Padmini Mongia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padmini Mongia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padmini |
| FAMILY NAME | Mongia |
| SIGNATURE | MONGIA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also…
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
Ella Shohat
The academic opposition to Gulf War mobilized a number of familiar terms imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism in a verbal counter-strike against New World Order. But conspicuously absent from discussion was term post-colonial, even from speeches made by its otherwise prominent advocates. Given extraordinary circulation of term in recent academic conferences, publications and curricular reformulations, this sudden invisibility was somewha…
Speaking American
A number of new popular writers have emerged in the last decade in India, of whom Chetan Bhagat is probably the best known, but there are many others who sell in unprecedented numbers. Appealing to that vast segment of readers for whom English may be a second language (unlike the literary successes of the last decades, who wrote for a global and local audience), this group of writers has their gaze and concerns focused on India. Yet, the new genr…
Sister Hyacinth
Mongia on McLeod
Reviewed by: Beginning Postcolonialism Padmini Mongia John McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) The third volume in Manchester University Press’s promising new Beginnings series, Beginning Postcolonialism, admirably achieves the goals laid out by the editors of the series. One of these is that “each volume will focus uncompromisingly upon the needs of its readers, who have a right to expect lucidity an…
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Mongia on McLeod
Reviewed by: Beginning Postcolonialism Padmini Mongia John McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) The third volume in Manchester University Press’s promising new Beginnings series, Beginning Postcolonialism, admirably achieves the goals laid out by the editors of the series. One of these is that “each volume will focus uncompromisingly upon the needs of its readers, who have a right to expect lucidity an…
Sister Hyacinth
Speaking American
A number of new popular writers have emerged in the last decade in India, of whom Chetan Bhagat is probably the best known, but there are many others who sell in unprecedented numbers. Appealing to that vast segment of readers for whom English may be a second language (unlike the literary successes of the last decades, who wrote for a global and local audience), this group of writers has their gaze and concerns focused on India. Yet, the new genr…
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also…
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
Ella Shohat
The academic opposition to Gulf War mobilized a number of familiar terms imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism in a verbal counter-strike against New World Order. But conspicuously absent from discussion was term post-colonial, even from speeches made by its otherwise prominent advocates. Given extraordinary circulation of term in recent academic conferences, publications and curricular reformulations, this sudden invisibility was somewha…
Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works)