Kritish Rajbhandari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kritish Rajbhandari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kritish |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajbhandari |
| SIGNATURE | RAJBHANDARI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9157-4493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction
The Indian Ocean has long connected people, objects, and ideas across continents and cultures. This book asks how contemporary writers reimagine the Indian Ocean through literary figurations of the past. In doing so, it offers an oceanic perspective for rethinking the paradigms of postcolonialism by way of rich historical context and intertextual readings of Afro-Asian fiction. Drawing on historiographical research, archival theory, and literary …
Briny South
The Home and the World
This article attends to the legacies of Indian Ocean migrations in the construction of women as integral to the territorial sense of Indian nationhood. Specifically, it examines Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s novel Indian Tango (2007), which rewrites Satyajit Ray’s cinematic adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare-Baire (1916) from a transnational queer feminist perspective. Tracing the novel’s historical intertexts in Indian nationalist and an…
Beyond the Ethics of Nationalism and Betrayal
Character-based criticisms of A Grain of Wheat (1967) have often focused on Ngũgĩ's privileging of individual subjectivity and alienation, but little attention has been paid to the fact that some of the pivotal characters of the novel embody the condition of subalternity of Kikuyu peasants at the bottom of a socioeconomic and gendered power system in a colonial society. Putting the novel in the historical context of the polarized field of represe…
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Beyond the Ethics of Nationalism and Betrayal
Character-based criticisms of A Grain of Wheat (1967) have often focused on Ngũgĩ's privileging of individual subjectivity and alienation, but little attention has been paid to the fact that some of the pivotal characters of the novel embody the condition of subalternity of Kikuyu peasants at the bottom of a socioeconomic and gendered power system in a colonial society. Putting the novel in the historical context of the polarized field of represe…
The Home and the World
This article attends to the legacies of Indian Ocean migrations in the construction of women as integral to the territorial sense of Indian nationhood. Specifically, it examines Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s novel Indian Tango (2007), which rewrites Satyajit Ray’s cinematic adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare-Baire (1916) from a transnational queer feminist perspective. Tracing the novel’s historical intertexts in Indian nationalist and an…
Briny South
The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction
The Indian Ocean has long connected people, objects, and ideas across continents and cultures. This book asks how contemporary writers reimagine the Indian Ocean through literary figurations of the past. In doing so, it offers an oceanic perspective for rethinking the paradigms of postcolonialism by way of rich historical context and intertextual readings of Afro-Asian fiction. Drawing on historiographical research, archival theory, and literary …
Politics (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indian ocean (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)