Indian Muslim, Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) has in many ways suffered the fate of extinction it seems to describe. Critical interpretations have confined it to a purely nostalgic portrait of a moribund Indo-Muslim society, unproblematically situated within a European realist aesthetic. In contrast, I argue Ali’s original location as an Urdu writer and the narrative’s sustained engagement wi…
Uncertain Partitions
Identification and Disavowal in Colonial Representations
To insist upon this ‘coupling’ of ‘Mohammedan’ to ‘Anglo-Indian’ is unexceptional in the context of the theories of colonial discourse analysis inaugurated by Edward Said’s Orientalism. But it is necessary to go further than merely confirming the ‘production’ of Eastern subjects for a Western Metropolitan audience as a process of identity-formation dependent on a discourse of ‘Otherness’1 (available here, for instance, in a reading of ‘Mahommedan…
Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse
This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through revisionary readings of a wide range of texts, it re-examines the basis of the British misperception of Muslim 'conspiracy' during the 'Mutiny'. Arguing that this belief stemmed from conflicts inherent to the secular ideology of the colonial state, it shows how in the ensuing years it produced r…
Creative writing
Postnational Aesthetics and the Work of Mourning in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
One of the first novels written in English by an Indian Muslim, Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) has in many ways suffered the fate of extinction it seems to describe. Critical interpretations have confined it to a purely nostalgic portrait of a moribund Indo-Muslim society, unproblematically situated within a European realist aesthetic. In contrast, I argue Ali’s original location as an Urdu writer and the narrative’s sustained engagement wi…
Creative writing
Identification and Disavowal in Colonial Representations
To insist upon this ‘coupling’ of ‘Mohammedan’ to ‘Anglo-Indian’ is unexceptional in the context of the theories of colonial discourse analysis inaugurated by Edward Said’s Orientalism. But it is necessary to go further than merely confirming the ‘production’ of Eastern subjects for a Western Metropolitan audience as a process of identity-formation dependent on a discourse of ‘Otherness’1 (available here, for instance, in a reading of ‘Mahommedan…
Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse
This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through revisionary readings of a wide range of texts, it re-examines the basis of the British misperception of Muslim 'conspiracy' during the 'Mutiny'. Arguing that this belief stemmed from conflicts inherent to the secular ideology of the colonial state, it shows how in the ensuing years it produced r…
Uncertain Partitions
Postnational Aesthetics and the Work of Mourning in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
One of the first novels written in English by an Indian Muslim, Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) has in many ways suffered the fate of extinction it seems to describe. Critical interpretations have confined it to a purely nostalgic portrait of a moribund Indo-Muslim society, unproblematically situated within a European realist aesthetic. In contrast, I argue Ali’s original location as an Urdu writer and the narrative’s sustained engagement wi…
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