Amit Baishya
Biographic Data
| ID | 642327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Baishya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Baishya |
| SIGNATURE | BAISHYA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Species Commons"
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first two monographs were on cultures of globalization: When Borne Across: Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (2011)
Zt.Zzt in the Anthropocene
While Namwali Serpell’s novel The Old Drift can be read as a fictional account of colonial and post-colonial Zambian history, this article focuses on the text’s exploration of Anthropocene time—geobiochemical and planetary temporal scales that predate human histories, while also gesturing towards futures where Homo sapiens may be absent. This article focuses on deep temporality in the novel via the use of mosquito and Moskeetoze (mosquito-like mi…
Postcolonial Animalities
Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is t…
Temporary People
Featured Review Deepak Unnikrishnan. Temporary People. Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2017. 240 pages. Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People is a riveting debut collection of twentyeight short stories written in a mélange of stylistic registers. Fiction, Unnikrishnan writes, has “barely addressed the so-called guest workers of the (Arabian) Gulf.” Divided into three parts—“Limbs,” “Tongue,” and “Home”—Temporary People addresses this absence and explo…
The Act of Watching with One's Own Eyes
Contemporary cultural productions from India's northeastern borderlands, both in English and languages like Assamese and Meitelon, powerfully illustrate how subjects who inhabit states of dispossession continue to imagine potential forms of action and collectivity beyond the forms of ‘death’ and non-being that states of exception supposedly engender. Moreover, such works also show how relational forms of subjectivity herald renewed possibilities …
Postcolonial Animalities
Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is t…
The Act of Watching with One's Own Eyes
Contemporary cultural productions from India's northeastern borderlands, both in English and languages like Assamese and Meitelon, powerfully illustrate how subjects who inhabit states of dispossession continue to imagine potential forms of action and collectivity beyond the forms of ‘death’ and non-being that states of exception supposedly engender. Moreover, such works also show how relational forms of subjectivity herald renewed possibilities …
Temporary People
Featured Review Deepak Unnikrishnan. Temporary People. Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2017. 240 pages. Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People is a riveting debut collection of twentyeight short stories written in a mélange of stylistic registers. Fiction, Unnikrishnan writes, has “barely addressed the so-called guest workers of the (Arabian) Gulf.” Divided into three parts—“Limbs,” “Tongue,” and “Home”—Temporary People addresses this absence and explo…
Postcolonial Animalities
Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is t…
"Species Commons"
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first two monographs were on cultures of globalization: When Borne Across: Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (2011)
Zt.Zzt in the Anthropocene
While Namwali Serpell’s novel The Old Drift can be read as a fictional account of colonial and post-colonial Zambian history, this article focuses on the text’s exploration of Anthropocene time—geobiochemical and planetary temporal scales that predate human histories, while also gesturing towards futures where Homo sapiens may be absent. This article focuses on deep temporality in the novel via the use of mosquito and Moskeetoze (mosquito-like mi…
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