Sudesh Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sudesh Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sudesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the South Pacific |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Wreck of the Syria , 1884: Naming the Dead
Historians have been unable to name the Indian indentured labourers that went down with the wreck of the Syria in 1884, believing that colonial officials kept no record of the drowned and deceased. As the search for an official list of these Indians is proving to be futile, this article will revisit the departure and arrival documents in the National Archives of Fiji, and using deductive reasoning and a degree of inference, it will shed some ligh…
Reading Commodities: An Introduction
If commodities furnish the backgrounds of literary texts, they are far from trivial details. The cups of tea in Austen, the calico curtains in Gaskell, the lumps of coal in Dickens: each of these objects speaks to us about the material worlds in which texts circulate. While some commodities feature as elements of the setting, included for the purposes of realism, others play a more active role in literary narratives by driving the desires of char…
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
Sugar: Literature’s Bitter, Bitter Commodity
Sugar as an industrial commodity has featured in colonial as well as postcolonial literary texts. On the one hand, it stimulates desire and, on the other, it induces terror and abjection. Its status as an object of desire hinges on colonial modes of surplus accumulation as celebrated by its literary apologists. It serves as the muse of plantation capital precisely because its global demand generates revenue for those invested in the expropriating…
History, Catastrophe, Rhapsody: The Wreck of the Syria
The Global South: Modernity and Exceptionality
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The Leonidas Fijians: A minor history
In Fiji's Indian Migrants, K.L. Gillion remarks en passant on five Fijians who travelled with the first batch of Indian coolies from Calcutta to Fiji in 1879. The men were recruited to work as topazes, or menials answerable to the ship's surgeon, aboard the ship Leonidas, in exchange for a passage home. While Gillion fails to dwell on the presence in Calcutta of these Islanders from the South Seas, his provocative aside troubles the popular view …
Yahoo! Shammi Kapoor and the corporeal stylistics of popular Hindi cinema
The article argues that Shammi Kapoor (1931–2011) revolutionized and forever altered the corporeal stylistic of popular Hindi cinema by breaking away from the soft masculinity of the golden era films. Whereas the golden era films, which were predominantly films of social criticism, put stress on the body as the repository of socio-political values and ethico-economic concerns, Kapoor's dancehall dramas ushered in a new aesthetics of the masculine…
Bending Closer to the Ground: Girmit as Minor History
This essay begins with a set of questions.What happens to indenture history when those subject to its logic describe it from their own perspective by coining a new term?What are we to make of an insane Indian woman whom history notices, and admits into the archive, only because she breaches the mental and spatial regulations of those responsible for making history?Is it possible to grapple with a history where the breaking of wind by a prisoner a…
News from the Crypt: India, Modernity, and the West
Since at least 1947, India's history has been shaped by its encounter with the twin forces of modernity and the West, and popular Hindi cinema has tried to tell the story of this complex history. There are two distinct stages, Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian, to this "culturalist" representation of India's encounter with the West and modernity. Characterized by an alignment with a mixed form of socialist modernity and a rejection of market capital, …
Siding with Things
Diaspora Criticism
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621064); The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This …
The Despatch
Time and Girmit
Research Article| March 01 2005 Time and Girmit Sudesh Mishra Sudesh Mishra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sudesh Mishra; Time and Girmit. Social Text 1 March 2005; 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Download citation file: Zotero R…
Lila
Poem: Page
The Two Chaudhuris: Historical Witness and Pseudo-Historian
Diaspora Criticism
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621064); The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This …
Yahoo! Shammi Kapoor and the corporeal stylistics of popular Hindi cinema
The article argues that Shammi Kapoor (1931–2011) revolutionized and forever altered the corporeal stylistic of popular Hindi cinema by breaking away from the soft masculinity of the golden era films. Whereas the golden era films, which were predominantly films of social criticism, put stress on the body as the repository of socio-political values and ethico-economic concerns, Kapoor's dancehall dramas ushered in a new aesthetics of the masculine…
Time and Girmit
Research Article| March 01 2005 Time and Girmit Sudesh Mishra Sudesh Mishra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sudesh Mishra; Time and Girmit. Social Text 1 March 2005; 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Download citation file: Zotero R…
The Leonidas Fijians: A minor history
In Fiji's Indian Migrants, K.L. Gillion remarks en passant on five Fijians who travelled with the first batch of Indian coolies from Calcutta to Fiji in 1879. The men were recruited to work as topazes, or menials answerable to the ship's surgeon, aboard the ship Leonidas, in exchange for a passage home. While Gillion fails to dwell on the presence in Calcutta of these Islanders from the South Seas, his provocative aside troubles the popular view …
Bending Closer to the Ground: Girmit as Minor History
This essay begins with a set of questions.What happens to indenture history when those subject to its logic describe it from their own perspective by coining a new term?What are we to make of an insane Indian woman whom history notices, and admits into the archive, only because she breaches the mental and spatial regulations of those responsible for making history?Is it possible to grapple with a history where the breaking of wind by a prisoner a…
The Two Chaudhuris: Historical Witness and Pseudo-Historian
Lila
Poem: Page
Time and Girmit
Research Article| March 01 2005 Time and Girmit Sudesh Mishra Sudesh Mishra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sudesh Mishra; Time and Girmit. Social Text 1 March 2005; 23 (1 (82)): 15–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15 Download citation file: Zotero R…
Siding with Things
Diaspora Criticism
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621064); The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This …
The Despatch
News from the Crypt: India, Modernity, and the West
Since at least 1947, India's history has been shaped by its encounter with the twin forces of modernity and the West, and popular Hindi cinema has tried to tell the story of this complex history. There are two distinct stages, Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian, to this "culturalist" representation of India's encounter with the West and modernity. Characterized by an alignment with a mixed form of socialist modernity and a rejection of market capital, …
Yahoo! Shammi Kapoor and the corporeal stylistics of popular Hindi cinema
The article argues that Shammi Kapoor (1931–2011) revolutionized and forever altered the corporeal stylistic of popular Hindi cinema by breaking away from the soft masculinity of the golden era films. Whereas the golden era films, which were predominantly films of social criticism, put stress on the body as the repository of socio-political values and ethico-economic concerns, Kapoor's dancehall dramas ushered in a new aesthetics of the masculine…
Bending Closer to the Ground: Girmit as Minor History
This essay begins with a set of questions.What happens to indenture history when those subject to its logic describe it from their own perspective by coining a new term?What are we to make of an insane Indian woman whom history notices, and admits into the archive, only because she breaches the mental and spatial regulations of those responsible for making history?Is it possible to grapple with a history where the breaking of wind by a prisoner a…
The Leonidas Fijians: A minor history
In Fiji's Indian Migrants, K.L. Gillion remarks en passant on five Fijians who travelled with the first batch of Indian coolies from Calcutta to Fiji in 1879. The men were recruited to work as topazes, or menials answerable to the ship's surgeon, aboard the ship Leonidas, in exchange for a passage home. While Gillion fails to dwell on the presence in Calcutta of these Islanders from the South Seas, his provocative aside troubles the popular view …
The Global South: Modernity and Exceptionality
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Reading Commodities: An Introduction
If commodities furnish the backgrounds of literary texts, they are far from trivial details. The cups of tea in Austen, the calico curtains in Gaskell, the lumps of coal in Dickens: each of these objects speaks to us about the material worlds in which texts circulate. While some commodities feature as elements of the setting, included for the purposes of realism, others play a more active role in literary narratives by driving the desires of char…
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
Sugar: Literature’s Bitter, Bitter Commodity
Sugar as an industrial commodity has featured in colonial as well as postcolonial literary texts. On the one hand, it stimulates desire and, on the other, it induces terror and abjection. Its status as an object of desire hinges on colonial modes of surplus accumulation as celebrated by its literary apologists. It serves as the muse of plantation capital precisely because its global demand generates revenue for those invested in the expropriating…
History, Catastrophe, Rhapsody: The Wreck of the Syria
The Wreck of the Syria , 1884: Naming the Dead
Historians have been unable to name the Indian indentured labourers that went down with the wreck of the Syria in 1884, believing that colonial officials kept no record of the drowned and deceased. As the search for an official list of these Indians is proving to be futile, this article will revisit the departure and arrival documents in the National Archives of Fiji, and using deductive reasoning and a degree of inference, it will shed some ligh…
Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Capital (architecture) (2 works)