Roanne L Kantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 642449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roanne L Kantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roanne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kantor |
| SIGNATURE | KANTOR R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3229-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deafness, Kinship, and Formal Possibility in Bollywood
This article focuses on two films in popular Hindi cinema (Bollywood) – Koshish and Barfi! – that put Deaf protagonists at the center of romantic comedies. It moves beyond typical studies of disability as a device of characterization and locates meaning instead in under-analyzed elements of filmic production. These include sound production, plot structure, and their unique entanglement in Bollywood through the picturized song-sequence. Songs pose…
E. M. Forster, George Orwell, and the Secret Life of Libel in Colonial Censorship
This article focuses on the careers and literary networks of E. M. Forster and George Orwell to reveal the key role of defamatory libel in censorship of anticolonial texts in the early-twentieth century. Studies of censorship have focused overwhelmingly on the role of obscene libel and seditious libel. These forms are appealing because they are easy to trace through court cases in the archive and because they offer an agential antagonist to the p…
Beyond English
Bhayva Tiwari’s new book Beyond English: World Literature in India offers a fresh look at some of the core concepts that structure the field of world literature, moving “beyond English” to defamiliarize the languages through which Anglophone academia defines the “world” in world literature. We might say simplistically that the “world” of world literary studies is divided in two. One version approaches the world as a space of economic circulation,…
South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The …
Futures Past
As scholars of South Asian literature, we find ourselves in the midst of two “ends”: the waning of postcolonial studies as the institutional force under which we organize, and the softening or splitting-off of the market for South Asian Anglophone literature, the object we study. We might, therefore, be tempted to think about these phenomena as constituting a “bust”. But history suggests another path. What if what we are experiencing is not a col…
Common Ground
Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari, Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, and Moshin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia all link soiling substances wi…
My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’
Building on recent analyses of futurity, I argue that the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's communist affiliation created new routes of movement, new threats of confinement, and at different moments, produced significantly different visions of the future. Part one unearths the ‘grammar of futurity’ in Faiz's prison verses (1951–54), which I compare with those of the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. Part two examines Faiz's travelogue of his 1973 visit …
Chasing Your (Josie) Bliss
Chasing Your (Josie) Bliss: The Troubling Critical Afterlife of Pablo Neruda’s Burmese Lover
My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’
Building on recent analyses of futurity, I argue that the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's communist affiliation created new routes of movement, new threats of confinement, and at different moments, produced significantly different visions of the future. Part one unearths the ‘grammar of futurity’ in Faiz's prison verses (1951–54), which I compare with those of the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. Part two examines Faiz's travelogue of his 1973 visit …
Chasing Your (Josie) Bliss
Chasing Your (Josie) Bliss: The Troubling Critical Afterlife of Pablo Neruda’s Burmese Lover
Common Ground
Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari, Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, and Moshin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia all link soiling substances wi…
My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’
Building on recent analyses of futurity, I argue that the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's communist affiliation created new routes of movement, new threats of confinement, and at different moments, produced significantly different visions of the future. Part one unearths the ‘grammar of futurity’ in Faiz's prison verses (1951–54), which I compare with those of the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. Part two examines Faiz's travelogue of his 1973 visit …
Futures Past
As scholars of South Asian literature, we find ourselves in the midst of two “ends”: the waning of postcolonial studies as the institutional force under which we organize, and the softening or splitting-off of the market for South Asian Anglophone literature, the object we study. We might, therefore, be tempted to think about these phenomena as constituting a “bust”. But history suggests another path. What if what we are experiencing is not a col…
South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The …
Beyond English
Bhayva Tiwari’s new book Beyond English: World Literature in India offers a fresh look at some of the core concepts that structure the field of world literature, moving “beyond English” to defamiliarize the languages through which Anglophone academia defines the “world” in world literature. We might say simplistically that the “world” of world literary studies is divided in two. One version approaches the world as a space of economic circulation,…
Deafness, Kinship, and Formal Possibility in Bollywood
This article focuses on two films in popular Hindi cinema (Bollywood) – Koshish and Barfi! – that put Deaf protagonists at the center of romantic comedies. It moves beyond typical studies of disability as a device of characterization and locates meaning instead in under-analyzed elements of filmic production. These include sound production, plot structure, and their unique entanglement in Bollywood through the picturized song-sequence. Songs pose…
E. M. Forster, George Orwell, and the Secret Life of Libel in Colonial Censorship
This article focuses on the careers and literary networks of E. M. Forster and George Orwell to reveal the key role of defamatory libel in censorship of anticolonial texts in the early-twentieth century. Studies of censorship have focused overwhelmingly on the role of obscene libel and seditious libel. These forms are appealing because they are easy to trace through court cases in the archive and because they offer an agential antagonist to the p…
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