Madhumita Lahiri
Biographic Data
| ID | 642350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madhumita Lahiri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madhumita |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahiri |
| SIGNATURE | LAHIRI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5928-5918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not Going Anywhere: Local Protests as Post-global Politics
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context, this article shows how 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests indicate the contours of what we might think of as a “post-global” politics: that is, a movement that reflects a globall…
Imperfect Solidarities
A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this interconnected Anglophone world. Through Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi’s recollections o…
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, du Bois, and the Global Anglophone
The pose of the author: Colonial Africa and the operations of genre
Focusing on the 1920s publications of the Mozambican intellectual C. Kamba Simango (1890–1966), this article explores the transformations of a single story across the pages of amateur ethnomusicology (Natalie Curtis’s Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent, 1920), African American children’s literature (Jessie Redmon Fauset’s The Brownies’ Book, 1921), and professional anthropology (Franz Boas’s Journal of American Folklore, 1922). In each insta…
Hearing the Difference: Sexuality, Xenophobia, and South African Melodrama
This essay demonstrates the political exigency of melodramatic cinema in twenty-first-century South Africa, focusing on the short film cane/cain (dir. Jordache A. Ellapen, 2011) and the feature film Zulu Love Letter (dir. Ramadan Suleman, 2004). I argue that the displacement of speech in these films—signaled in cane/cain’s homonymic title and in Zulu Love Letter’ s seemingly logocentric one—suggests a powerful challenge to the Truth and Reconcili…
An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept
This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers, consequently, understand each other most of the time, but not all of the time, though they can never read each ot…
Gandhian fictions: RereadingSatyagraha in South Africa
From 1923–24, Mahatma Gandhi wrote his recollections of South Africa from a prison cell in India. This text, Satyagraha in South Africa, was intended to be ‘helpful in our present struggle’ to liberate India, as well as ‘a guide to any regular historian who may arise in the future.’ An emphatically transnational text, Satyagraha in South Africa relies upon the mode of allegory to place South Africa and India in relation to each other. As it encou…
World Romance: Genre, Internationalism, and W. E. B. Du Bois
World Romance:Genre, Internationalism, and W. E. B. Du Bois Madhumita Lahiri (bio) Ardent internationalist and progressive icon, W. E. B. Du Bois in 1929 requested a note from Gandhi "to the American Negro," to be included in the NAACP journal The Crisis. Gandhi's note was published in the July 1929 issue, reproduced in a facsimile of his typed version: Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grand children of the …
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World Romance: Genre, Internationalism, and W. E. B. Du Bois
World Romance:Genre, Internationalism, and W. E. B. Du Bois Madhumita Lahiri (bio) Ardent internationalist and progressive icon, W. E. B. Du Bois in 1929 requested a note from Gandhi "to the American Negro," to be included in the NAACP journal The Crisis. Gandhi's note was published in the July 1929 issue, reproduced in a facsimile of his typed version: Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grand children of the …
Gandhian fictions: RereadingSatyagraha in South Africa
From 1923–24, Mahatma Gandhi wrote his recollections of South Africa from a prison cell in India. This text, Satyagraha in South Africa, was intended to be ‘helpful in our present struggle’ to liberate India, as well as ‘a guide to any regular historian who may arise in the future.’ An emphatically transnational text, Satyagraha in South Africa relies upon the mode of allegory to place South Africa and India in relation to each other. As it encou…
An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept
This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers, consequently, understand each other most of the time, but not all of the time, though they can never read each ot…
Hearing the Difference: Sexuality, Xenophobia, and South African Melodrama
This essay demonstrates the political exigency of melodramatic cinema in twenty-first-century South Africa, focusing on the short film cane/cain (dir. Jordache A. Ellapen, 2011) and the feature film Zulu Love Letter (dir. Ramadan Suleman, 2004). I argue that the displacement of speech in these films—signaled in cane/cain’s homonymic title and in Zulu Love Letter’ s seemingly logocentric one—suggests a powerful challenge to the Truth and Reconcili…
The pose of the author: Colonial Africa and the operations of genre
Focusing on the 1920s publications of the Mozambican intellectual C. Kamba Simango (1890–1966), this article explores the transformations of a single story across the pages of amateur ethnomusicology (Natalie Curtis’s Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent, 1920), African American children’s literature (Jessie Redmon Fauset’s The Brownies’ Book, 1921), and professional anthropology (Franz Boas’s Journal of American Folklore, 1922). In each insta…
Imperfect Solidarities
A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this interconnected Anglophone world. Through Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi’s recollections o…
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, du Bois, and the Global Anglophone
Not Going Anywhere: Local Protests as Post-global Politics
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context, this article shows how 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests indicate the contours of what we might think of as a “post-global” politics: that is, a movement that reflects a globall…
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