Ruchi Mundeja
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruchi Mundeja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruchi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mundeja |
| SIGNATURE | MUNDEJA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5553-7644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jean Rhys’s Cocktails and the Blurring of Literary Meridians
We are at a point in literary studies where the meridian has begun to insistently make its presence felt. But at the same time, we are approaching the field through a miscegenated lens. This essay is about mixtures and the blurring of chronologies these effect in the realm of literary studies. Both modernism and new modernist studies draw on the stimulus provided by intermixtures. One glance at our recent compendium of terms: creolity, métissage,…
Always half-and-half’
From the initial years when criticism on the writer Jean Rhys largely circled around Wide Sargasso Sea to an interest in her other novels growing since then, Rhys’s short stories have evoked comparatively scant critical interest. Yet the thematic concerns in her short stories contribute as vitally to the writer’s continuing close scrutiny of coloniality as her novels do. In this article, it is the criss-cross traffic of imperialist voyages that i…
Beyond taxonomies
This article takes the current transnational turn in modernist studies as entry point to probe how that plays out in the classroom in non‐Western locations that are often also the “locales” of that disciplinary shift. I propose a waylaying of the energies of dispersion and diffusion that currently animate the modernist field to decolonize the modernist classroom through a parallel vagrancy, but one focused on recovering the local from these compe…
Writing spaces
Eliza Hannay, Robin Hyde’s protagonist in The Godwits Fly, finds the muse in the bottom hold of a boat. Taking a cue from that atypical location, this essay spotlights Hyde’s own edgy positionality as a colonial New Zealand writer to focus on the twin implications of the title phrase “Writing Spaces” – the spaces associated often with women’s writing, clandestine, underground, peripheralized, probed here in their most material manifestations – th…
Worlding Appetite
As a sceptical re-engagement with recent criticism's ingestive incorporation of canonical modernists into a postcolonial frame, this essay's focus on ingestive moments in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a useful entry point into exploring the connection between a devouring colonialism and a consuming modernism. The modernist savouring of the new intersects disturbingly with colonialism's brutal practices of ingestion, if Heart of Darkness be…
Rooms Not Quite Their Own
Rooms Not Quite Their Own:Two Colonial Itinerants, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Roomlessness Ruchi Mundeja (bio) After all books and plays are written some time, some place by some person affected by that time, that place, the clothes he sees and wears, other books, the air and the room and every damned thing. (Wyndham and Melly 101; emphasis added) In 1910, a pamphlet written by Mary Higgs and Edward E. Hayward and commis…
Always half-and-half’
From the initial years when criticism on the writer Jean Rhys largely circled around Wide Sargasso Sea to an interest in her other novels growing since then, Rhys’s short stories have evoked comparatively scant critical interest. Yet the thematic concerns in her short stories contribute as vitally to the writer’s continuing close scrutiny of coloniality as her novels do. In this article, it is the criss-cross traffic of imperialist voyages that i…
Rooms Not Quite Their Own
Rooms Not Quite Their Own:Two Colonial Itinerants, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Roomlessness Ruchi Mundeja (bio) After all books and plays are written some time, some place by some person affected by that time, that place, the clothes he sees and wears, other books, the air and the room and every damned thing. (Wyndham and Melly 101; emphasis added) In 1910, a pamphlet written by Mary Higgs and Edward E. Hayward and commis…
Rooms Not Quite Their Own
Rooms Not Quite Their Own:Two Colonial Itinerants, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Roomlessness Ruchi Mundeja (bio) After all books and plays are written some time, some place by some person affected by that time, that place, the clothes he sees and wears, other books, the air and the room and every damned thing. (Wyndham and Melly 101; emphasis added) In 1910, a pamphlet written by Mary Higgs and Edward E. Hayward and commis…
Worlding Appetite
As a sceptical re-engagement with recent criticism's ingestive incorporation of canonical modernists into a postcolonial frame, this essay's focus on ingestive moments in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a useful entry point into exploring the connection between a devouring colonialism and a consuming modernism. The modernist savouring of the new intersects disturbingly with colonialism's brutal practices of ingestion, if Heart of Darkness be…
Writing spaces
Eliza Hannay, Robin Hyde’s protagonist in The Godwits Fly, finds the muse in the bottom hold of a boat. Taking a cue from that atypical location, this essay spotlights Hyde’s own edgy positionality as a colonial New Zealand writer to focus on the twin implications of the title phrase “Writing Spaces” – the spaces associated often with women’s writing, clandestine, underground, peripheralized, probed here in their most material manifestations – th…
Jean Rhys’s Cocktails and the Blurring of Literary Meridians
We are at a point in literary studies where the meridian has begun to insistently make its presence felt. But at the same time, we are approaching the field through a miscegenated lens. This essay is about mixtures and the blurring of chronologies these effect in the realm of literary studies. Both modernism and new modernist studies draw on the stimulus provided by intermixtures. One glance at our recent compendium of terms: creolity, métissage,…
Always half-and-half’
From the initial years when criticism on the writer Jean Rhys largely circled around Wide Sargasso Sea to an interest in her other novels growing since then, Rhys’s short stories have evoked comparatively scant critical interest. Yet the thematic concerns in her short stories contribute as vitally to the writer’s continuing close scrutiny of coloniality as her novels do. In this article, it is the criss-cross traffic of imperialist voyages that i…
Beyond taxonomies
This article takes the current transnational turn in modernist studies as entry point to probe how that plays out in the classroom in non‐Western locations that are often also the “locales” of that disciplinary shift. I propose a waylaying of the energies of dispersion and diffusion that currently animate the modernist field to decolonize the modernist classroom through a parallel vagrancy, but one focused on recovering the local from these compe…
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