Ania Loomba
Biographic Data
| ID | 993673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ania Loomba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ania |
| FAMILY NAME | Loomba |
| SIGNATURE | LOOMBA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology, by Cassander L. Smith, Nicholas R. Jones & Miles P. Grier (eds.)
A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity
Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman…
A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Renaissance
European overseas trade and diplomacy in some parts of the world went hand in hand with colonization and conquest in others areas. As the introduction to this third volume explains, and the eight expertly written chapters assembled here detail, these were not divergent but intricately connected activities. Through detailed attention to Renaissance literature, travel books, political, scientific and commercial writing, they show how European conta…
Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India
"Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female - and in some cases feminist - political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, …
Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India
Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female – and in some cases feminist – political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, a…
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Recasting the self
Comment on Roberts, Nathaniel. 2016. To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in a Chennai Slum. Oakland: University of California Press
Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies
This essay reflects on intersectionality as a perspective in early modern studies, and how it can be brought into productive conversation with the question of embodiment. It argues that we can use recent work on gender and sexuality in non-Western contexts to rethink our understanding of these categories, and also their relationship to racial and colonial history. It then looks at some key writings about the black body in the medieval and early m…
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies. Loo…
Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form
Ulka Anjaria's Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel challenges conventional ways of understanding both realism as a form and the formal attributes of Indian fiction. Over five chapters, it details the emergence and development of the realist novel in India from the late nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It offers a thought-provoking reexamination of key novels in Hindi, English, and Bengali, including Bankim Chandra Chat…
Early Modern or Early Colonial
Early Modern or Early Colonial? Ania Loomba (bio) The terminological shift from "the Renaissance" to the "early modern" has not resulted in a conceptual overhaul either in terms of conceptions of time or of space, at least within our discipline of English studies. The former term was explicitly limited to European history and culture, which it privileged in relation to its own past and the rest of the world. Maureen Quilligan writes that "the Ren…
South Asian Feminisms
Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama
Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda, eds. Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xv + 292 pp. index. illus. bibl. $119.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–1077–5. - Volume 64 Issue 4
‘Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows’: Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares
Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique
Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique Ania Loomba (bio) Is it possible to use comparative methods to "provincialize Europe"? Recent debates in several disciplines have made it abundantly clear that comparison, as a perspective and a method, has historically served to shore up Eurocentric and discriminatory ideologies and practices. The most productive potential of comparison is that it can establish connections and relations across s…
Race in Early Modern England
This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive
Edward Terry (1590–1655)
As a chaplain to the East India Company, Edward Terry went to Surat, India, in 1616. He joined the English ambassador Sir Thomas Roe in following the Mughal Emperor Jahangir on his travels south. An abridged version of Terry’s account was published by Samuel Purchas in 1625; the fuller A voyage to East-India featured more extended religious commentary. The passages here record Terry’s observations of natives at the Cape of Good Hope on the journe…
Duarte Lopes (fl. 1578–89)
The Portuguese merchant Duarte Lopes provided one of the earliest European descriptions of Central Africa. In 1578, he became the ambassador of Congo’s King Alvaro II to the pope and to Philip II of Spain. He argued for the Congo’s need for missionaries and for the advantages of free trade. His papers were published by Fillipo Pigafetta (1533–1604) in 1591, and remained one of the chief sources for information concerning central Africa up to the …
William Strachey (1572–1621)
William Strachey was secretary to the English ambassador at Constantinople and a member of the Virginia Company. His report of the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda may have been a source for Shakespeare’s Tempest. For the colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes divine, morall and martiall ... is an eyewitness account of life in Virginia, even as it draws on earlier works. Though suppressed for its critical stance, Strachey’s narrative presents sev…
Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616)
Richard Halduyt published accounts of Thomas Cavendish’s (also known as Candish) 1586-88 circumnavigation of the globe in both editions of his Principal Navigations the most important English collection of narratives of exploration, discovery, and travel. Ascribed in the second edition to Francis Petty, the narrative was more likely to have been compiled by Hakluyt from several briefer accounts. Hakluyt’s roles as both churchman and editor were c…
Richard Ligon (fl. 1647–50)
A royalist who lost his fortune in the Civil War, Ligon fled in 1647 to Barbados, where he lived for three years, before falling sick and returning to England. Ligon’s interest in the religion of African slaves looks forward to the argument of Morgan Godwyn (also in this volume) for the conversion of slaves, while his account of the Indian “Yarico” was Steele’s source for his tale of “Inkle and Yarico” in The Spectator. Variously reimagined and e…
Herodotus (484–425? BCE)
Author of the first secular narrative history known to the Western world, Herodotus gathered his material through travels in North Africa and the Near East. Although The Histories became a source for later writers on monstrosity and barbarism, it is equally important as an example of comparative ethnography, focusing more on social practices than on physiological traits.
Jan Huighen Van Linschoten (1563–1611)
The Dutch traveler Jan Huighen van Linschoten served for six years (1583-89) as bookkeeper to the archbishop of Portuguese Goa. His account of India was published in his Itinerario (1595-96), which was translated into German (1598), English (1598), Latin (1599), and French (1610). The Itinerario describes sea routes to the Indies and descriptions of the lands and peoples of Africa and India, including an early discussion of caste. Of particular i…
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (ca. 1201–72)
In addition to glossing places and things mentioned in the Bible, the Franciscan Bartholomaeus’s encyclopedia, De Proprietatibus Rerum (Encyclopedia on the Properties of Things) , collected for the first time Greek, Jewish, and Arabic scholarly views on medical and scientific subjects and surveyed different regions of the world. As a result, his commentary exemplifies the way in which competing modes of differentiating groups might coexist in ear…
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to literature challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories issues of sexuality and …
Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique
Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique Ania Loomba (bio) Is it possible to use comparative methods to "provincialize Europe"? Recent debates in several disciplines have made it abundantly clear that comparison, as a perspective and a method, has historically served to shore up Eurocentric and discriminatory ideologies and practices. The most productive potential of comparison is that it can establish connections and relations across s…
Overworlding the ‘Third World
Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Window Immolation in India
Journal Article Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Window Immolation in India Get access Ania Loomba Ania Loomba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 209–227, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/36.1.209 Published: 01 October 1993
Periodization, Race, and Global Contact
Break her will, and bruise no bone sir”’: Colonial and Sexual Mastery in Fletcher’s The Island Princess
JEMCS 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2002) "Break her will, and bruise no bone sir": Colonial and Sexual Mastery in Fletcher's The Island Princess Ania Loomba Tfie Island Princess, performed at court in 1621 by the King's Men, is the earliest and fullest treatment of the Molucca islands of the Malay Archipelago (also known as the Spice Islands) in English theater.1 Although it is routinely acknowledged that the story is based on a Spanish history of the conq…
Postcolonialism - Or postcolonial studies
(1998). Postcolonialism — Or postcolonial studies. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 39-42
The long and saggy sari
Introduction: Location, Culture, Post-Coloniality
Les recherches sur l'Inde ont souvent ete consacrees au colonialisme, aux castes, aux relations homme-femme, a l'immolation de la veuve et au sati. Le probleme de la localisation et des dichotomies (theorie/activisme, poststructuralisme/marxisme, premier et tiers-monde) est toujours latent. Les AA. des diverses contributions ont une approche differente de la theorie post-structuraliste. L'Inde reste marquee par sa partition (Inde/Pakistan) et la …
Early Modern or Early Colonial
Early Modern or Early Colonial? Ania Loomba (bio) The terminological shift from "the Renaissance" to the "early modern" has not resulted in a conceptual overhaul either in terms of conceptions of time or of space, at least within our discipline of English studies. The former term was explicitly limited to European history and culture, which it privileged in relation to its own past and the rest of the world. Maureen Quilligan writes that "the Ren…
Remembering Said
Research Article| August 01 2003 Remembering Said ANIA LOOMBA ANIA LOOMBA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 12–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-12 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ANIA LOOMBA; Remembering Said. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 August 2003; 23 (1-2…
The Indian women's movement: An overview
Overworlding the ‘Third World
Tangled Histories: Indian Feminism and Anglo-American Feminist Criticism
Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Window Immolation in India
Journal Article Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Window Immolation in India Get access Ania Loomba Ania Loomba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 209–227, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/36.1.209 Published: 01 October 1993
Introduction: Location, Culture, Post-Coloniality
Les recherches sur l'Inde ont souvent ete consacrees au colonialisme, aux castes, aux relations homme-femme, a l'immolation de la veuve et au sati. Le probleme de la localisation et des dichotomies (theorie/activisme, poststructuralisme/marxisme, premier et tiers-monde) est toujours latent. Les AA. des diverses contributions ont une approche differente de la theorie post-structuraliste. L'Inde reste marquee par sa partition (Inde/Pakistan) et la …
The long and saggy sari
Colonialism-postcolonialism
Postcolonialism - Or postcolonial studies
(1998). Postcolonialism — Or postcolonial studies. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 39-42
Footprints of the Colony
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to literature challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories issues of sexuality and …
Break her will, and bruise no bone sir”’: Colonial and Sexual Mastery in Fletcher’s The Island Princess
JEMCS 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2002) "Break her will, and bruise no bone sir": Colonial and Sexual Mastery in Fletcher's The Island Princess Ania Loomba Tfie Island Princess, performed at court in 1621 by the King's Men, is the earliest and fullest treatment of the Molucca islands of the Malay Archipelago (also known as the Spice Islands) in English theater.1 Although it is routinely acknowledged that the story is based on a Spanish history of the conq…
Post-Colonial Shakespeares
Shakespeare and cultural difference
Empire, race, colonialism and cultural difference are rather belatedly becoming central to Shakespeare criticism. In 1985, when the first volume of Alternative Shakespeares was published, it was necessary to establish that colonial expansion was a crucial Shakespearean theme, rather than just a backdrop (Barker and Hulme 1985). In 1987 an important review essay of ‘political criticism’ of Shakespeare remarked on the significant absence of a full-…
Remembering Said
Research Article| August 01 2003 Remembering Said ANIA LOOMBA ANIA LOOMBA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 12–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-12 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ANIA LOOMBA; Remembering Said. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 August 2003; 23 (1-2…
Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of "the East" (review)
Reviewed by: Before Orientalism: London’s Theatre of “the East”, 1576–1626 Ania Loomba Before Orientalism: London’s Theatre of “the East”, 1576–1626. By Richmond Barbour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Although colonialism has been central to the analysis of early modern Europe, literary and cultural critics have been slower to turn their gaze eastwards. In the 1980s, critics such as Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Hulme made the Ameri…
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Race in Early Modern England
This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive
Edward Terry (1590–1655)
As a chaplain to the East India Company, Edward Terry went to Surat, India, in 1616. He joined the English ambassador Sir Thomas Roe in following the Mughal Emperor Jahangir on his travels south. An abridged version of Terry’s account was published by Samuel Purchas in 1625; the fuller A voyage to East-India featured more extended religious commentary. The passages here record Terry’s observations of natives at the Cape of Good Hope on the journe…
Duarte Lopes (fl. 1578–89)
The Portuguese merchant Duarte Lopes provided one of the earliest European descriptions of Central Africa. In 1578, he became the ambassador of Congo’s King Alvaro II to the pope and to Philip II of Spain. He argued for the Congo’s need for missionaries and for the advantages of free trade. His papers were published by Fillipo Pigafetta (1533–1604) in 1591, and remained one of the chief sources for information concerning central Africa up to the …
William Strachey (1572–1621)
William Strachey was secretary to the English ambassador at Constantinople and a member of the Virginia Company. His report of the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda may have been a source for Shakespeare’s Tempest. For the colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes divine, morall and martiall ... is an eyewitness account of life in Virginia, even as it draws on earlier works. Though suppressed for its critical stance, Strachey’s narrative presents sev…
Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616)
Richard Halduyt published accounts of Thomas Cavendish’s (also known as Candish) 1586-88 circumnavigation of the globe in both editions of his Principal Navigations the most important English collection of narratives of exploration, discovery, and travel. Ascribed in the second edition to Francis Petty, the narrative was more likely to have been compiled by Hakluyt from several briefer accounts. Hakluyt’s roles as both churchman and editor were c…
Richard Ligon (fl. 1647–50)
A royalist who lost his fortune in the Civil War, Ligon fled in 1647 to Barbados, where he lived for three years, before falling sick and returning to England. Ligon’s interest in the religion of African slaves looks forward to the argument of Morgan Godwyn (also in this volume) for the conversion of slaves, while his account of the Indian “Yarico” was Steele’s source for his tale of “Inkle and Yarico” in The Spectator. Variously reimagined and e…
Herodotus (484–425? BCE)
Author of the first secular narrative history known to the Western world, Herodotus gathered his material through travels in North Africa and the Near East. Although The Histories became a source for later writers on monstrosity and barbarism, it is equally important as an example of comparative ethnography, focusing more on social practices than on physiological traits.
Jan Huighen Van Linschoten (1563–1611)
The Dutch traveler Jan Huighen van Linschoten served for six years (1583-89) as bookkeeper to the archbishop of Portuguese Goa. His account of India was published in his Itinerario (1595-96), which was translated into German (1598), English (1598), Latin (1599), and French (1610). The Itinerario describes sea routes to the Indies and descriptions of the lands and peoples of Africa and India, including an early discussion of caste. Of particular i…
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