Swaralipi Nandi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swaralipi Nandi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swaralipi |
| FAMILY NAME | Nandi |
| SIGNATURE | NANDI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5057-4588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity
Recent scholarship on world literature has called for an increased focus on asymmetries of materialist conditions. This article considers “world ecological literature” with a focus on the capitalist world-systems and colonial energy extraction. It invokes Imre Szeman’s periodization of culture according to the use of energy resources to acknowledge the immense global impact of fossil fuels and examine Shailajananda Mukhopadyay’s 1934 Bengali coll…
Delineating Delhi
Recent Indo-Anglican literature has also seen a burgeoning of the genre of urban crime fictions set against the backdrop of India’s modernizing metropolises. While explorations of the contemporary Indian city mostly consists of non-fictional, journalistic writings, like Katherine Boo’s Pulitzer winning book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City, the genre also includes fictions like Alta…
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger Swaralipi Nandi (bio) Almost signed off in the era of late modernity, the genre of the Bildungsroman has resurged to new prominence in the contemporary scene of neoliberalism. Novels like Peter Mountford's A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars, Hamid Mohsin's How to be Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc., Ar…
When the clown laughs back
Though moving across borders is a common phenomenon in the contemporary globalised world, travel writing as a genre has still retained its significance as well as some of its traits from its colonial predecessors. Thus, while many “Western” travelogues in non-Western destinations still narrate the non-west as exotic, dangerous and often ludicrous, the non-Western traveller's visit to a Western land is often accompanied by a sense of pride, privil…
Reconstructing the Contested Past
Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire (originally ‘Aag Ka Darya’) is an astounding work spanning over 2,500 years of Indian history through a plethora of multifarious characters. While the work has been hailed as one of the best novels not only in Urdu but also in the entire gamut of South Asian literature, surprisingly it has received very minimal critical attention. However, it generated controversy in Pakistan for its highlighting of the composite…
The Postnational Fantasy
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy st…
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger Swaralipi Nandi (bio) Almost signed off in the era of late modernity, the genre of the Bildungsroman has resurged to new prominence in the contemporary scene of neoliberalism. Novels like Peter Mountford's A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars, Hamid Mohsin's How to be Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc., Ar…
The Postnational Fantasy
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy st…
Reconstructing the Contested Past
Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire (originally ‘Aag Ka Darya’) is an astounding work spanning over 2,500 years of Indian history through a plethora of multifarious characters. While the work has been hailed as one of the best novels not only in Urdu but also in the entire gamut of South Asian literature, surprisingly it has received very minimal critical attention. However, it generated controversy in Pakistan for its highlighting of the composite…
When the clown laughs back
Though moving across borders is a common phenomenon in the contemporary globalised world, travel writing as a genre has still retained its significance as well as some of its traits from its colonial predecessors. Thus, while many “Western” travelogues in non-Western destinations still narrate the non-west as exotic, dangerous and often ludicrous, the non-Western traveller's visit to a Western land is often accompanied by a sense of pride, privil…
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger Swaralipi Nandi (bio) Almost signed off in the era of late modernity, the genre of the Bildungsroman has resurged to new prominence in the contemporary scene of neoliberalism. Novels like Peter Mountford's A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars, Hamid Mohsin's How to be Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc., Ar…
Delineating Delhi
Recent Indo-Anglican literature has also seen a burgeoning of the genre of urban crime fictions set against the backdrop of India’s modernizing metropolises. While explorations of the contemporary Indian city mostly consists of non-fictional, journalistic writings, like Katherine Boo’s Pulitzer winning book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City, the genre also includes fictions like Alta…
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity
Recent scholarship on world literature has called for an increased focus on asymmetries of materialist conditions. This article considers “world ecological literature” with a focus on the capitalist world-systems and colonial energy extraction. It invokes Imre Szeman’s periodization of culture according to the use of energy resources to acknowledge the immense global impact of fossil fuels and examine Shailajananda Mukhopadyay’s 1934 Bengali coll…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)