Priya Joshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6345264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priya Joshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priya |
| FAMILY NAME | Joshi |
| SIGNATURE | JOSHI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Book History of the Novel
This essay retrofits prevailing theories of the novel by fundamentally expanding their empirical bases. It emerges from the observation that a small handful of novels, comprising a very small handful of forms, from among an even smaller handful of places, has determined both the history and the theory of the novel even as the novel today enjoys a thriving global presence. Against this set of assumptions, this essay asks if a different theory of t…
From Eggshells to Action
India, 1850–1900
The 1970s and its legacies in India's cinemas
From ceiling fans to A/C and juice
Javed Akhtar attended an international workshop on the 1970s and its legacies hosted at Temple University in April 2011, where he held a public conversation with Priya Joshi before an audience of roughly 300 people. A selection of Mr. Akhtar's remarks appears below. Her foundational books, Talking Films (1999) and Talking Songs (2005), invaluably archive Hindi cinema and Javed Akhtar's career in it. Akhtar's memoir, 'About Myself' (2001), offers …
Cinema as family romance
This essay analyses the narratives and iconographies of India embedded in a trilogy of blockbuster Hindi films from the long 1970s: Deewar (1975), Trishul (1978), and Shakti (1982). These films represent some of the decade's aspirations as well as its repressions that together constitute its public fantasies. Their narratives provide access to the political unconscious of modern India revealing the profound anxieties that pervaded the public cult…
Bollylite in America
Slumdog Millionaire's success in the US invites a broader question: have the film's many Bollywood flourishes and references created a wider appetite for its ‘ancestors’ from Bollywood? In addressing the question of Bombay cinema's penetration into the US mainstream, the paper argues that the germane issue is not the influx of Bombay cinema en masse into America's screens but rather the specific forms from Bombay that have captured the interest o…
India, 1850–1900
In Another Country
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the onc…
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In Another Country
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the onc…
India, 1850–1900
Bollylite in America
Slumdog Millionaire's success in the US invites a broader question: have the film's many Bollywood flourishes and references created a wider appetite for its ‘ancestors’ from Bollywood? In addressing the question of Bombay cinema's penetration into the US mainstream, the paper argues that the germane issue is not the influx of Bombay cinema en masse into America's screens but rather the specific forms from Bombay that have captured the interest o…
The 1970s and its legacies in India's cinemas
From ceiling fans to A/C and juice
Javed Akhtar attended an international workshop on the 1970s and its legacies hosted at Temple University in April 2011, where he held a public conversation with Priya Joshi before an audience of roughly 300 people. A selection of Mr. Akhtar's remarks appears below. Her foundational books, Talking Films (1999) and Talking Songs (2005), invaluably archive Hindi cinema and Javed Akhtar's career in it. Akhtar's memoir, 'About Myself' (2001), offers …
Cinema as family romance
This essay analyses the narratives and iconographies of India embedded in a trilogy of blockbuster Hindi films from the long 1970s: Deewar (1975), Trishul (1978), and Shakti (1982). These films represent some of the decade's aspirations as well as its repressions that together constitute its public fantasies. Their narratives provide access to the political unconscious of modern India revealing the profound anxieties that pervaded the public cult…
India, 1850–1900
From Eggshells to Action
A Book History of the Novel
This essay retrofits prevailing theories of the novel by fundamentally expanding their empirical bases. It emerges from the observation that a small handful of novels, comprising a very small handful of forms, from among an even smaller handful of places, has determined both the history and the theory of the novel even as the novel today enjoys a thriving global presence. Against this set of assumptions, this essay asks if a different theory of t…
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