Supriya M Nair
Biographic Data
| ID | 134042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Supriya M Nair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Supriya M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nair |
| SIGNATURE | NAIR S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan Department of English Ann Arbor MI U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nature’s Wild
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean
This essay discusses Belinda Edmondson's Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). The author shows how Edmondson challenges Standard English dismissals of anglophone Caribbean vernaculars as an inferior form of English and reorients the historical legacy of Anglo-Creoles by pushing against the assumption that these Creoles are a lingua franca restricted to Black folk cultures in the Caribbean. Beginning with Europe…
Rehearsing the Past
The essay begins by discussing the debatable relationship between narratives of Black Atlantic chattel slavery and discourses of contemporary slavery in a global context. While some scholars are wary about conflating two different historical experiences, others see a useful link between past slavery and current trafficking. Uwem Akpan’s story “Fattening for Gabon” invokes the earlier trajectory of chattel slavery to the Americas but insists on a …
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Femme Migritude
This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which …
Mobility in the City
In his novels Cockroach and Carnival, Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrant…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement
Research Article| May 01 2020 What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement Shailja Patel Shailja Patel Shailja Patel is author of Migritude (2010). She received the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award for “On Postcolonial Theory” and was 2019 keynote speaker for the “Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue” at Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2019–20 research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachu…
Activist by Default
This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer”…
Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor)
The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize “extracontinental” francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani, or nineteenth-century India…
Migritude’s Progress
Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arriv…
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
Response to Smith and Pirbhai
Ariel's Ecology
The cover of Monique Allewaert's Ariel's Ecology presents a striking photograph of one underwater sculpture from Jason deCaires Taylor's provocative exhibit “Vicissitudes”. Although the book does n
A Poetics of Relations
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Books
Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class. By Belinda Edmondson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 223. ISBN 9780801448140. $45 (hbk). Belinda Edmondson's Caribbean Middl
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Books
Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class. By Belinda Edmondson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 223. ISBN 9780801448140. $45 (hbk). Belinda Edmondson's Caribbean Middl
A Poetics of Relations
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Response to Smith and Pirbhai
Ariel's Ecology
The cover of Monique Allewaert's Ariel's Ecology presents a striking photograph of one underwater sculpture from Jason deCaires Taylor's provocative exhibit “Vicissitudes”. Although the book does n
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Femme Migritude
This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which …
Mobility in the City
In his novels Cockroach and Carnival, Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrant…
What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement
Research Article| May 01 2020 What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement Shailja Patel Shailja Patel Shailja Patel is author of Migritude (2010). She received the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award for “On Postcolonial Theory” and was 2019 keynote speaker for the “Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue” at Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2019–20 research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachu…
Activist by Default
This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer”…
Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor)
The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize “extracontinental” francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani, or nineteenth-century India…
Migritude’s Progress
Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arriv…
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
Rehearsing the Past
The essay begins by discussing the debatable relationship between narratives of Black Atlantic chattel slavery and discourses of contemporary slavery in a global context. While some scholars are wary about conflating two different historical experiences, others see a useful link between past slavery and current trafficking. Uwem Akpan’s story “Fattening for Gabon” invokes the earlier trajectory of chattel slavery to the Americas but insists on a …
Nature’s Wild
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean
This essay discusses Belinda Edmondson's Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). The author shows how Edmondson challenges Standard English dismissals of anglophone Caribbean vernaculars as an inferior form of English and reorients the historical legacy of Anglo-Creoles by pushing against the assumption that these Creoles are a lingua franca restricted to Black folk cultures in the Caribbean. Beginning with Europe…
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