Rajender Kaur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajender Kaur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajender |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaur |
| SIGNATURE | KAUR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“A Western Outpost of the Punjab”
By forcefully inserting itself within the landscape and history of California, “near the confluence of the Feather and Sacramento rivers” in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Bhira Backhaus’s Under the Lemon Trees (2009) moves beyond the common tropes of Asian American fictions in which memory is invoked primarily in terms of nostalgia or loss, to emplace itself within the very specific geographical locale and physical landscape of th…
Transatlantic itinerants and hustlers
A reading of Bartholomew Burges' Indostan Letters (1790), a little known early transatlantic text addressed to patrons both in Britain and America, goes far in illuminating the "connected histories" of India and the United States facilitated by the maritime circuits of the transatlantic. A remarkable travelogue, Indostan Letters foregrounds the triangulated relationship between India, the United States, and Britain which would come to exercise an…
Excerpt from India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, p…
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
The Curious Case of Sick Keesar
This article is part of a larger monograph on India in the American imaginary that seeks to trace Indo-American interactions as mediated by the triangulated relationship between India, Britain, and the US. In this article I perform a symptomatic reading of a petition for redress by a Bengali lascar, Sick Keesar, to Benjamin Franklin in 1785. Whilst most scholarship on lascars and their integral role in the transoceanic trade in the late eighteent…
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Mulk Raj Anand. The Trilogy comprising The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle
(2016). Mulk Raj Anand. The Trilogy comprising The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, The Miscellany, pp. 162-165
The vexed question of peasant passivity
There were few food riots during the Bengal famine of 1943; the reason for this passivity has often been the subject of scholarly debate, and is the central dilemma in many literary representations of the famine. Despite the radical sensibility of many of the writers of the Progressive Writers’ Association, their representation of peasant resistance is ambivalent, and muted by the competing allegiances within nationalist discourse at the time. At…
The Komagata Maru in history and literary narrative
Lately, the disastrous voyage of the Komagata Maru seems to have achieved critical mass in the collective unconscious of South Asian immigrants and has emerged at the forefront of literary and film representations. What is the significance of such an infamous incident as the Komagata Maru? How does it get represented? Who makes the claim to speak on behalf of its beleaguered passengers? This article examines the complex host of intersecting disco…
Realism, Indian Literature, and World Literature
Truly, the broad scope and thought-provoking depth of Satya Mohanty's reflections on realism, Indian literature and World literature can be gauged by the astonishing range of literary, philosophical, and cultural writers and references he puts in conversation with each other to illuminate fresh insights and interconnections between seemingly disparate yet deeply intertwined literary traditions, which have yet to be mined by scholars and students …
Realism, Indian Literature, and World Literature
Organized as an extended dialogue, this interview with Satya P. Mohanty explains the relationship between philosophical realism and literary realism, and examines the implications of this relationship for South Asian literary studies. It argues for a critical approach to Indian literature that is genuinely comparative and that goes beyond regional insularity as well as cultural chauvinism. Focusing on the need for a democratized literary criticis…
South Asian Realisms and Its Futures
Guest Editor's Column
Beyond “Aitch(indus)es and Em(uslim)s”
(2009). Beyond “Aitch(indus)es and Em(uslim)s”: Debating Secularism in Mariam Karim's My Little Boat and Githa Hariharan's In Times of Siege. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 48-64
The Komagata Maru in history and literary narrative
Lately, the disastrous voyage of the Komagata Maru seems to have achieved critical mass in the collective unconscious of South Asian immigrants and has emerged at the forefront of literary and film representations. What is the significance of such an infamous incident as the Komagata Maru? How does it get represented? Who makes the claim to speak on behalf of its beleaguered passengers? This article examines the complex host of intersecting disco…
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
The vexed question of peasant passivity
There were few food riots during the Bengal famine of 1943; the reason for this passivity has often been the subject of scholarly debate, and is the central dilemma in many literary representations of the famine. Despite the radical sensibility of many of the writers of the Progressive Writers’ Association, their representation of peasant resistance is ambivalent, and muted by the competing allegiances within nationalist discourse at the time. At…
Guest Editor's Column
Beyond “Aitch(indus)es and Em(uslim)s”
(2009). Beyond “Aitch(indus)es and Em(uslim)s”: Debating Secularism in Mariam Karim's My Little Boat and Githa Hariharan's In Times of Siege. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 48-64
Realism, Indian Literature, and World Literature
Truly, the broad scope and thought-provoking depth of Satya Mohanty's reflections on realism, Indian literature and World literature can be gauged by the astonishing range of literary, philosophical, and cultural writers and references he puts in conversation with each other to illuminate fresh insights and interconnections between seemingly disparate yet deeply intertwined literary traditions, which have yet to be mined by scholars and students …
Realism, Indian Literature, and World Literature
Organized as an extended dialogue, this interview with Satya P. Mohanty explains the relationship between philosophical realism and literary realism, and examines the implications of this relationship for South Asian literary studies. It argues for a critical approach to Indian literature that is genuinely comparative and that goes beyond regional insularity as well as cultural chauvinism. Focusing on the need for a democratized literary criticis…
South Asian Realisms and Its Futures
The Komagata Maru in history and literary narrative
Lately, the disastrous voyage of the Komagata Maru seems to have achieved critical mass in the collective unconscious of South Asian immigrants and has emerged at the forefront of literary and film representations. What is the significance of such an infamous incident as the Komagata Maru? How does it get represented? Who makes the claim to speak on behalf of its beleaguered passengers? This article examines the complex host of intersecting disco…
The vexed question of peasant passivity
There were few food riots during the Bengal famine of 1943; the reason for this passivity has often been the subject of scholarly debate, and is the central dilemma in many literary representations of the famine. Despite the radical sensibility of many of the writers of the Progressive Writers’ Association, their representation of peasant resistance is ambivalent, and muted by the competing allegiances within nationalist discourse at the time. At…
Mulk Raj Anand. The Trilogy comprising The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle
(2016). Mulk Raj Anand. The Trilogy comprising The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, The Miscellany, pp. 162-165
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
The Curious Case of Sick Keesar
This article is part of a larger monograph on India in the American imaginary that seeks to trace Indo-American interactions as mediated by the triangulated relationship between India, Britain, and the US. In this article I perform a symptomatic reading of a petition for redress by a Bengali lascar, Sick Keesar, to Benjamin Franklin in 1785. Whilst most scholarship on lascars and their integral role in the transoceanic trade in the late eighteent…
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Excerpt from India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, p…
“A Western Outpost of the Punjab”
By forcefully inserting itself within the landscape and history of California, “near the confluence of the Feather and Sacramento rivers” in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Bhira Backhaus’s Under the Lemon Trees (2009) moves beyond the common tropes of Asian American fictions in which memory is invoked primarily in terms of nostalgia or loss, to emplace itself within the very specific geographical locale and physical landscape of th…
Transatlantic itinerants and hustlers
A reading of Bartholomew Burges' Indostan Letters (1790), a little known early transatlantic text addressed to patrons both in Britain and America, goes far in illuminating the "connected histories" of India and the United States facilitated by the maritime circuits of the transatlantic. A remarkable travelogue, Indostan Letters foregrounds the triangulated relationship between India, the United States, and Britain which would come to exercise an…
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