Laetitia Zecchini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laetitia Zecchini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laetitia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zecchini |
| SIGNATURE | ZECCHINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rag-pickers, boxers, dilettantes
This essay examines the intertwined literary and critical trajectories of Amit Chaudhuri and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, two writer-critics and “allies” whose roles in (re)shaping the field of Indian literature today are unparalleled. Framed by Theodor Adorno’s conception of the essay as an anti-dogmatic, experimental form, I read both authors as practitioners of a distinctive form of literary activism, understood as the entanglement between activis…
When My Own Writing is My Enemy”
Perumal Murugan was born in 1966 into a family of farmers near Tiruchengodu, a temple town in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, which is part of the Kongu Nadu region. That is where much of his fiction is set, and where he continues to live today. Brought up on a farm where he looked after goats and cattle, and raised in a family from which he inherited a whole "legacy of illiteracy" (his words), nothing seemed to have predestined Murugan to b…
Archives of Minority
This essay considers several literary archives connected to Bombay/Mumbai: the ‘Bombay poets’ and Bombay modernisms archive; the archives of the PEN All-India Centre and those of the US-backed liberal ‘front’ in the Cultural Cold War. What does the vulnerability of these archives tell us of the practices, poetics and the politics of these writers, and what may bind them together? ‘Minority’, also epitomised by the figure of Nissim Ezekiel, is the…
Activisme et littérature
En prenant appui sur l'histoire de la plus importante organisation mondiale d'écrivains, PEN International, et sur plusieurs trajectoires et mobilisations d'écrivains ou collectifs indiens contemporains (le Indian Cultural Forum, Karthika Naïr, Perumal Murugan), cet article s'interroge sur certaines modalités de l'activisme en littérature, entendu à la fois comme activisme à travers la littérature, et comme activisme au service de celle-ci. En In…
Mohini, Jérémiade pour les débris d'étoiles
A partir de la historia de la mayor organización mundial de escritores, PEN International, y de varias trayectorias y movilizaciones de escritores o colectivos indios contemporáneos (el Foro Cultural Indio, Karthika Naïr, Perumal Murugan), este artículo explora algunas modalidades de activismo en la literatura, entendido tanto como activismo a través de la literatura, como activismo al servicio de la misma. En la India, especialmente, el escritor…
What Filters Through the Curtain
This essay argues that the Cultural Cold War is one of the indispensable backgrounds against which the story of modernisms in India must be reconsidered. Using a wealth of unpublished or forgotten documents, it throws light on the ways by which the Cold War shaped the publishing, critical and literary scene in India in the 1950s–1970s, when both blocs were engaged in “pressing the fight” and devising or funding a vast arsenal of “cultural weapons…
Une « république des sentiments blessés » ? Censure(s), communautés vulnérables et guerres culturelles en Inde
Qu'est-ce que cela signifie, dans le contexte indien, de dire que des mots ou des œuvres blessent ou « font mal » ? Cet article étudie l'enchevêtrement spécifique entre rhétorique de la censure, d'une part, et langage et performance des émotions de l'autre. À travers le cas du peintre M. F. Husain et de la mobilisation du collectif d'artistes Sahmat, il s'agit de comprendre la manière dont la blessure ou la douleur sont utilisées et distribuées d…
India's Season of Dissent
Ghazal: India’s Season of DissentThis year, this night, this hour, rise to salute the season of dissent.Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims—Indians, all—seek their nation of dissent.We the people of...they chant: the mantra that birthed a republic.Even my distant eyes echo flares from this beacon of dissent.Kolkata, Kasargod, Kanpur, Nagpur, Tripura... watch it spread,tip to tricoloured tip, then soar: the winged horizon of dissent.Dibrugarh: five hundred stu…
India's Season of Dissent
Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent This year, this night, this hour, rise to salute the season of dissent. Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims—Indians, all—seek their nation of dissent. We the people of...they chant: the mantra that birthed a republic. Even my distant eyes echo flares from this beacon of dissent. Kolkata, Kasargod, Kanpur, Nagpur, Tripura... watch it spread, tip to tricoloured tip, then soar: the winged horizon of dissent. Dibrugarh: five hund…
Eunice de Souza 1940-2017
The editors of the special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53 (1–2) on “The Worlds of Bombay Poetry” regret to inform readers of the death of the renowned poet, Eunice de Souza, whose inte
Introduction
We were like cartographers, mapping the city
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of the most distinguished “Bombay poets”, whose career spans six decades, from his first work Bharatmata: A Prayer (1966) brought out by the Ezra-Fakir Press he founded to his recently published Collected Poems 1969–2014. His contribution to the Indian English language tradition has been far-reaching, not only through his poetry itself, but through his role as translator, anthologist, editor and critic. In this inte…
Perhaps I'm happier being on the sidelines
More than one world
Gulammohammed Sheikh is one of the most important contemporary Indian painters. He is also an acclaimed writer, an art historian and critic, and a poet in Gujarati (Athwa). In this conversation, which took place on August 13 and November 3, 2015, he discusses the centrality of Bombay for writers and artists of his generation, and his own connection with the city. He also reflects on the influence of poetry and translation, and on the transactions…
I had to construct lineages for myself
Penser le modernisme à partir de l'Inde
Cet article se propose de réfléchir aux questionnements théoriques, poétiques et esthétiques d'un modernisme à partir de l'Inde, en particulier à partir des pratiques d'artistes et d'écrivains de Bombay, d'Allahabad et de Baroda. Penser le modernisme à partir de l'Inde c'est penser une histoire singulière et une histoire connectée, c'est substituer à la question de l'origine de la modernité, ou au paradigme de l'influence, la notion de traduction…
Marginalized
This anthology of critical essays on Indian poetry in English comprises articles written exclusively by Indian scholars. Apart from the last two essays – one by A.J. Thomas on Dom Moraes, Keki Daru
Contemporary Bhakti Recastings
By exploring how many modern Indian poets (namely, here, Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Dilip Chitre) have chosen to trace their affiliations and lineage back to the inclusive bhakti devotional tradition, I am exploring the fecund connections between practices of translation and creative writing in contemporary Indian poetry, but also the emergence of a modernity that results from the complex interplay of languages, lineages and hybri…
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Le postcolonial dans ses allers-retours transatlantiques
Cet article vise à retracer les enjeux d’une pensée postcoloniale évolutive et à examiner la généalogie des études postcoloniales qui résultent en partie d’échanges intellectuels et de transactions-réinventions entre les deux rives de l’Atlantique. Les deux temps forts de cet échange sont, à partir des années 1970, l’exportation d’une pensée dite poststructuraliste élaborée en France et sa germination dans les universités américaines puis le rapa…
Introduction
Archives of Minority
This essay considers several literary archives connected to Bombay/Mumbai: the ‘Bombay poets’ and Bombay modernisms archive; the archives of the PEN All-India Centre and those of the US-backed liberal ‘front’ in the Cultural Cold War. What does the vulnerability of these archives tell us of the practices, poetics and the politics of these writers, and what may bind them together? ‘Minority’, also epitomised by the figure of Nissim Ezekiel, is the…
Une « république des sentiments blessés » ? Censure(s), communautés vulnérables et guerres culturelles en Inde
Qu'est-ce que cela signifie, dans le contexte indien, de dire que des mots ou des œuvres blessent ou « font mal » ? Cet article étudie l'enchevêtrement spécifique entre rhétorique de la censure, d'une part, et langage et performance des émotions de l'autre. À travers le cas du peintre M. F. Husain et de la mobilisation du collectif d'artistes Sahmat, il s'agit de comprendre la manière dont la blessure ou la douleur sont utilisées et distribuées d…
Perhaps I'm happier being on the sidelines
Le postcolonial dans ses allers-retours transatlantiques
Cet article vise à retracer les enjeux d’une pensée postcoloniale évolutive et à examiner la généalogie des études postcoloniales qui résultent en partie d’échanges intellectuels et de transactions-réinventions entre les deux rives de l’Atlantique. Les deux temps forts de cet échange sont, à partir des années 1970, l’exportation d’une pensée dite poststructuraliste élaborée en France et sa germination dans les universités américaines puis le rapa…
Le postcolonial dans ses allers-retours transatlantiques
Cet article vise à retracer les enjeux d’une pensée postcoloniale évolutive et à examiner la généalogie des études postcoloniales qui résultent en partie d’échanges intellectuels et de transactions-réinventions entre les deux rives de l’Atlantique. Les deux temps forts de cet échange sont, à partir des années 1970, l’exportation d’une pensée dite poststructuraliste élaborée en France et sa germination dans les universités américaines puis le rapa…
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Contemporary Bhakti Recastings
By exploring how many modern Indian poets (namely, here, Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Dilip Chitre) have chosen to trace their affiliations and lineage back to the inclusive bhakti devotional tradition, I am exploring the fecund connections between practices of translation and creative writing in contemporary Indian poetry, but also the emergence of a modernity that results from the complex interplay of languages, lineages and hybri…
Marginalized
This anthology of critical essays on Indian poetry in English comprises articles written exclusively by Indian scholars. Apart from the last two essays – one by A.J. Thomas on Dom Moraes, Keki Daru
Penser le modernisme à partir de l'Inde
Cet article se propose de réfléchir aux questionnements théoriques, poétiques et esthétiques d'un modernisme à partir de l'Inde, en particulier à partir des pratiques d'artistes et d'écrivains de Bombay, d'Allahabad et de Baroda. Penser le modernisme à partir de l'Inde c'est penser une histoire singulière et une histoire connectée, c'est substituer à la question de l'origine de la modernité, ou au paradigme de l'influence, la notion de traduction…
Eunice de Souza 1940-2017
The editors of the special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53 (1–2) on “The Worlds of Bombay Poetry” regret to inform readers of the death of the renowned poet, Eunice de Souza, whose inte
Introduction
We were like cartographers, mapping the city
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of the most distinguished “Bombay poets”, whose career spans six decades, from his first work Bharatmata: A Prayer (1966) brought out by the Ezra-Fakir Press he founded to his recently published Collected Poems 1969–2014. His contribution to the Indian English language tradition has been far-reaching, not only through his poetry itself, but through his role as translator, anthologist, editor and critic. In this inte…
Perhaps I'm happier being on the sidelines
More than one world
Gulammohammed Sheikh is one of the most important contemporary Indian painters. He is also an acclaimed writer, an art historian and critic, and a poet in Gujarati (Athwa). In this conversation, which took place on August 13 and November 3, 2015, he discusses the centrality of Bombay for writers and artists of his generation, and his own connection with the city. He also reflects on the influence of poetry and translation, and on the transactions…
I had to construct lineages for myself
India's Season of Dissent
Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent This year, this night, this hour, rise to salute the season of dissent. Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims—Indians, all—seek their nation of dissent. We the people of...they chant: the mantra that birthed a republic. Even my distant eyes echo flares from this beacon of dissent. Kolkata, Kasargod, Kanpur, Nagpur, Tripura... watch it spread, tip to tricoloured tip, then soar: the winged horizon of dissent. Dibrugarh: five hund…
What Filters Through the Curtain
This essay argues that the Cultural Cold War is one of the indispensable backgrounds against which the story of modernisms in India must be reconsidered. Using a wealth of unpublished or forgotten documents, it throws light on the ways by which the Cold War shaped the publishing, critical and literary scene in India in the 1950s–1970s, when both blocs were engaged in “pressing the fight” and devising or funding a vast arsenal of “cultural weapons…
Une « république des sentiments blessés » ? Censure(s), communautés vulnérables et guerres culturelles en Inde
Qu'est-ce que cela signifie, dans le contexte indien, de dire que des mots ou des œuvres blessent ou « font mal » ? Cet article étudie l'enchevêtrement spécifique entre rhétorique de la censure, d'une part, et langage et performance des émotions de l'autre. À travers le cas du peintre M. F. Husain et de la mobilisation du collectif d'artistes Sahmat, il s'agit de comprendre la manière dont la blessure ou la douleur sont utilisées et distribuées d…
India's Season of Dissent
Ghazal: India’s Season of DissentThis year, this night, this hour, rise to salute the season of dissent.Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims—Indians, all—seek their nation of dissent.We the people of...they chant: the mantra that birthed a republic.Even my distant eyes echo flares from this beacon of dissent.Kolkata, Kasargod, Kanpur, Nagpur, Tripura... watch it spread,tip to tricoloured tip, then soar: the winged horizon of dissent.Dibrugarh: five hundred stu…
Archives of Minority
This essay considers several literary archives connected to Bombay/Mumbai: the ‘Bombay poets’ and Bombay modernisms archive; the archives of the PEN All-India Centre and those of the US-backed liberal ‘front’ in the Cultural Cold War. What does the vulnerability of these archives tell us of the practices, poetics and the politics of these writers, and what may bind them together? ‘Minority’, also epitomised by the figure of Nissim Ezekiel, is the…
Activisme et littérature
En prenant appui sur l'histoire de la plus importante organisation mondiale d'écrivains, PEN International, et sur plusieurs trajectoires et mobilisations d'écrivains ou collectifs indiens contemporains (le Indian Cultural Forum, Karthika Naïr, Perumal Murugan), cet article s'interroge sur certaines modalités de l'activisme en littérature, entendu à la fois comme activisme à travers la littérature, et comme activisme au service de celle-ci. En In…
Mohini, Jérémiade pour les débris d'étoiles
A partir de la historia de la mayor organización mundial de escritores, PEN International, y de varias trayectorias y movilizaciones de escritores o colectivos indios contemporáneos (el Foro Cultural Indio, Karthika Naïr, Perumal Murugan), este artículo explora algunas modalidades de activismo en la literatura, entendido tanto como activismo a través de la literatura, como activismo al servicio de la misma. En la India, especialmente, el escritor…
When My Own Writing is My Enemy”
Perumal Murugan was born in 1966 into a family of farmers near Tiruchengodu, a temple town in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, which is part of the Kongu Nadu region. That is where much of his fiction is set, and where he continues to live today. Brought up on a farm where he looked after goats and cattle, and raised in a family from which he inherited a whole "legacy of illiteracy" (his words), nothing seemed to have predestined Murugan to b…
Rag-pickers, boxers, dilettantes
This essay examines the intertwined literary and critical trajectories of Amit Chaudhuri and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, two writer-critics and “allies” whose roles in (re)shaping the field of Indian literature today are unparalleled. Framed by Theodor Adorno’s conception of the essay as an anti-dogmatic, experimental form, I read both authors as practitioners of a distinctive form of literary activism, understood as the entanglement between activis…
Art (15 works) · Literature (11 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (11 works) · History (10 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (9 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (9 works) · Poetry (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works)