Auritro Majumder
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Auritro Majumder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Auritro |
| FAMILY NAME | Majumder |
| SIGNATURE | MAJUMDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2120-5764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, and the Caribbean, it suggests the centrality of colonial-capitalist empire and global exchanges in the development of major genres of literary fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Illuminating the vital role of cat…
Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
Mahasweta Devi and Indian Literature from Below
This chapter surveys the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi’s influential and less-remarked texts, including her novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Utilizing Sisir Kumar Das’s notion of Indian literature as a dialogic formation, it situates Mahasweta’s retelling of regional, national, and world history—such as her sprawling historical fiction ignored by most critics—with particular attention to literary form and experiments with style and idiom. T…
Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations
Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association
Mikhail Bakhtin
The essay by Craig Brandist confronts those of us engaged in the theoretical humanities with the question of critique. Certainly, the current conjuncture, despite appearances to the contrary, is no
The Literary Lumpen
This essay outlines the condition of emergence of a cultural phenomenon in India which may be called “the literary lumpen.” Karl Marx had, famously, disparaged the “lumpenproletariat” as social “refuse,” which, for him, included such colorful members as “rag pickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars” and numerous other persons incapable of revolutionary class-consciousness. In the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, many participants in in…
Toward a Materialist Critique of the Postnational
This essay contextualizes and provides a materialist critique of the post-national turn in cultural theory by linking it to postcolonialism, post-modernism, poststructuralism, and posthumanism—“post-ality” in short. Drawing from Georg Lukács’s seminal distinction between modernism and realism, I argue that post-al concepts such as postnationalism, with their celebration of the rupture and radical newness supposedly unleashed by capitalist globali…
The Case for Peripheral Aesthetics
Since its 1986 publication, Fredric Jameson’s essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” (TWL) has been widely perceived as the master theorist’s colossal misstep; postcolonial scholars, following the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad, have criticized TWL as a singular intervention that exemplifies metropolitan parochialism about third-world peripheries. Breaking with such consensus, this essay offers a postcolonial–materialis…
Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial
This paper explores the relation between Bengali literature and theories of postcolonialism. Bengali-language literature has been a significant inspiration for South Asian postcolonialist and comparativist concepts in the Anglo-American academy. This paper outlines the key literary figures and genealogies behind the development of postcolonial thought in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Various genres of poetry, drama, and fiction, aesthetic paradigms…
The poetics and politics of blackness
This article explores the role of leftist literary texts in forging transnational black solidarity in India against the grain of nationalist discourse in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. The first section contextualizes transnational blackness in India by analyzing Chanakya Sen’s The Morning After: A Non-Novel Citation[ (1973), which allows for a critical unpacking of the racial hierarchies of brown over black propagated by Indian postcolonial…
Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial
This paper explores the relation between Bengali literature and theories of postcolonialism. Bengali-language literature has been a significant inspiration for South Asian postcolonialist and comparativist concepts in the Anglo-American academy. This paper outlines the key literary figures and genealogies behind the development of postcolonial thought in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Various genres of poetry, drama, and fiction, aesthetic paradigms…
Mikhail Bakhtin
The essay by Craig Brandist confronts those of us engaged in the theoretical humanities with the question of critique. Certainly, the current conjuncture, despite appearances to the contrary, is no
The poetics and politics of blackness
This article explores the role of leftist literary texts in forging transnational black solidarity in India against the grain of nationalist discourse in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. The first section contextualizes transnational blackness in India by analyzing Chanakya Sen’s The Morning After: A Non-Novel Citation[ (1973), which allows for a critical unpacking of the racial hierarchies of brown over black propagated by Indian postcolonial…
The poetics and politics of blackness
This article explores the role of leftist literary texts in forging transnational black solidarity in India against the grain of nationalist discourse in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. The first section contextualizes transnational blackness in India by analyzing Chanakya Sen’s The Morning After: A Non-Novel Citation[ (1973), which allows for a critical unpacking of the racial hierarchies of brown over black propagated by Indian postcolonial…
Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial
This paper explores the relation between Bengali literature and theories of postcolonialism. Bengali-language literature has been a significant inspiration for South Asian postcolonialist and comparativist concepts in the Anglo-American academy. This paper outlines the key literary figures and genealogies behind the development of postcolonial thought in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Various genres of poetry, drama, and fiction, aesthetic paradigms…
The Case for Peripheral Aesthetics
Since its 1986 publication, Fredric Jameson’s essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” (TWL) has been widely perceived as the master theorist’s colossal misstep; postcolonial scholars, following the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad, have criticized TWL as a singular intervention that exemplifies metropolitan parochialism about third-world peripheries. Breaking with such consensus, this essay offers a postcolonial–materialis…
Mikhail Bakhtin
The essay by Craig Brandist confronts those of us engaged in the theoretical humanities with the question of critique. Certainly, the current conjuncture, despite appearances to the contrary, is no
The Literary Lumpen
This essay outlines the condition of emergence of a cultural phenomenon in India which may be called “the literary lumpen.” Karl Marx had, famously, disparaged the “lumpenproletariat” as social “refuse,” which, for him, included such colorful members as “rag pickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars” and numerous other persons incapable of revolutionary class-consciousness. In the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, many participants in in…
Toward a Materialist Critique of the Postnational
This essay contextualizes and provides a materialist critique of the post-national turn in cultural theory by linking it to postcolonialism, post-modernism, poststructuralism, and posthumanism—“post-ality” in short. Drawing from Georg Lukács’s seminal distinction between modernism and realism, I argue that post-al concepts such as postnationalism, with their celebration of the rupture and radical newness supposedly unleashed by capitalist globali…
Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations
Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association
Mahasweta Devi and Indian Literature from Below
This chapter surveys the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi’s influential and less-remarked texts, including her novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Utilizing Sisir Kumar Das’s notion of Indian literature as a dialogic formation, it situates Mahasweta’s retelling of regional, national, and world history—such as her sprawling historical fiction ignored by most critics—with particular attention to literary form and experiments with style and idiom. T…
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, and the Caribbean, it suggests the centrality of colonial-capitalist empire and global exchanges in the development of major genres of literary fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Illuminating the vital role of cat…
Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works)