Yogita Goyal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3613293 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yogita Goyal |
| PRENOMES | Yogita |
| SOBRENOME | Goyal |
| ASSINATURA | GOYAL Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5248-3513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Anticolonialism as Theory
Research Article| May 01 2023 Anticolonialism as Theory Yogita Goyal Yogita Goyal YOGITA GOYAL is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019), which won the René Wellek Prize from ACLA, the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and Honorable Mention for the James Rus…
Runaway Genres
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. To fathom forms of freedom and bondage today—from unlawful detention to sex trafficking, the refugee crisis, genocide—this project reads a vast range of contemporary literature, showing how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the s…
“We Are All Migrants”
I draw on Edward Said’s meditations on exile to critique Mohsin Hamid’s representation of the migrant as a universal figure in his acclaimed 2017 novel Exit West. Hamid naturalizes the fact of migration to evacuate the specific historical experience that generates it, rendering banal what must remain historical. I consider how the refugee novel as a genre reckons with the difficulties of representation in relation to debates in visual culture and…
On transnational analogy
This essay takes up W. E. B. Du Bois’s theorization of internationalism, focusing on his representation of India as racial kin and anti-colonial herald, especially his suggestion of an analogy between race and caste, by reading him alongside Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore. I juxtapose Du Bois and Tagore to recover a submerged history of a sustained dialogue between India and the United States over whether race and c…
The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature
For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature in relation to ethnic, postcolonial, and hemispheric studies. Leading scholars open up wide-ranging examinations of transnationalism in Americ…
The Genres of Guantánamo Diary
This essay reads Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary (2015) as an exemplary occasion to stage the dilemmas of postcolonial reading in the present, especially in relation to the global War on Terror declared by the United States after the 9/11 attacks. Reading Guantánamo Diary in relation to a genre it clearly seems to echo—the African American slave narrative—the essay argues that the analogy to slavery enables a deeper sense of the multiple …
Introduction
Yogita Goyal, "Introduction: The Transnational Turn," in the Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, ed. Yogita Goyal, 1–17 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
African Atrocity, American Humanity
This essay argues that contemporary American conceptions of African atrocity are haunted by the specter of slavery, which structures the ways in which a relation between the United States and Africa is imagined. Francis Bok's memoir, Escape from Slavery (2003), and Dave Eggers's novel What Is the What (2006) reveal the stakes of this literary haunting, where the canonical Atlantic genre of the antebellum slave narrative is called into play to nar…
A Deep Humanness, a Deep Grace
Author of six acclaimed novels, including GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), seven collections of poetry, and numerous critical essays on literature, art, ethics, photography, and cities, Chris Abani is now one of the most important African writers. In this interview, Abani evaluates his place in Nigerian, African, and world literature, touching along the way on topics as diverse as national…
Black Nationalist Hokum
This essay reads George Schuyler's transnational fantasies- Black Empire, Ethiopian Fictions, and Slaves Today -as a sustained critique and parody of the era's pan-Africanism, especially of W. E. B. Du Bois's notion of black Zionism and Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement. In refusing to imagine a global black community linked by racial or political identification, Schuyler denaturalizes race and makes visible the blind spots of current trans…
Dance of Life
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature
Towards an African Atlantic
This essay reads the plays of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo in dialogue with influential theories of transnationalism to argue that her treatment of colonialism, slavery, gender, and diaspora stretches and reshapes Paul Gilroy's conception of the black Atlantic. Neither Afrocentric nor essentialist, Aidoo is not usually thought of as part of the black diaspora, despite her constant engagement with notions of pan-Africanism, black nationalism, and…
Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies
Theorists in cultural studies routinely invoke diaspora as a syncretized configuration of cultural identity: shifting, flexible, and invariably anti-essentialist. This notion pointedly revises an earlier definition of diaspora structured by a teleology of origin, scattering, and return. While these older conceptions of diaspora posited an organic link to Africa, and imagined both symbolic and actual returns to the homeland, the new one focuses on…
African Atrocity, American Humanity
This essay argues that contemporary American conceptions of African atrocity are haunted by the specter of slavery, which structures the ways in which a relation between the United States and Africa is imagined. Francis Bok's memoir, Escape from Slavery (2003), and Dave Eggers's novel What Is the What (2006) reveal the stakes of this literary haunting, where the canonical Atlantic genre of the antebellum slave narrative is called into play to nar…
On transnational analogy
This essay takes up W. E. B. Du Bois’s theorization of internationalism, focusing on his representation of India as racial kin and anti-colonial herald, especially his suggestion of an analogy between race and caste, by reading him alongside Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore. I juxtapose Du Bois and Tagore to recover a submerged history of a sustained dialogue between India and the United States over whether race and c…
Towards an African Atlantic
This essay reads the plays of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo in dialogue with influential theories of transnationalism to argue that her treatment of colonialism, slavery, gender, and diaspora stretches and reshapes Paul Gilroy's conception of the black Atlantic. Neither Afrocentric nor essentialist, Aidoo is not usually thought of as part of the black diaspora, despite her constant engagement with notions of pan-Africanism, black nationalism, and…
Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies
Theorists in cultural studies routinely invoke diaspora as a syncretized configuration of cultural identity: shifting, flexible, and invariably anti-essentialist. This notion pointedly revises an earlier definition of diaspora structured by a teleology of origin, scattering, and return. While these older conceptions of diaspora posited an organic link to Africa, and imagined both symbolic and actual returns to the homeland, the new one focuses on…
Anticolonialism as Theory
Research Article| May 01 2023 Anticolonialism as Theory Yogita Goyal Yogita Goyal YOGITA GOYAL is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019), which won the René Wellek Prize from ACLA, the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and Honorable Mention for the James Rus…
The Genres of Guantánamo Diary
This essay reads Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary (2015) as an exemplary occasion to stage the dilemmas of postcolonial reading in the present, especially in relation to the global War on Terror declared by the United States after the 9/11 attacks. Reading Guantánamo Diary in relation to a genre it clearly seems to echo—the African American slave narrative—the essay argues that the analogy to slavery enables a deeper sense of the multiple …
Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies
Theorists in cultural studies routinely invoke diaspora as a syncretized configuration of cultural identity: shifting, flexible, and invariably anti-essentialist. This notion pointedly revises an earlier definition of diaspora structured by a teleology of origin, scattering, and return. While these older conceptions of diaspora posited an organic link to Africa, and imagined both symbolic and actual returns to the homeland, the new one focuses on…
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature
Towards an African Atlantic
This essay reads the plays of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo in dialogue with influential theories of transnationalism to argue that her treatment of colonialism, slavery, gender, and diaspora stretches and reshapes Paul Gilroy's conception of the black Atlantic. Neither Afrocentric nor essentialist, Aidoo is not usually thought of as part of the black diaspora, despite her constant engagement with notions of pan-Africanism, black nationalism, and…
Dance of Life
African Atrocity, American Humanity
This essay argues that contemporary American conceptions of African atrocity are haunted by the specter of slavery, which structures the ways in which a relation between the United States and Africa is imagined. Francis Bok's memoir, Escape from Slavery (2003), and Dave Eggers's novel What Is the What (2006) reveal the stakes of this literary haunting, where the canonical Atlantic genre of the antebellum slave narrative is called into play to nar…
A Deep Humanness, a Deep Grace
Author of six acclaimed novels, including GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), seven collections of poetry, and numerous critical essays on literature, art, ethics, photography, and cities, Chris Abani is now one of the most important African writers. In this interview, Abani evaluates his place in Nigerian, African, and world literature, touching along the way on topics as diverse as national…
Black Nationalist Hokum
This essay reads George Schuyler's transnational fantasies- Black Empire, Ethiopian Fictions, and Slaves Today -as a sustained critique and parody of the era's pan-Africanism, especially of W. E. B. Du Bois's notion of black Zionism and Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement. In refusing to imagine a global black community linked by racial or political identification, Schuyler denaturalizes race and makes visible the blind spots of current trans…
The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature
For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature in relation to ethnic, postcolonial, and hemispheric studies. Leading scholars open up wide-ranging examinations of transnationalism in Americ…
The Genres of Guantánamo Diary
This essay reads Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary (2015) as an exemplary occasion to stage the dilemmas of postcolonial reading in the present, especially in relation to the global War on Terror declared by the United States after the 9/11 attacks. Reading Guantánamo Diary in relation to a genre it clearly seems to echo—the African American slave narrative—the essay argues that the analogy to slavery enables a deeper sense of the multiple …
Introduction
Yogita Goyal, "Introduction: The Transnational Turn," in the Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, ed. Yogita Goyal, 1–17 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
On transnational analogy
This essay takes up W. E. B. Du Bois’s theorization of internationalism, focusing on his representation of India as racial kin and anti-colonial herald, especially his suggestion of an analogy between race and caste, by reading him alongside Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore. I juxtapose Du Bois and Tagore to recover a submerged history of a sustained dialogue between India and the United States over whether race and c…
Runaway Genres
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. To fathom forms of freedom and bondage today—from unlawful detention to sex trafficking, the refugee crisis, genocide—this project reads a vast range of contemporary literature, showing how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the s…
“We Are All Migrants”
I draw on Edward Said’s meditations on exile to critique Mohsin Hamid’s representation of the migrant as a universal figure in his acclaimed 2017 novel Exit West. Hamid naturalizes the fact of migration to evacuate the specific historical experience that generates it, rendering banal what must remain historical. I consider how the refugee novel as a genre reckons with the difficulties of representation in relation to debates in visual culture and…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Anticolonialism as Theory
Research Article| May 01 2023 Anticolonialism as Theory Yogita Goyal Yogita Goyal YOGITA GOYAL is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019), which won the René Wellek Prize from ACLA, the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and Honorable Mention for the James Rus…
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