Neelam Srivastava
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neelam Srivastava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neelam |
| FAMILY NAME | Srivastava |
| SIGNATURE | SRIVASTAVA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4076-6580 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr’s latest book begins with stories around and about the colonial port, though the initial spotlight is on decidedly nonnarrative texts such as classification lists of cargo items, customs handbooks, and what she intriguingly calls the “book-as-form,” namely diaries and registers. These, she says, “offered one unwitting model of colonial writing in which a template from the metropolis was filled with local scribblings” (12). The port…
Philological Method and Subaltern Pasts
This essay argues that Antonio Gramsci should be considered a postcolonial thinker. This is not an exercise in presenting the “legacy” of a European Marxist’s thought in the Third World. The aim here, rather, is to determine how Gramscian thought can be read as anticolonial, and how he related empire to the hegemonic-subaltern dialectic that structured his political theories. I engage with Joseph Buttigieg’s well-known essay “Gramsci’s Method” in…
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia
This article examines the feminist, communist and antifascist campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst as a postcolonial intellectual for our times. A forgotten figure in the history of anticolonialism, Pankhurst was active in the suffragette movement and then the communist movement, before devoting her political energies to supporting Ethiopia against the Italian invasion led by Mussolini in 1935. Pankhurst’s broadsheet New Times and Ethiopia News published …
Roberta Pergher. Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922–1943
Italy’s empire was quite short-lived: the first Italian colony, Eritrea, was founded in 1890, but all Italian overseas possessions fell to the British in 1941, during World War II. Its brief duration has contributed to the widespread amnesia surrounding Italy’s colonial past, both in public and in academic contexts. However, Roberta Pergher’s book Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922–1943 showcases th…
“Ethiopia’s Cause Is Our Cause”: Black Internationalism and the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
The repercussions and significance in Italy of the Ethiopian war as a “critical event” have been discussed in the previous chapter. In this chapter, and in Chap. 4 , I focus on the generic variety of black-authored representations that sought to appropriate this event for the development of an Afrocentric historical narrative of liberation. Even more than the event itself, it was its deployment by black writers in the service of an emancipatory i…
Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970
This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’
In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps, a vital form of public engagement, Contemporary Studies Network (CSN) asked six of its members, working across very different areas of literary and cultural studies, to respond to and extend Macfarlan…
Postcolonial Theory
This chapter covers 2013 and 2014 selected publications on diverse aspects of postcolonial theory; it is divided into two sections: 1. Books; 2. Journals. Section 1 is by Robert McLaughlan and examines books published in 2013, while Section 2 is by Neelam Srivastava and deals with journal articles published in the field in 2013 and 2014.
Frantz Fanon in Italy: Or, Historicizing Fanon
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Frantz Fanon in Italy’ provides an overview of Fanon's influence on Italian intellectual and political life, with special focus on the significant impact his writings had on the renovation of the Italian Left in the 1960s, as well as highlighting the continuities between Italian anti-fascism and anticolonialism. Fanon's Italian reception is interesting for postcolonial scholars in that it differs from th…
Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multilingual Contexts
This special issue collects a series of essays that reimagine the positioning of translation as theory and practice in diverse postcolonial contexts. A rethinking of translation as a linguistic transaction which always necessarily involves a negotiation between cultures has been at the core of postcolonial theory almost since its inception. Much of the discussion of translation in relation to imperial formations has centred around the notion that…
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
The Postcolonial Gramsci
Introduction: The Postcolonial Gramsci Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya I. Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies 1. Il Gramsci meridionale Robert JC Young 2. Provincializing the Italian Reading of Gramsci Paolo Capuzzo and Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Travels of the Organic Intellectual: The Black Colonized Intellectual in George Padmore and Frantz Fanon Neelam Srivastava 4. The Secular Alliance: Gramsci, Said and the Postcolonial Question Baidik B…
Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency
How is the re‐humanization of the colonized self effected during decolonization? This essay examines different conceptualizations of the (de)colonized/postcolonial subject in relationship to violence, by focusing on two works that recast Gandhi’s and Fanon’s anti‐colonial principles in textual and cinematic form. It establishes a comparison between two modes of anti‐colonial theory and practice, violence and non‐violence, as competing “ethics of …
Anthologizing the nation: Literature anthologies and the idea of India
This essay examines the characteristics of the anthology as a literary "meta‐genre". It looks at a range of English‐language anthologies of South Asian writing published after independence, and discusses how they have shaped an idea of the subcontinent and its literature for national and transnational audiences. By examining these diverse anthologies, the essay aims to expand prevailing notions of a South Asian literary canon beyond the dominance…
Bollywood as National(ist) Cinema: Violence, Patriotism and the National‐Popular in Rang De Basanti
This article explores the relationship between violence, patriotism and the national‐popular within the medium of film, by examining the Indian film‐maker Rakeysh Mehra's recent Bollywood hit, Rang de Basanti (2006). This film forms part of a body of work that represents violence as integral to the emergence of an Indian national identity. It restages Indian nationalist history not in the customary pacifist Gandhian vein, but in the mode of marty…
Violence and the wretched: The cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo
Books
Pidgin English or Pigeon Indian: Babus and Babuisms in Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
The figure of the Indian Babu is fundamental to the concept of colonial mimicry, and has a conspicuous historical and literary genealogy. In this paper I will address its presence in colonial English fiction such as Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and George Orwell’s Burmese Days as well as its central role in certain Bengali farces and satires of the 19th century, and more recently in Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy. The aim of the paper is to present …
Anti-Colonialism and the Italian Left: Resistances to the Fascist Invasion of Ethiopia
Italy was, for a short period, an empire; and yet unlike other empires, it apparently lacked a vocal anti-colonial element. This article draws attention to the ambivalence of the Italian response to colonialism, by focusing on a specific moment of Italy's engagement with empire: the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini in 1935. On the one hand, this colonial war (one of the very last to be fought) consolidated a mass consensus around the regime. How…
Colonial and Postcolonial Italy
Anti-colonial violence and the 'dictatorship of truth' in the films of gillo pontecorvo: An Interview
This article is a companion piece to my interview with the Italian film director Gillo Pontecorvo. The essay presents his two famous anti-colonial films, The Battle of Algiers and Burn!, in the context of Pontecorvo's life and work. His anti-colonialism is related to his anti-fascism, as is evident in the film Kapò, whose protagonist is a Jewish girl struggling to survive in a Nazi concentration camp. His films were influenced by neo-realism and …
Amitav Ghosh’s Ethnographic Fictions: Intertextual Links between In An Antique Land and His Doctoral Thesis
Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences
An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences
Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency
How is the re‐humanization of the colonized self effected during decolonization? This essay examines different conceptualizations of the (de)colonized/postcolonial subject in relationship to violence, by focusing on two works that recast Gandhi’s and Fanon’s anti‐colonial principles in textual and cinematic form. It establishes a comparison between two modes of anti‐colonial theory and practice, violence and non‐violence, as competing “ethics of …
Anthologizing the nation: Literature anthologies and the idea of India
This essay examines the characteristics of the anthology as a literary "meta‐genre". It looks at a range of English‐language anthologies of South Asian writing published after independence, and discusses how they have shaped an idea of the subcontinent and its literature for national and transnational audiences. By examining these diverse anthologies, the essay aims to expand prevailing notions of a South Asian literary canon beyond the dominance…
Bollywood as National(ist) Cinema: Violence, Patriotism and the National‐Popular in Rang De Basanti
This article explores the relationship between violence, patriotism and the national‐popular within the medium of film, by examining the Indian film‐maker Rakeysh Mehra's recent Bollywood hit, Rang de Basanti (2006). This film forms part of a body of work that represents violence as integral to the emergence of an Indian national identity. It restages Indian nationalist history not in the customary pacifist Gandhian vein, but in the mode of marty…
Colonial and Postcolonial Italy
Amitav Ghosh’s Ethnographic Fictions: Intertextual Links between In An Antique Land and His Doctoral Thesis
An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences
Philological Method and Subaltern Pasts
This essay argues that Antonio Gramsci should be considered a postcolonial thinker. This is not an exercise in presenting the “legacy” of a European Marxist’s thought in the Third World. The aim here, rather, is to determine how Gramscian thought can be read as anticolonial, and how he related empire to the hegemonic-subaltern dialectic that structured his political theories. I engage with Joseph Buttigieg’s well-known essay “Gramsci’s Method” in…
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
Pidgin English or Pigeon Indian: Babus and Babuisms in Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
The figure of the Indian Babu is fundamental to the concept of colonial mimicry, and has a conspicuous historical and literary genealogy. In this paper I will address its presence in colonial English fiction such as Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and George Orwell’s Burmese Days as well as its central role in certain Bengali farces and satires of the 19th century, and more recently in Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy. The aim of the paper is to present …
Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences
An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences
Amitav Ghosh’s Ethnographic Fictions: Intertextual Links between In An Antique Land and His Doctoral Thesis
Anti-colonial violence and the 'dictatorship of truth' in the films of gillo pontecorvo: An Interview
This article is a companion piece to my interview with the Italian film director Gillo Pontecorvo. The essay presents his two famous anti-colonial films, The Battle of Algiers and Burn!, in the context of Pontecorvo's life and work. His anti-colonialism is related to his anti-fascism, as is evident in the film Kapò, whose protagonist is a Jewish girl struggling to survive in a Nazi concentration camp. His films were influenced by neo-realism and …
Anti-Colonialism and the Italian Left: Resistances to the Fascist Invasion of Ethiopia
Italy was, for a short period, an empire; and yet unlike other empires, it apparently lacked a vocal anti-colonial element. This article draws attention to the ambivalence of the Italian response to colonialism, by focusing on a specific moment of Italy's engagement with empire: the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini in 1935. On the one hand, this colonial war (one of the very last to be fought) consolidated a mass consensus around the regime. How…
Colonial and Postcolonial Italy
Pidgin English or Pigeon Indian: Babus and Babuisms in Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
The figure of the Indian Babu is fundamental to the concept of colonial mimicry, and has a conspicuous historical and literary genealogy. In this paper I will address its presence in colonial English fiction such as Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and George Orwell’s Burmese Days as well as its central role in certain Bengali farces and satires of the 19th century, and more recently in Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy. The aim of the paper is to present …
Bollywood as National(ist) Cinema: Violence, Patriotism and the National‐Popular in Rang De Basanti
This article explores the relationship between violence, patriotism and the national‐popular within the medium of film, by examining the Indian film‐maker Rakeysh Mehra's recent Bollywood hit, Rang de Basanti (2006). This film forms part of a body of work that represents violence as integral to the emergence of an Indian national identity. It restages Indian nationalist history not in the customary pacifist Gandhian vein, but in the mode of marty…
Violence and the wretched: The cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo
Books
Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency
How is the re‐humanization of the colonized self effected during decolonization? This essay examines different conceptualizations of the (de)colonized/postcolonial subject in relationship to violence, by focusing on two works that recast Gandhi’s and Fanon’s anti‐colonial principles in textual and cinematic form. It establishes a comparison between two modes of anti‐colonial theory and practice, violence and non‐violence, as competing “ethics of …
Anthologizing the nation: Literature anthologies and the idea of India
This essay examines the characteristics of the anthology as a literary "meta‐genre". It looks at a range of English‐language anthologies of South Asian writing published after independence, and discusses how they have shaped an idea of the subcontinent and its literature for national and transnational audiences. By examining these diverse anthologies, the essay aims to expand prevailing notions of a South Asian literary canon beyond the dominance…
The Postcolonial Gramsci
Introduction: The Postcolonial Gramsci Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya I. Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies 1. Il Gramsci meridionale Robert JC Young 2. Provincializing the Italian Reading of Gramsci Paolo Capuzzo and Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Travels of the Organic Intellectual: The Black Colonized Intellectual in George Padmore and Frantz Fanon Neelam Srivastava 4. The Secular Alliance: Gramsci, Said and the Postcolonial Question Baidik B…
Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multilingual Contexts
This special issue collects a series of essays that reimagine the positioning of translation as theory and practice in diverse postcolonial contexts. A rethinking of translation as a linguistic transaction which always necessarily involves a negotiation between cultures has been at the core of postcolonial theory almost since its inception. Much of the discussion of translation in relation to imperial formations has centred around the notion that…
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
Postcolonial Theory
This chapter covers 2013 and 2014 selected publications on diverse aspects of postcolonial theory; it is divided into two sections: 1. Books; 2. Journals. Section 1 is by Robert McLaughlan and examines books published in 2013, while Section 2 is by Neelam Srivastava and deals with journal articles published in the field in 2013 and 2014.
Frantz Fanon in Italy: Or, Historicizing Fanon
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Frantz Fanon in Italy’ provides an overview of Fanon's influence on Italian intellectual and political life, with special focus on the significant impact his writings had on the renovation of the Italian Left in the 1960s, as well as highlighting the continuities between Italian anti-fascism and anticolonialism. Fanon's Italian reception is interesting for postcolonial scholars in that it differs from th…
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’
In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps, a vital form of public engagement, Contemporary Studies Network (CSN) asked six of its members, working across very different areas of literary and cultural studies, to respond to and extend Macfarlan…
“Ethiopia’s Cause Is Our Cause”: Black Internationalism and the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
The repercussions and significance in Italy of the Ethiopian war as a “critical event” have been discussed in the previous chapter. In this chapter, and in Chap. 4 , I focus on the generic variety of black-authored representations that sought to appropriate this event for the development of an Afrocentric historical narrative of liberation. Even more than the event itself, it was its deployment by black writers in the service of an emancipatory i…
Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970
This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism
Roberta Pergher. Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922–1943
Italy’s empire was quite short-lived: the first Italian colony, Eritrea, was founded in 1890, but all Italian overseas possessions fell to the British in 1941, during World War II. Its brief duration has contributed to the widespread amnesia surrounding Italy’s colonial past, both in public and in academic contexts. However, Roberta Pergher’s book Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922–1943 showcases th…
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia
This article examines the feminist, communist and antifascist campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst as a postcolonial intellectual for our times. A forgotten figure in the history of anticolonialism, Pankhurst was active in the suffragette movement and then the communist movement, before devoting her political energies to supporting Ethiopia against the Italian invasion led by Mussolini in 1935. Pankhurst’s broadsheet New Times and Ethiopia News published …
Philological Method and Subaltern Pasts
This essay argues that Antonio Gramsci should be considered a postcolonial thinker. This is not an exercise in presenting the “legacy” of a European Marxist’s thought in the Third World. The aim here, rather, is to determine how Gramscian thought can be read as anticolonial, and how he related empire to the hegemonic-subaltern dialectic that structured his political theories. I engage with Joseph Buttigieg’s well-known essay “Gramsci’s Method” in…
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr’s latest book begins with stories around and about the colonial port, though the initial spotlight is on decidedly nonnarrative texts such as classification lists of cargo items, customs handbooks, and what she intriguingly calls the “book-as-form,” namely diaries and registers. These, she says, “offered one unwitting model of colonial writing in which a template from the metropolis was filled with local scribblings” (12). The port…
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