Anjali Prabhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anjali Prabhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anjali |
| FAMILY NAME | Prabhu |
| SIGNATURE | PRABHU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9899-8746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nigel C. Gibson , Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Mudimbe’s Library
This article reconsiders V.Y. Mudimbe’s contribution to “decolonial” impulses that are central to current preoccupations in fields such as postcolonial studies. It argues that key concepts developed by Mudimbe, such as the “colonial library,” have been overlooked in these discussions. Further, the article provides insight into important aspects of Mudimbe’s thought on the colonial library by reminding readers of the genealogy he excavates in desc…
African cinema in three volumes
French Chivalry in India: The Archival Effect of the Honnête Homme
This essay takes up an eventful moment that occurred in 1740 in the port city of Pondichéry, located on the southeast coast of India. In a battle between the Arcot kingdom and the Marathas, when the Nawab of Arcot was killed, the latter’s wife fled to Pondichéry seeking protection from the allied French governor, Benoît Dumas. Studying an eye-witness account alongside other reports on, or references to, this incident and its context written conte…
Négritude: A passion in Abiola Irele’s work
This essay focuses on Abiola Irele’s passionate and life-long engagement with négritude and the centrality of his thinking and writing about négritude to his œuvre. Using one of Irele’s final lectures, if not the last public lecture he gave, the author, who witnessed the lecture, takes up several moments of that presentation and links them to Irele’s landmark work on négritude, his contributions to scholarship in African literary studies, and his…
Aesthetics in Postcolonial Reading: Cinematic Challenges from Karmen Geï
This article presents the complex pedagogical challenges and triumphs of an experience of teaching “postcolonial film.” It contains a template for teaching undergraduate students both film studies skills and critical skills to tackle postcolonial artistic creation in its widest respective theoretical and historical context. It also suggests ways for nonfilm studies specialists to integrate close study of a film within a course otherwise using tex…
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora
"Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema"
Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory
Book Review| December 01 2011 Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory Figueira, Dorothy M.Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory. State University of New York Press, 2008. 178 pp. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95. Anjali Prabhu Anjali Prabhu Wellesley College Anjali Prabhu is an associate professor of French and Francophone Studies and serves on the Advisory Board of Cinema and Me…
To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual
The half-century, which is the time that has elapsed since the publication of Wretched of the Earth, seems such a short period when one imagines its author in all his intellectual magnificence, his anguish, and the many details we all know of his short-lived reality. Dare one say, after the concept has long been declared “dead” that we imagine him as having been a live “author”? As I write this, the idea of various notable intellectuals and revol…
Of beauty, cosmopolitanism, and history in postcolonial Runion
Sparked off by the revocation of Miss France's crown after compromising photographs of her were found, this article traces how this incident resulted in the foregrounding of the beauty queen's Runionese identity and, with it, the history of her island and its relationship to France. Interrogating simplistic ideas of hybridity as mixing, and showing it to be tied to a politics of action and identity in Runion, this paper draws on previous work on …
Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects
This is a stimulating and important book for anyone interested in the radical potential of the notion of hybridity or m?tissage in its many literal and metaphorical guises, as developed by such figures as Leopold Sedar Senghor in the francophone context and more recently by Homi K. Bhabha in the anglophone world. Anjali Prabhu approaches this body of crosscultural theorizing from an explicitly Marxist perspective, which represents both its streng…
Narration in Frantz Fanon's Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations
Frantz Fanon's writings are evoked in a variety of disciplines where groups of disenfranchised or marginalized peoples can be identified. More recently, his work has spawned discussion of the negotiating between such margins and more centrally identifiable locations of power. Fanon figures prominently in the notion of hybridity as it has been debated in postcolonial studies, particularly as a form of resistance that can be discerned in culture. I…
Reading Calibrations: Re-reading for the Social
In Calibrations, Ato Quayson provides us with a highly stimulating and thoughtprovoking method by which literary aesthetic domain read in order to shed light on larger processes (xv).' Although there some fluidity in direction of this movement of thought, motivating factor, indeed primary interest in aesthetic, to put it to use for an understanding of social, which, for Quayson, should be de-linked from more specific term society. Calibrations in…
Representation in Mauritian politics: Who speaks for African pasts
The island nation of Mauritius is recognized across most disciplines - from anthropology to tourism - as a plural or multi-ethnic country. This essay will show that any attempt to represent the pluralism of Mauritius must contend with the complex history of representation itself within this postcolonial nation. This complexity, in its turn, is bound up with the intersecting histories of the varied immigrant and diasporic populations that make up …
Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory
In this essay, the author presents the Martinican intellectual Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation in a new frame by reading his text as it accomplishes a type of grand-scale theorizing. The notion of Relation in Glissant is followed in its various connections to a Marxian notion of dynamic totality. The Marxian/Hegelian subtext of Poétique is seen as productively revealing for reading Glissant both historically and theoretically. Glissant…
Sisterhood and Rivalry in-between the Shadow and the Sultana: A Problematic of Representation in Ombre sultane
his paper examines narrative tactics in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane, a novel that primarily involves representation of one woman by another. Isma, who recounts story in her role as narrator, creates herself and her husband's second wife, Hajila, through discourse. In analyzing narration, this study examines intersections of forces of desire and power in quest for representation in this novel. It engages prominent readings of Djebar's text to sub…
Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects
This is a stimulating and important book for anyone interested in the radical potential of the notion of hybridity or m?tissage in its many literal and metaphorical guises, as developed by such figures as Leopold Sedar Senghor in the francophone context and more recently by Homi K. Bhabha in the anglophone world. Anjali Prabhu approaches this body of crosscultural theorizing from an explicitly Marxist perspective, which represents both its streng…
Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory
In this essay, the author presents the Martinican intellectual Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation in a new frame by reading his text as it accomplishes a type of grand-scale theorizing. The notion of Relation in Glissant is followed in its various connections to a Marxian notion of dynamic totality. The Marxian/Hegelian subtext of Poétique is seen as productively revealing for reading Glissant both historically and theoretically. Glissant…
To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual
The half-century, which is the time that has elapsed since the publication of Wretched of the Earth, seems such a short period when one imagines its author in all his intellectual magnificence, his anguish, and the many details we all know of his short-lived reality. Dare one say, after the concept has long been declared “dead” that we imagine him as having been a live “author”? As I write this, the idea of various notable intellectuals and revol…
Representation in Mauritian politics: Who speaks for African pasts
The island nation of Mauritius is recognized across most disciplines - from anthropology to tourism - as a plural or multi-ethnic country. This essay will show that any attempt to represent the pluralism of Mauritius must contend with the complex history of representation itself within this postcolonial nation. This complexity, in its turn, is bound up with the intersecting histories of the varied immigrant and diasporic populations that make up …
Négritude: A passion in Abiola Irele’s work
This essay focuses on Abiola Irele’s passionate and life-long engagement with négritude and the centrality of his thinking and writing about négritude to his œuvre. Using one of Irele’s final lectures, if not the last public lecture he gave, the author, who witnessed the lecture, takes up several moments of that presentation and links them to Irele’s landmark work on négritude, his contributions to scholarship in African literary studies, and his…
Of beauty, cosmopolitanism, and history in postcolonial Runion
Sparked off by the revocation of Miss France's crown after compromising photographs of her were found, this article traces how this incident resulted in the foregrounding of the beauty queen's Runionese identity and, with it, the history of her island and its relationship to France. Interrogating simplistic ideas of hybridity as mixing, and showing it to be tied to a politics of action and identity in Runion, this paper draws on previous work on …
Narration in Frantz Fanon's Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations
Frantz Fanon's writings are evoked in a variety of disciplines where groups of disenfranchised or marginalized peoples can be identified. More recently, his work has spawned discussion of the negotiating between such margins and more centrally identifiable locations of power. Fanon figures prominently in the notion of hybridity as it has been debated in postcolonial studies, particularly as a form of resistance that can be discerned in culture. I…
Sisterhood and Rivalry in-between the Shadow and the Sultana: A Problematic of Representation in Ombre sultane
his paper examines narrative tactics in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane, a novel that primarily involves representation of one woman by another. Isma, who recounts story in her role as narrator, creates herself and her husband's second wife, Hajila, through discourse. In analyzing narration, this study examines intersections of forces of desire and power in quest for representation in this novel. It engages prominent readings of Djebar's text to sub…
Reading Calibrations: Re-reading for the Social
In Calibrations, Ato Quayson provides us with a highly stimulating and thoughtprovoking method by which literary aesthetic domain read in order to shed light on larger processes (xv).' Although there some fluidity in direction of this movement of thought, motivating factor, indeed primary interest in aesthetic, to put it to use for an understanding of social, which, for Quayson, should be de-linked from more specific term society. Calibrations in…
Representation in Mauritian politics: Who speaks for African pasts
The island nation of Mauritius is recognized across most disciplines - from anthropology to tourism - as a plural or multi-ethnic country. This essay will show that any attempt to represent the pluralism of Mauritius must contend with the complex history of representation itself within this postcolonial nation. This complexity, in its turn, is bound up with the intersecting histories of the varied immigrant and diasporic populations that make up …
Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory
In this essay, the author presents the Martinican intellectual Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation in a new frame by reading his text as it accomplishes a type of grand-scale theorizing. The notion of Relation in Glissant is followed in its various connections to a Marxian notion of dynamic totality. The Marxian/Hegelian subtext of Poétique is seen as productively revealing for reading Glissant both historically and theoretically. Glissant…
Narration in Frantz Fanon's Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations
Frantz Fanon's writings are evoked in a variety of disciplines where groups of disenfranchised or marginalized peoples can be identified. More recently, his work has spawned discussion of the negotiating between such margins and more centrally identifiable locations of power. Fanon figures prominently in the notion of hybridity as it has been debated in postcolonial studies, particularly as a form of resistance that can be discerned in culture. I…
Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects
This is a stimulating and important book for anyone interested in the radical potential of the notion of hybridity or m?tissage in its many literal and metaphorical guises, as developed by such figures as Leopold Sedar Senghor in the francophone context and more recently by Homi K. Bhabha in the anglophone world. Anjali Prabhu approaches this body of crosscultural theorizing from an explicitly Marxist perspective, which represents both its streng…
Of beauty, cosmopolitanism, and history in postcolonial Runion
Sparked off by the revocation of Miss France's crown after compromising photographs of her were found, this article traces how this incident resulted in the foregrounding of the beauty queen's Runionese identity and, with it, the history of her island and its relationship to France. Interrogating simplistic ideas of hybridity as mixing, and showing it to be tied to a politics of action and identity in Runion, this paper draws on previous work on …
Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory
Book Review| December 01 2011 Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory Figueira, Dorothy M.Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory. State University of New York Press, 2008. 178 pp. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95. Anjali Prabhu Anjali Prabhu Wellesley College Anjali Prabhu is an associate professor of French and Francophone Studies and serves on the Advisory Board of Cinema and Me…
To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual
The half-century, which is the time that has elapsed since the publication of Wretched of the Earth, seems such a short period when one imagines its author in all his intellectual magnificence, his anguish, and the many details we all know of his short-lived reality. Dare one say, after the concept has long been declared “dead” that we imagine him as having been a live “author”? As I write this, the idea of various notable intellectuals and revol…
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora
"Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema"
Aesthetics in Postcolonial Reading: Cinematic Challenges from Karmen Geï
This article presents the complex pedagogical challenges and triumphs of an experience of teaching “postcolonial film.” It contains a template for teaching undergraduate students both film studies skills and critical skills to tackle postcolonial artistic creation in its widest respective theoretical and historical context. It also suggests ways for nonfilm studies specialists to integrate close study of a film within a course otherwise using tex…
Négritude: A passion in Abiola Irele’s work
This essay focuses on Abiola Irele’s passionate and life-long engagement with négritude and the centrality of his thinking and writing about négritude to his œuvre. Using one of Irele’s final lectures, if not the last public lecture he gave, the author, who witnessed the lecture, takes up several moments of that presentation and links them to Irele’s landmark work on négritude, his contributions to scholarship in African literary studies, and his…
African cinema in three volumes
French Chivalry in India: The Archival Effect of the Honnête Homme
This essay takes up an eventful moment that occurred in 1740 in the port city of Pondichéry, located on the southeast coast of India. In a battle between the Arcot kingdom and the Marathas, when the Nawab of Arcot was killed, the latter’s wife fled to Pondichéry seeking protection from the allied French governor, Benoît Dumas. Studying an eye-witness account alongside other reports on, or references to, this incident and its context written conte…
Mudimbe’s Library
This article reconsiders V.Y. Mudimbe’s contribution to “decolonial” impulses that are central to current preoccupations in fields such as postcolonial studies. It argues that key concepts developed by Mudimbe, such as the “colonial library,” have been overlooked in these discussions. Further, the article provides insight into important aspects of Mudimbe’s thought on the colonial library by reminding readers of the genealogy he excavates in desc…
Nigel C. Gibson , Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
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