Alex Tickell
Biographic Data
| ID | 76119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Tickell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Tickell |
| SIGNATURE | TICKELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9271-3873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Han Suyin's Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization
This article asks how the distinctive use of life-writing and focus on inter-ethnic intimacy in Han Suyin's popular middlebrow romance fictions A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952) and The Mountain is Young (1958) constitute a critique of decolonization and align with her radical politics as a spokesperson for Bandung-era non-alignment. The author suggests that in these two major fictions of the Cold War era Han reprises what Christina Klein identifie…
Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia
Rosalie Matilda Kwanghu Chou (September 12, 1916/17–November 2, 2012), better \nknown by her pen name, Han Suyin, was born in Xinyang, in south-eastern Henan \nprovince, to a Chinese father and a Flemish mother. When she was five her family moved \nto Peking (modern-day Beijing), where she started formal schooling. Han studied in \na local Chinese school before transferring to a Catholic school where she was educated in \nboth French and English.…
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
South-Asian Fiction in English
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region.
The 1990s: An increasingly postcolonial decade
The article offers a critical contextualized overview of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the decade of the 1990s, at a time when it was edited at the Universities of Leeds and Hull. It looks at the journal’s relations to the emerging and rapidly changing field of postcolonial literary studies, when JCL shifted from offering fairly predictable close readings of writers still predominantly described as “Commonwealth”, to more prominently …
An Interview with Manju Kapur
In this interview with Alex Tickell the acclaimed Indian author Manju Kapur talks about her fiction and her growth as a writer. Novels discussed include Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, The Immigrant and Custody. Kapur reflects on the role of women in the families she depicts, the treatment of history and political change in her works, and the reception of her books in India and internationally. She also recalls her early development a…
The postcolonial city and its subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay
by Rashmi Varma, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, New York and London, Routledge, 2012, 224 pp., £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 4158 8039 8 The postcolonial city must be approached as
Kipling's famine-romance: "Masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in "William the Conqueror
Our present understanding of colonial masculinity is strongly mediated by Kipling’s fictional representation of late 19th‐century India as a space of male self‐determination and imperial service. This article concentrates on one of Kipling’s short stories, published in American and British women’s magazines and speculates on how a female audience might have caused Kipling to modify his (conventional) depiction of Anglo‐Indian gender relations. Dr…
Midnight's Ancestors: Kylas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction
Writing the Nation's Destiny: Indian fiction in English before 1910
This paper examines the representation of proto-national identity in Indian – English fiction before the formative nationalist novels of the 1920s and 1930s. Questioning theoretical connections between Indian – English fiction and the secularism of the Nehruvian national project, my essay argues that primordialist nationalism and culturally transacted concepts of communal/racial identity were key elements in the political imagining of early India…
Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism
The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Ind…
Negotiating the Landscape: Travel, Transaction, and the Mapping of Colonial India
This essay examines the journals and associated technical travel-narratives produced as part of the Great Arc survey -a colonial project which formed the basis for the mapping of India in the nineteenth century. Drawing primarily on R. H. Phillimore's four-volume Historical Records of the Survey of India, my paper discusses representions of the process of 'worlding' the terrain of the colony and concentrates on instances in which Indians counterm…
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy’s Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
Footprints on The Beach: Traces of colonial adventure in narratives of independent tourism
This article analyses the imperial imaginary intrinsic to forms of 'independent' tourism and reads Alex Garland's cult novel of independent travel 'The Beach' as an expression of contemporary cultural encounter. Drawing on theories of tourism, my analysis tried to show how 'independent' tourism, although narrated as a more culturally sensitive form of encounter than conventional tourism, often 'Others' host populations in characteristically postc…
The Road Less Travelled: Pather Panchali in Translation
In this essay, which reads takes the translation of Bhibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1928 novel Pather Panchali by T.W. Clark and Tarapada Mukherji as its subject, I reflect on the politics of translation in postcolonial studies and examine the critical difficulties of working with translated texts. Drawing on theories of translation by Gayatri C. Spivak and Sujit Mukherjee, my essay problematises assumptions about cultural purity and integrity imp…
The postcolonial city and its subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay
by Rashmi Varma, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, New York and London, Routledge, 2012, 224 pp., £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 4158 8039 8 The postcolonial city must be approached as
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy’s Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
Footprints on The Beach: Traces of colonial adventure in narratives of independent tourism
This article analyses the imperial imaginary intrinsic to forms of 'independent' tourism and reads Alex Garland's cult novel of independent travel 'The Beach' as an expression of contemporary cultural encounter. Drawing on theories of tourism, my analysis tried to show how 'independent' tourism, although narrated as a more culturally sensitive form of encounter than conventional tourism, often 'Others' host populations in characteristically postc…
Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism
The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Ind…
Han Suyin's Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization
This article asks how the distinctive use of life-writing and focus on inter-ethnic intimacy in Han Suyin's popular middlebrow romance fictions A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952) and The Mountain is Young (1958) constitute a critique of decolonization and align with her radical politics as a spokesperson for Bandung-era non-alignment. The author suggests that in these two major fictions of the Cold War era Han reprises what Christina Klein identifie…
The 1990s: An increasingly postcolonial decade
The article offers a critical contextualized overview of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the decade of the 1990s, at a time when it was edited at the Universities of Leeds and Hull. It looks at the journal’s relations to the emerging and rapidly changing field of postcolonial literary studies, when JCL shifted from offering fairly predictable close readings of writers still predominantly described as “Commonwealth”, to more prominently …
An Interview with Manju Kapur
In this interview with Alex Tickell the acclaimed Indian author Manju Kapur talks about her fiction and her growth as a writer. Novels discussed include Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, The Immigrant and Custody. Kapur reflects on the role of women in the families she depicts, the treatment of history and political change in her works, and the reception of her books in India and internationally. She also recalls her early development a…
Kipling's famine-romance: "Masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in "William the Conqueror
Our present understanding of colonial masculinity is strongly mediated by Kipling’s fictional representation of late 19th‐century India as a space of male self‐determination and imperial service. This article concentrates on one of Kipling’s short stories, published in American and British women’s magazines and speculates on how a female audience might have caused Kipling to modify his (conventional) depiction of Anglo‐Indian gender relations. Dr…
Midnight's Ancestors: Kylas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction
Negotiating the Landscape: Travel, Transaction, and the Mapping of Colonial India
This essay examines the journals and associated technical travel-narratives produced as part of the Great Arc survey -a colonial project which formed the basis for the mapping of India in the nineteenth century. Drawing primarily on R. H. Phillimore's four-volume Historical Records of the Survey of India, my paper discusses representions of the process of 'worlding' the terrain of the colony and concentrates on instances in which Indians counterm…
The Road Less Travelled: Pather Panchali in Translation
In this essay, which reads takes the translation of Bhibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1928 novel Pather Panchali by T.W. Clark and Tarapada Mukherji as its subject, I reflect on the politics of translation in postcolonial studies and examine the critical difficulties of working with translated texts. Drawing on theories of translation by Gayatri C. Spivak and Sujit Mukherjee, my essay problematises assumptions about cultural purity and integrity imp…
Footprints on The Beach: Traces of colonial adventure in narratives of independent tourism
This article analyses the imperial imaginary intrinsic to forms of 'independent' tourism and reads Alex Garland's cult novel of independent travel 'The Beach' as an expression of contemporary cultural encounter. Drawing on theories of tourism, my analysis tried to show how 'independent' tourism, although narrated as a more culturally sensitive form of encounter than conventional tourism, often 'Others' host populations in characteristically postc…
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy’s Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
Negotiating the Landscape: Travel, Transaction, and the Mapping of Colonial India
This essay examines the journals and associated technical travel-narratives produced as part of the Great Arc survey -a colonial project which formed the basis for the mapping of India in the nineteenth century. Drawing primarily on R. H. Phillimore's four-volume Historical Records of the Survey of India, my paper discusses representions of the process of 'worlding' the terrain of the colony and concentrates on instances in which Indians counterm…
Writing the Nation's Destiny: Indian fiction in English before 1910
This paper examines the representation of proto-national identity in Indian – English fiction before the formative nationalist novels of the 1920s and 1930s. Questioning theoretical connections between Indian – English fiction and the secularism of the Nehruvian national project, my essay argues that primordialist nationalism and culturally transacted concepts of communal/racial identity were key elements in the political imagining of early India…
Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism
The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Ind…
Midnight's Ancestors: Kylas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction
Kipling's famine-romance: "Masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in "William the Conqueror
Our present understanding of colonial masculinity is strongly mediated by Kipling’s fictional representation of late 19th‐century India as a space of male self‐determination and imperial service. This article concentrates on one of Kipling’s short stories, published in American and British women’s magazines and speculates on how a female audience might have caused Kipling to modify his (conventional) depiction of Anglo‐Indian gender relations. Dr…
The postcolonial city and its subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay
by Rashmi Varma, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, New York and London, Routledge, 2012, 224 pp., £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 4158 8039 8 The postcolonial city must be approached as
The 1990s: An increasingly postcolonial decade
The article offers a critical contextualized overview of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the decade of the 1990s, at a time when it was edited at the Universities of Leeds and Hull. It looks at the journal’s relations to the emerging and rapidly changing field of postcolonial literary studies, when JCL shifted from offering fairly predictable close readings of writers still predominantly described as “Commonwealth”, to more prominently …
An Interview with Manju Kapur
In this interview with Alex Tickell the acclaimed Indian author Manju Kapur talks about her fiction and her growth as a writer. Novels discussed include Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, The Immigrant and Custody. Kapur reflects on the role of women in the families she depicts, the treatment of history and political change in her works, and the reception of her books in India and internationally. She also recalls her early development a…
South-Asian Fiction in English
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region.
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
Han Suyin's Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization
This article asks how the distinctive use of life-writing and focus on inter-ethnic intimacy in Han Suyin's popular middlebrow romance fictions A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952) and The Mountain is Young (1958) constitute a critique of decolonization and align with her radical politics as a spokesperson for Bandung-era non-alignment. The author suggests that in these two major fictions of the Cold War era Han reprises what Christina Klein identifie…
Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia
Rosalie Matilda Kwanghu Chou (September 12, 1916/17–November 2, 2012), better \nknown by her pen name, Han Suyin, was born in Xinyang, in south-eastern Henan \nprovince, to a Chinese father and a Flemish mother. When she was five her family moved \nto Peking (modern-day Beijing), where she started formal schooling. Han studied in \na local Chinese school before transferring to a Catholic school where she was educated in \nboth French and English.…
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