G S Sahota
Biographic Data
| ID | 3881019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G S Sahota |
| GIVEN NAMES | G S |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahota |
| SIGNATURE | SAHOTA G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sikh scripture, German orientalism, and the predicaments of mistranslation
Inter-Oceanic Studies as Cosmopolitan Horizon
Minor philology
This small aphoristic intervention aims to slightly shift fundamental concepts, canons, methods, and attitudes in the reemerging field of philology from the perspective of marginalized minority experience. Prompted by Tocqueville's formulations regarding the 'tyranny of the majority,' these aphorisms equate the tactics of minor philology with those of guerilla warfare. The emphasis on mobility, commitment, and integration with larger currents has…
Some Soprano lessons
What does the mass cultural phenomenon The Sopranos have to suggest for diasporic criticism? A great deal, claims this essay. Through thick descriptions and critical analyses of marginalized presences in the television series, this essay zeroes in on the phenomenology of absence, the complicated connections between racial stereotypes and the culture industry, and the morbid political impasses of late capitalist culture
Cosmopolitanism, millenarianism, and Sikhism in a Persianate India
This article, divided into two parts, explores the ramifications of Eaton's India in the Persianate Age for salient topics in Sikh historiography. The first part defines Eaton's arguments and expands on facets of the Persianate dispensation, drawing out relevant features of his biography and previous works. Secularity and universality as well as the approaches adopted to break from reified notions of religious community are underscored. The secon…
Identifying Khizr
Through an analysis of the legendary Islamic figure Khizr in the works of Norman O. Brown, Muhammad Iqbal, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, this essay proposes world literature as a methodology for deriving possible alternatives to existing worlds. By tracing the dialectic of individual and collective selfhood in the figure of Khizr, the author delineates the fault lines that the encounter with this elusive figure portends for bourgeois imperialist re…
Reading with the Runaways, or namesakes in diaspora on Sunjeev Sahota’s the year of the Runaways
Through a series of fragments, vignettes, and a montage, this essay explores the underlying crises of contemporary capitalism and the nation-state as presented in Sunjeev Sahota's 2015 novel The Year of the Runaways. The essay examines the novel's innovative Anglo-Punjabi diglossia as an index of social contradiction and political crisis in the wake of immigration and nationalist reaction in the U.K. It lays out as well the competing pressures th…
Uncanny affinities
This essay is an indirect meditation on Benjamin's understanding that the ‘past carries with it a secret index by which it is referred to redemption’. By revealing the entanglement of visions of Islam in Goethe, late romanticism in Iqbal, and the elaboration of critiques of modernity across the metropolitan-colonial divide, the translator's preface delineates the shape of postcolonial possibilities embedded in dead futures. Iqbal's Urdu preface t…
Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology
By the early sixteenth century, the conditions for a radical reorientation of Indic and Islamic religiosity and sociality had begun to crystallize with the simultaneous resurgence of antinomian rationalism and the expansion of mercantile capitalism across northern India. Combining insights about these dual processes, Guru Nanak formulated discursive and practical strategies for overcoming the social illusion of egoistic selfhood determined by the…
Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology
By the early sixteenth century, the conditions for a radical reorientation of Indic and Islamic religiosity and sociality had begun to crystallize with the simultaneous resurgence of antinomian rationalism and the expansion of mercantile capitalism across northern India. Combining insights about these dual processes, Guru Nanak formulated discursive and practical strategies for overcoming the social illusion of egoistic selfhood determined by the…
Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology
By the early sixteenth century, the conditions for a radical reorientation of Indic and Islamic religiosity and sociality had begun to crystallize with the simultaneous resurgence of antinomian rationalism and the expansion of mercantile capitalism across northern India. Combining insights about these dual processes, Guru Nanak formulated discursive and practical strategies for overcoming the social illusion of egoistic selfhood determined by the…
Uncanny affinities
This essay is an indirect meditation on Benjamin's understanding that the ‘past carries with it a secret index by which it is referred to redemption’. By revealing the entanglement of visions of Islam in Goethe, late romanticism in Iqbal, and the elaboration of critiques of modernity across the metropolitan-colonial divide, the translator's preface delineates the shape of postcolonial possibilities embedded in dead futures. Iqbal's Urdu preface t…
Reading with the Runaways, or namesakes in diaspora on Sunjeev Sahota’s the year of the Runaways
Through a series of fragments, vignettes, and a montage, this essay explores the underlying crises of contemporary capitalism and the nation-state as presented in Sunjeev Sahota's 2015 novel The Year of the Runaways. The essay examines the novel's innovative Anglo-Punjabi diglossia as an index of social contradiction and political crisis in the wake of immigration and nationalist reaction in the U.K. It lays out as well the competing pressures th…
Identifying Khizr
Through an analysis of the legendary Islamic figure Khizr in the works of Norman O. Brown, Muhammad Iqbal, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, this essay proposes world literature as a methodology for deriving possible alternatives to existing worlds. By tracing the dialectic of individual and collective selfhood in the figure of Khizr, the author delineates the fault lines that the encounter with this elusive figure portends for bourgeois imperialist re…
Some Soprano lessons
What does the mass cultural phenomenon The Sopranos have to suggest for diasporic criticism? A great deal, claims this essay. Through thick descriptions and critical analyses of marginalized presences in the television series, this essay zeroes in on the phenomenology of absence, the complicated connections between racial stereotypes and the culture industry, and the morbid political impasses of late capitalist culture
Cosmopolitanism, millenarianism, and Sikhism in a Persianate India
This article, divided into two parts, explores the ramifications of Eaton's India in the Persianate Age for salient topics in Sikh historiography. The first part defines Eaton's arguments and expands on facets of the Persianate dispensation, drawing out relevant features of his biography and previous works. Secularity and universality as well as the approaches adopted to break from reified notions of religious community are underscored. The secon…
Minor philology
This small aphoristic intervention aims to slightly shift fundamental concepts, canons, methods, and attitudes in the reemerging field of philology from the perspective of marginalized minority experience. Prompted by Tocqueville's formulations regarding the 'tyranny of the majority,' these aphorisms equate the tactics of minor philology with those of guerilla warfare. The emphasis on mobility, commitment, and integration with larger currents has…
Sikh scripture, German orientalism, and the predicaments of mistranslation
Inter-Oceanic Studies as Cosmopolitan Horizon
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