Madhu Krishnan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 155118 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Madhu Krishnan |
| PRENOMES | Madhu |
| SOBRENOME | Krishnan |
| ASSINATURA | KRISHNAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Space and Literary Studies
Postcolonial Space
In this chapter, I explore the intersection of spatiality and postcolonial literary writing through a focus on African literatures, broadly speaking, and the practices of worlding therein. Both as a market category and as a subset of what is variously termed ’world literature’ or ’postcolonial literature’, African literary writing offers a rich case study of the ways in which literature functions not merely as a passive repository of space or sit…
Citizenship, Responsibility and Literary Culture in the University Periodical in Eastern Africa
This chapter examines the Kenyan literary periodical Busara [Wisdom in Kiswahili] (1967–75), which had its political and intellectual roots in the anti-colonial struggle, but which first appeared after independence. Busara played a central role in framing the literary and political discourses of the new nation. Drawing contributions from East Africa, the United States and Europe, and featuring contributions by well-known figures such as Ngũgĩ wa …
Thinking otherwise”
Un-imagining the University
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Black Lives Matter and the Contemporary African Novel
In June 2020, a group of more than one hundred African writers published a statement of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter uprisings that emerged around the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this statement are a number of claims around the extension of Black internationalism and solidarities and the uneven—and sometimes uneasy—interrelation between the violence of white supremacy as evidenced in the United States and the lar…
Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century
Depuis le début du troisième millénaire, l’essor de la « nouvelle littérature nigériane » a inspiré de nombreux numéros spéciaux, y compris dans des revues réputées comme English in Africa et Research in African Literatures , et a contribué à la célébrité d’auteurs tels qu’Adichie, Abani, Habila et Adebayo érigés au rang de représentants de cette nouvelle génération. Dans le même temps, les chercheurs se sont relativement peu intéressés aux conti…
Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century
Six Steps Toward Consecration
Research Article| May 01 2021 Six Steps Toward Consecration M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan originally hails from the coastal shores of Tamil Nadu, India. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and she currently lives and works in the Midwest. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (96): 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8851212 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…
Introduction
[No Abstract]
Creative Writing as Literary Activism
This paper explores the concept of literary activism by reflecting on a co-productive creative writing project run by the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and the Center for African Cultural Excellence (Uganda). It considers how the space of the creative writing workshop opens platforms for decolonial knowledge production
Small magazines in Africa
This special issue introduction maps the trajectories, histories, ecologies and genealogies of small magazine production and circulation in Africa, within the broader contexts of print cultural histories that frame intellectual, political and cultural communities in Africa and its diasporas in the long twentieth century. It argues for the ways in which the small magazine not only creates alternative audiences and publics, but frames the ecologies…
Materiality and Nature
[No abstract]
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
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Introduction
Introduction: Interrogating the Postnation in African Literary Writing: Localities and Globalities Madhu Krishnan In his introduction to The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Helon Habila puts forward the claim that the new generation of African writers might best be described as “post-nationalist,” suggesting that contemporary writers—often referred to as the “third generation” of African writing—might have “the best potential to liberate …
When is biography fiction? Life writing, epistemophilia, and the limits of genre in contemporary Kenyan writing
In On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe opens with the assertion that “[s]peaking rationally about Africa is not something that has ever come naturally”. In this article, I use Mbembe’s remarks as my starting point, using his observations around the place — or lack thereof — of “Africa” within a larger philosophical matrix predicated on Enlightenment-derived notions of knowledge, and applying it to three examples of auto/biographical life writing re…
From Empire to Independence
This article examines the production of space in four early Anglophone and Francophone West African novels, reading Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Nigeria, 1952), Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (Nigeria, 1954), Mongo Beti's Mission terminée (Cameroon, 1957), and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambiguë (Senegal, 1961) alongside broader social, political, and economic spatial discourses from the 1950s and 1960s. By so doing, the arti…
Introduction
Print Activism in Twenty-First-Century Africa
Introduction to special issue of Wasafiri magazine on contemporary African publishing
Affect, empathy, and engagement
This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining the ways in which each novel situates its staging of African conflict against the a priori image of Africa, the article focuses on the ways in which each novel demands a readerly engagement based on alterity. Rather than viewing the text as a passive repository of et…
Postcoloniality, spatiality and cosmopolitanism in theOpen City
This paper considers the performance of postcolonial spatiality in Teju Cole’s 2011 novel, Open City. Arguing against theoretical positions which view the production of postcolonial space as inherently liberatory, the article considers how, through its textual deconstruction of neoliberal visions of cosmopolitanism, Cole’s novel produces a reading of postcolonial spatiality as a continuation of the abstract formations of colonial space. The paper…
Contemporary African Literature in English
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender and Representing the Unrepresentable
Women’s identities in African literature form a particularly difficult facet of representation due, in large part, to the problem of articulating an intersectional identity in language. 1 As Kimberlé Crenshaw has aptly stated, ‘Because of their intersectional identity as both women and of color within discourses shaped to respond to one or the other, women of color are marginalized within both’. 2 African women, in other words, are identified as …
The storyteller function in contemporary Nigerian narrative
This paper considers the articulation of orality in contemporary Nigerian writing, focusing on Helon Habila’s Measuring Time (2007) and Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2008), asserting that, through the manipulation of collective engagement in meaning-making, each text functions as a contemporary griot, or repository of communal, cultural history. In contrast to earlier generations’ writing, which relied on the use of folktale, proverb, and linguis…
Postcoloniality, spatiality and cosmopolitanism in theOpen City
This paper considers the performance of postcolonial spatiality in Teju Cole’s 2011 novel, Open City. Arguing against theoretical positions which view the production of postcolonial space as inherently liberatory, the article considers how, through its textual deconstruction of neoliberal visions of cosmopolitanism, Cole’s novel produces a reading of postcolonial spatiality as a continuation of the abstract formations of colonial space. The paper…
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction: Interrogating the Postnation in African Literary Writing: Localities and Globalities Madhu Krishnan In his introduction to The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Helon Habila puts forward the claim that the new generation of African writers might best be described as “post-nationalist,” suggesting that contemporary writers—often referred to as the “third generation” of African writing—might have “the best potential to liberate …
When is biography fiction? Life writing, epistemophilia, and the limits of genre in contemporary Kenyan writing
In On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe opens with the assertion that “[s]peaking rationally about Africa is not something that has ever come naturally”. In this article, I use Mbembe’s remarks as my starting point, using his observations around the place — or lack thereof — of “Africa” within a larger philosophical matrix predicated on Enlightenment-derived notions of knowledge, and applying it to three examples of auto/biographical life writing re…
From Empire to Independence
This article examines the production of space in four early Anglophone and Francophone West African novels, reading Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Nigeria, 1952), Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (Nigeria, 1954), Mongo Beti's Mission terminée (Cameroon, 1957), and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambiguë (Senegal, 1961) alongside broader social, political, and economic spatial discourses from the 1950s and 1960s. By so doing, the arti…
Print Activism in Twenty-First-Century Africa
Introduction to special issue of Wasafiri magazine on contemporary African publishing
Small magazines in Africa
This special issue introduction maps the trajectories, histories, ecologies and genealogies of small magazine production and circulation in Africa, within the broader contexts of print cultural histories that frame intellectual, political and cultural communities in Africa and its diasporas in the long twentieth century. It argues for the ways in which the small magazine not only creates alternative audiences and publics, but frames the ecologies…
Affect, empathy, and engagement
This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining the ways in which each novel situates its staging of African conflict against the a priori image of Africa, the article focuses on the ways in which each novel demands a readerly engagement based on alterity. Rather than viewing the text as a passive repository of et…
Biafra and the Aesthetics of Closure in the Third Generation Nigerian Novel
This paper examines the role of closure, or the lack thereof, in four contemporary Nigerian novels. Representative of the third wave of Nigerian literature, these narratives each deals with themes of trauma, identity and community affiliation in postcolonial Africa, highlighting the fractured and displaced nation-state as the site of a radical aporia between individual fulfillment and communal harmony. This article postulates that the lack of clo…
Writing Now Review Essay
Gods without Men Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011, pb 400pp ISBN 0 2411 4311 7 £12.99 www.penguin.co.uk Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarl
Abjection and the fetish
This article seeks to reconsider the notion of the exotic within postcolonial studies, using the case study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and its central relationship between Englishman Richard, and Nigerian Kainene. Viewed primarily as a subtype of orientalism, exoticism, as a process, has been presented as a unidirectional phenomenon of action from a dominating metropolitan subject onto the passive Other. This article argue…
The storyteller function in contemporary Nigerian narrative
This paper considers the articulation of orality in contemporary Nigerian writing, focusing on Helon Habila’s Measuring Time (2007) and Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2008), asserting that, through the manipulation of collective engagement in meaning-making, each text functions as a contemporary griot, or repository of communal, cultural history. In contrast to earlier generations’ writing, which relied on the use of folktale, proverb, and linguis…
Contemporary African Literature in English
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender and Representing the Unrepresentable
Women’s identities in African literature form a particularly difficult facet of representation due, in large part, to the problem of articulating an intersectional identity in language. 1 As Kimberlé Crenshaw has aptly stated, ‘Because of their intersectional identity as both women and of color within discourses shaped to respond to one or the other, women of color are marginalized within both’. 2 African women, in other words, are identified as …
Affect, empathy, and engagement
This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining the ways in which each novel situates its staging of African conflict against the a priori image of Africa, the article focuses on the ways in which each novel demands a readerly engagement based on alterity. Rather than viewing the text as a passive repository of et…
Postcoloniality, spatiality and cosmopolitanism in theOpen City
This paper considers the performance of postcolonial spatiality in Teju Cole’s 2011 novel, Open City. Arguing against theoretical positions which view the production of postcolonial space as inherently liberatory, the article considers how, through its textual deconstruction of neoliberal visions of cosmopolitanism, Cole’s novel produces a reading of postcolonial spatiality as a continuation of the abstract formations of colonial space. The paper…
Print Activism in Twenty-First-Century Africa
Introduction to special issue of Wasafiri magazine on contemporary African publishing
From Empire to Independence
This article examines the production of space in four early Anglophone and Francophone West African novels, reading Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Nigeria, 1952), Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (Nigeria, 1954), Mongo Beti's Mission terminée (Cameroon, 1957), and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambiguë (Senegal, 1961) alongside broader social, political, and economic spatial discourses from the 1950s and 1960s. By so doing, the arti…
Introduction
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
Introduction
Introduction: Interrogating the Postnation in African Literary Writing: Localities and Globalities Madhu Krishnan In his introduction to The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Helon Habila puts forward the claim that the new generation of African writers might best be described as “post-nationalist,” suggesting that contemporary writers—often referred to as the “third generation” of African writing—might have “the best potential to liberate …
When is biography fiction? Life writing, epistemophilia, and the limits of genre in contemporary Kenyan writing
In On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe opens with the assertion that “[s]peaking rationally about Africa is not something that has ever come naturally”. In this article, I use Mbembe’s remarks as my starting point, using his observations around the place — or lack thereof — of “Africa” within a larger philosophical matrix predicated on Enlightenment-derived notions of knowledge, and applying it to three examples of auto/biographical life writing re…
Materiality and Nature
[No abstract]
Six Steps Toward Consecration
Research Article| May 01 2021 Six Steps Toward Consecration M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan originally hails from the coastal shores of Tamil Nadu, India. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and she currently lives and works in the Midwest. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (96): 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8851212 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…
Introduction
[No Abstract]
Creative Writing as Literary Activism
This paper explores the concept of literary activism by reflecting on a co-productive creative writing project run by the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and the Center for African Cultural Excellence (Uganda). It considers how the space of the creative writing workshop opens platforms for decolonial knowledge production
Small magazines in Africa
This special issue introduction maps the trajectories, histories, ecologies and genealogies of small magazine production and circulation in Africa, within the broader contexts of print cultural histories that frame intellectual, political and cultural communities in Africa and its diasporas in the long twentieth century. It argues for the ways in which the small magazine not only creates alternative audiences and publics, but frames the ecologies…
Black Lives Matter and the Contemporary African Novel
In June 2020, a group of more than one hundred African writers published a statement of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter uprisings that emerged around the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this statement are a number of claims around the extension of Black internationalism and solidarities and the uneven—and sometimes uneasy—interrelation between the violence of white supremacy as evidenced in the United States and the lar…
Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century
Depuis le début du troisième millénaire, l’essor de la « nouvelle littérature nigériane » a inspiré de nombreux numéros spéciaux, y compris dans des revues réputées comme English in Africa et Research in African Literatures , et a contribué à la célébrité d’auteurs tels qu’Adichie, Abani, Habila et Adebayo érigés au rang de représentants de cette nouvelle génération. Dans le même temps, les chercheurs se sont relativement peu intéressés aux conti…
Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Citizenship, Responsibility and Literary Culture in the University Periodical in Eastern Africa
This chapter examines the Kenyan literary periodical Busara [Wisdom in Kiswahili] (1967–75), which had its political and intellectual roots in the anti-colonial struggle, but which first appeared after independence. Busara played a central role in framing the literary and political discourses of the new nation. Drawing contributions from East Africa, the United States and Europe, and featuring contributions by well-known figures such as Ngũgĩ wa …
Thinking otherwise”
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