Laura Brueck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Brueck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Brueck |
| SIGNATURE | BRUECK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature
The Problem with Ideologyan Interview with Chris Abani
In this interview, the acclaimed novelist and poet Chris Abani evaluates the current state of postcolonial scholarship. He suggests that while once it provided a critical intervention that shaped his own career as a writer and a scholar, it has in recent years hardened into an ideology that ceases to become a field of exploration and instead becomes a kind of script, or scripture, that must be defended. He goes on to offer some suggestions for a …
Translation/Adaptation
This chapter considers multiple iterations of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi: in dozens of mid-century Bengali novellas by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, in a popular Doordarshan television serial in the 1990s, and in a big-budget Bollywood blockbuster in 2015. Together, these various versions of Byomkesh create an evolving storyworld where Byomkesh grows from a local, vernacular, hometown hero, to a beloved pan-Indian icon, to an international…
Bhais behaving badly
This article considers some of the novels of towering modern Hindi language detective novelists Ved Prakash Sharma and Surender Mohan Pathak. The articulation of masculinity that each novelist proffers through their plots and characters is considered within a nuanced context of popular detective novel traditions in other languages in India as well as the various paratexts of the novels themselves (covers, authors' notes etc.) This article ultimat…
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular
This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations, that redraw the boundaries of literary histories both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The essays and translations foreground …
Mother Tongues—the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars
This essay considers the methodological intervention of understanding a ‘mother tongue’ (matribhasha) as a gendered vernacular. It seeks to illustrate the subversive potential of the vernacular as a gendered lens though which we can understand the Dalit feminist critiques of caste hierarchies and Dalit and non-Dalit patriarchies, and the places they intersect. The essay considers the works of Anita Bharti and Meena Kandasamy, contemporary Dalit w…
Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography
This article will consider two Hindi-language autobiographies by Dalit women, to explain how we can emphasize the collective, relational, and specifically gendered character of Dalit women’s life writing without simplistically categorizing them as testimonio, “witnessing”. Nor should we over-privilege their gendered specificity, thereby effacing the very real narrative authority, purposefulness, and perspectival control of their authors. Instead,…
Bending Biography
This paper focuses on the writings of Uday Prakash and Ajay Navaria, both Delhi-based Hindi-language authors whose literary work focuses on the dynamics of caste in contemporary India, to consider each author's innovative use of metafictional narrative techniques to blur the boundaries between "real" and fictional life narratives. I argue that reading these texts through the critical lens of postrealism allows us to reconsider the apparently arbi…
Good Dalits and Bad Brahmins
This article examines the literary strategies that shape contemporary Dalit fictional prose in Hindi. Based on the analysis of two short stories by the prolific Dalit writers Omprakash Valmiki and Jaiprakash Kardam, it is argued that the contributions of Dalit literature arise today not only in the context of a social movement, but are increasingly apparent through the development of a new, hybrid melodramatic–realist literary aesthetic. New crit…
Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography
This article will consider two Hindi-language autobiographies by Dalit women, to explain how we can emphasize the collective, relational, and specifically gendered character of Dalit women’s life writing without simplistically categorizing them as testimonio, “witnessing”. Nor should we over-privilege their gendered specificity, thereby effacing the very real narrative authority, purposefulness, and perspectival control of their authors. Instead,…
Good Dalits and Bad Brahmins
This article examines the literary strategies that shape contemporary Dalit fictional prose in Hindi. Based on the analysis of two short stories by the prolific Dalit writers Omprakash Valmiki and Jaiprakash Kardam, it is argued that the contributions of Dalit literature arise today not only in the context of a social movement, but are increasingly apparent through the development of a new, hybrid melodramatic–realist literary aesthetic. New crit…
Good Dalits and Bad Brahmins
This article examines the literary strategies that shape contemporary Dalit fictional prose in Hindi. Based on the analysis of two short stories by the prolific Dalit writers Omprakash Valmiki and Jaiprakash Kardam, it is argued that the contributions of Dalit literature arise today not only in the context of a social movement, but are increasingly apparent through the development of a new, hybrid melodramatic–realist literary aesthetic. New crit…
Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography
This article will consider two Hindi-language autobiographies by Dalit women, to explain how we can emphasize the collective, relational, and specifically gendered character of Dalit women’s life writing without simplistically categorizing them as testimonio, “witnessing”. Nor should we over-privilege their gendered specificity, thereby effacing the very real narrative authority, purposefulness, and perspectival control of their authors. Instead,…
Bending Biography
This paper focuses on the writings of Uday Prakash and Ajay Navaria, both Delhi-based Hindi-language authors whose literary work focuses on the dynamics of caste in contemporary India, to consider each author's innovative use of metafictional narrative techniques to blur the boundaries between "real" and fictional life narratives. I argue that reading these texts through the critical lens of postrealism allows us to reconsider the apparently arbi…
Bhais behaving badly
This article considers some of the novels of towering modern Hindi language detective novelists Ved Prakash Sharma and Surender Mohan Pathak. The articulation of masculinity that each novelist proffers through their plots and characters is considered within a nuanced context of popular detective novel traditions in other languages in India as well as the various paratexts of the novels themselves (covers, authors' notes etc.) This article ultimat…
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular
This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations, that redraw the boundaries of literary histories both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The essays and translations foreground …
Mother Tongues—the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars
This essay considers the methodological intervention of understanding a ‘mother tongue’ (matribhasha) as a gendered vernacular. It seeks to illustrate the subversive potential of the vernacular as a gendered lens though which we can understand the Dalit feminist critiques of caste hierarchies and Dalit and non-Dalit patriarchies, and the places they intersect. The essay considers the works of Anita Bharti and Meena Kandasamy, contemporary Dalit w…
Translation/Adaptation
This chapter considers multiple iterations of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi: in dozens of mid-century Bengali novellas by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, in a popular Doordarshan television serial in the 1990s, and in a big-budget Bollywood blockbuster in 2015. Together, these various versions of Byomkesh create an evolving storyworld where Byomkesh grows from a local, vernacular, hometown hero, to a beloved pan-Indian icon, to an international…
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature
The Problem with Ideologyan Interview with Chris Abani
In this interview, the acclaimed novelist and poet Chris Abani evaluates the current state of postcolonial scholarship. He suggests that while once it provided a critical intervention that shaped his own career as a writer and a scholar, it has in recent years hardened into an ideology that ceases to become a field of exploration and instead becomes a kind of script, or scripture, that must be defended. He goes on to offer some suggestions for a …
Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Hindi (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)