Jill Didur
Biographic Data
| ID | 640184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Didur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Didur |
| SIGNATURE | DIDUR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud
This article turns to Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud (1937) to better map the dynamics of the Plantation (ocene) within the history of the colonial tea industry in India. Drawing on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, Kathryn Yusoff and Ian Baucom, I argue that Anand's novel provides an 'alterglobal' inroad into the world of the tea plantation as a site where the 'biocentric subject' and the racialized Other are co-implicated …
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan Part I: Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations 1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment David Arnold 2. The Perverse Little People of the Hills: Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer's Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur 3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the…
Guns & Roses: Reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai'sFire on the Mountain
This essay argues that the picturesque gaze associated with Indian hill stations obscures how the colonial practice of ‘retreating to the hills’ was also predicated on a form of appropriation, commodification, and instrumentalization of land and the environment. Hill stations were a creation of the British Raj and imagined as Edenic spaces for settlement and escape from the heat of the plains and Indian culture. Written and visual accounts of col…
Cultivating Community
This chapter offers a reading of Kiran Desai’s 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss and examines its depiction of the Himalayan environment. It examines how colonial representations of the British “hill stations” of the Himalayas as Gardens of Eden are transformed by Desai in her novel to provide a “counterlandscaping” of colonial fantasies as well as the separatist demands of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). It also describes the queer…
Strange Joy: Plant-hunting and Responsibility in Jamaica Kincaid's (Post)colonial Travel Writing
This article explores how Kincaid's aesthetic practice in her gardening, plant-hunting and travel writing is informed by an ‘ethical singularity’ that Gayatri Spivak describes elsewhere as open to ‘the possibility of constructing a new type of responsibility for the cultural worker’. Where Kincaid's text might simply be read as an account of a diasporic subject claiming an equivalency between her own experience of colonialism and the experience o…
An Unremembered Time”: Secular Criticism in Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics
In Pankaj Mishra's novel, The Romantics, Samar writes about his struggle to reconcile diverse cultural influences in his private life with a political context increasingly defined by a narrow definition of Hindu identity during the late 1980s and early 1990s in India. While he characterizes India's political rhetoric as dominated by notions of cultural purity and religious orthodoxy, my essay argues that the novel's setting and historical context…
A Review of Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada
A Review of Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. Un article de la revue International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Borders, Migrations and Managing Diversity: New Mappings) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada
Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. Un article de la revue International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Borders, Migrations and Managing Diversity: New Mappings) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Revisiting the subaltern in the new empire
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ was published in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture in 1988. With the female subaltern as its principle concern, the essay moves between the seemingly disparate realms of intellectual production, institutional spaces, colonial archives, Hindu scripture and economic infrastructures (among others) to pose a central problematic in relation to voice, subjectivity, representation and…
Lifting the Veil? Reconsidering the Task of Literary Historiography
This article responds to recent work on partition narratives concerned with recovering historical evidence about the treatment of 'abducted' women during and after India's partition. It attempts to theorize the silence surrounding the details of sectarian violence that recurs in testimonies and literary representations of these events. I argue that the loss of an archive this silence suggests necessitates scholars to adopt a pedagogy for the stud…
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan Part I: Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations 1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment David Arnold 2. The Perverse Little People of the Hills: Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer's Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur 3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the…
Revisiting the subaltern in the new empire
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ was published in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture in 1988. With the female subaltern as its principle concern, the essay moves between the seemingly disparate realms of intellectual production, institutional spaces, colonial archives, Hindu scripture and economic infrastructures (among others) to pose a central problematic in relation to voice, subjectivity, representation and…
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud
This article turns to Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud (1937) to better map the dynamics of the Plantation (ocene) within the history of the colonial tea industry in India. Drawing on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, Kathryn Yusoff and Ian Baucom, I argue that Anand's novel provides an 'alterglobal' inroad into the world of the tea plantation as a site where the 'biocentric subject' and the racialized Other are co-implicated …
Guns & Roses: Reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai'sFire on the Mountain
This essay argues that the picturesque gaze associated with Indian hill stations obscures how the colonial practice of ‘retreating to the hills’ was also predicated on a form of appropriation, commodification, and instrumentalization of land and the environment. Hill stations were a creation of the British Raj and imagined as Edenic spaces for settlement and escape from the heat of the plains and Indian culture. Written and visual accounts of col…
An Unremembered Time”: Secular Criticism in Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics
In Pankaj Mishra's novel, The Romantics, Samar writes about his struggle to reconcile diverse cultural influences in his private life with a political context increasingly defined by a narrow definition of Hindu identity during the late 1980s and early 1990s in India. While he characterizes India's political rhetoric as dominated by notions of cultural purity and religious orthodoxy, my essay argues that the novel's setting and historical context…
Lifting the Veil? Reconsidering the Task of Literary Historiography
This article responds to recent work on partition narratives concerned with recovering historical evidence about the treatment of 'abducted' women during and after India's partition. It attempts to theorize the silence surrounding the details of sectarian violence that recurs in testimonies and literary representations of these events. I argue that the loss of an archive this silence suggests necessitates scholars to adopt a pedagogy for the stud…
Revisiting the subaltern in the new empire
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ was published in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture in 1988. With the female subaltern as its principle concern, the essay moves between the seemingly disparate realms of intellectual production, institutional spaces, colonial archives, Hindu scripture and economic infrastructures (among others) to pose a central problematic in relation to voice, subjectivity, representation and…
A Review of Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada
A Review of Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. Un article de la revue International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Borders, Migrations and Managing Diversity: New Mappings) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada
Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. Un article de la revue International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes (Borders, Migrations and Managing Diversity: New Mappings) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
An Unremembered Time”: Secular Criticism in Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics
In Pankaj Mishra's novel, The Romantics, Samar writes about his struggle to reconcile diverse cultural influences in his private life with a political context increasingly defined by a narrow definition of Hindu identity during the late 1980s and early 1990s in India. While he characterizes India's political rhetoric as dominated by notions of cultural purity and religious orthodoxy, my essay argues that the novel's setting and historical context…
Cultivating Community
This chapter offers a reading of Kiran Desai’s 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss and examines its depiction of the Himalayan environment. It examines how colonial representations of the British “hill stations” of the Himalayas as Gardens of Eden are transformed by Desai in her novel to provide a “counterlandscaping” of colonial fantasies as well as the separatist demands of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). It also describes the queer…
Strange Joy: Plant-hunting and Responsibility in Jamaica Kincaid's (Post)colonial Travel Writing
This article explores how Kincaid's aesthetic practice in her gardening, plant-hunting and travel writing is informed by an ‘ethical singularity’ that Gayatri Spivak describes elsewhere as open to ‘the possibility of constructing a new type of responsibility for the cultural worker’. Where Kincaid's text might simply be read as an account of a diasporic subject claiming an equivalency between her own experience of colonialism and the experience o…
Guns & Roses: Reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai'sFire on the Mountain
This essay argues that the picturesque gaze associated with Indian hill stations obscures how the colonial practice of ‘retreating to the hills’ was also predicated on a form of appropriation, commodification, and instrumentalization of land and the environment. Hill stations were a creation of the British Raj and imagined as Edenic spaces for settlement and escape from the heat of the plains and Indian culture. Written and visual accounts of col…
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan Part I: Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations 1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment David Arnold 2. The Perverse Little People of the Hills: Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer's Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur 3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the…
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud
This article turns to Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud (1937) to better map the dynamics of the Plantation (ocene) within the history of the colonial tea industry in India. Drawing on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, Kathryn Yusoff and Ian Baucom, I argue that Anand's novel provides an 'alterglobal' inroad into the world of the tea plantation as a site where the 'biocentric subject' and the racialized Other are co-implicated …
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