Swati Rana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swati Rana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swati |
| FAMILY NAME | Rana |
| SIGNATURE | RANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
Mother, Earth — A Colloquy
Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature
This essay introduces Amerasia Journal's special issue on "Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature." Drawing upon multi-genre and multimodal contributions to this issue, we theorize different ways of joining creative and critical modes, offering five suppositions as to what this articulation enables for Asian American representation; autobiography and art; embodiment and living archives; generic, epistemological, and structural bound…
Going Back to the Basement” A Roundtable on Creativity, Critique, and the Stewarding of Asian American Literary Arts
This roundtable features writers, scholars, editors, and organizers who are invested in Asian American literature. The conversation touched on literary history, the convergence of creative writing and critique, and the importance of grass roots programs and organizing
Orientalism and the Orator
This essay explores Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s understudied autobiography Caste and Outcast (1923) and its elaboration of Orientalism. Linking theories of American Orientalism, racial form, and Asian American rhetoric, it shows how East and West work as tropes within the autobiography on two levels, as formulaic motifs and as expansive metaphors. Faced with Orientalist constructs that appear insurmountable, Mukerji creates a new figure: the soapbox ora…
Backwaters; What to Call Her; Rain Spent with Sister
The Production of Nativity in Early Syrian Immigrant Literature
Rana's essay reads two pioneering works by Syrian immigrant writers, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid (1911) and Abraham Rihbany's A Far Journey (1914), that inaugurate Arab American fiction and autobiography, respectively. She shows how both texts proliferate myths of origin, attributions of kinship, and figurations of birth and rebirth, constructing a literary discourse of immigrant nativity-what Rana understands as the production of belonging…
The Production of Nativity in Early Syrian Immigrant Literature
Rana's essay reads two pioneering works by Syrian immigrant writers, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid (1911) and Abraham Rihbany's A Far Journey (1914), that inaugurate Arab American fiction and autobiography, respectively. She shows how both texts proliferate myths of origin, attributions of kinship, and figurations of birth and rebirth, constructing a literary discourse of immigrant nativity-what Rana understands as the production of belonging…
The Production of Nativity in Early Syrian Immigrant Literature
Rana's essay reads two pioneering works by Syrian immigrant writers, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid (1911) and Abraham Rihbany's A Far Journey (1914), that inaugurate Arab American fiction and autobiography, respectively. She shows how both texts proliferate myths of origin, attributions of kinship, and figurations of birth and rebirth, constructing a literary discourse of immigrant nativity-what Rana understands as the production of belonging…
Backwaters; What to Call Her; Rain Spent with Sister
Orientalism and the Orator
This essay explores Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s understudied autobiography Caste and Outcast (1923) and its elaboration of Orientalism. Linking theories of American Orientalism, racial form, and Asian American rhetoric, it shows how East and West work as tropes within the autobiography on two levels, as formulaic motifs and as expansive metaphors. Faced with Orientalist constructs that appear insurmountable, Mukerji creates a new figure: the soapbox ora…
Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature
This essay introduces Amerasia Journal's special issue on "Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature." Drawing upon multi-genre and multimodal contributions to this issue, we theorize different ways of joining creative and critical modes, offering five suppositions as to what this articulation enables for Asian American representation; autobiography and art; embodiment and living archives; generic, epistemological, and structural bound…
Going Back to the Basement” A Roundtable on Creativity, Critique, and the Stewarding of Asian American Literary Arts
This roundtable features writers, scholars, editors, and organizers who are invested in Asian American literature. The conversation touched on literary history, the convergence of creative writing and critique, and the importance of grass roots programs and organizing
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
Mother, Earth — A Colloquy
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