Vijay Mishra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3637555 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vijay Mishra |
| PRENOMES | Vijay |
| SOBRENOME | Mishra |
| ASSINATURA | MISHRA V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Murdoch University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Seepersad Naipaul
The world novel
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to Naipaul's published and archival material. In his fiction and creative histories, the definition of the modern idea of world literature is informed by the importance of an artistic ordering…
Reading Salman Rushdie
Homi Bhabha and 'Signs Taken for Wonders
Homi Bhabha’s essay ‘Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817’ first published in 1985 and reprinted in his influential book The Location of Culture (1994) is one of the most important essays in postcolonial theory. Its key coinages – ‘hybridity’, ‘sly civility’, ‘mimicry’ – have had such a profound impact that they are now part of the theory’s essential components. One of the more incis…
Theorising the Troubled Black Waters
The Kala pani, the Black Waters, was both existential as well as a code for surveillance, a reminder of the coolies’ wretched state. As an existential absolute—and this is its theoretical value—in the girmit imaginary (imaginaire), it acquired considerable ideological traction as a transgressive act, a kind of threshold that one never crossed or entered into, even though in its Hindu, ‘śastric’ definition it applied narrowly only to the ‘twice bo…
Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial discourse is the critical underside of imperialism, the latter a hegemonic form going back to the beginnings of empire building. In the languages of the colonized—those of the ruling class as well as its subjects—a critical discourse of displacement, enslavement, and exploitation co-existed with what Conrad called the redemptive power of an “idea.” Postcolonial theory took shape in response to this discourse as a way of explaining th…
Manuscripts in an Archive
The article examines two unpublished novels and a TV script by Rushdie deposited in the Emory University Salman Rushdie Archive. Its aim is to offer an analysis of the contents of these unpublished works as well as to theorize their status with reference to fair copies of texts that do not have their corresponding published versions. Against Rushdie’s own declaration that these works were “garbage”, ephemeral material unworthy of circulation in t…
Archive fever and the genesis of secrecy in Salman Rushdie
This paper examines the Salman Rushdie papers deposited in the Robert W Woodruff Library [Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library] of Emory University. Although at first glance this is by and large an old fashioned archive (of 215 boxes and 55 oversized papers), it is also a digital archive in the sense that much of the author's drafts, letters and sundry material are preserved in computers. The archive has managed to preserve the hard disks …
Plantation Diaspora Testimonios and the Enigma of the Black Waters
The Indian plantation diaspora has few surviving written testimonios that give contemporary accounts of the subaltern lifeworlds of the indentured labourers. In the case of the Fiji Indian plantation diaspora, Totaram Sanadhya's two testimonios show the effects of crossing the black waters on the labourers, the role of the recruiters and the creation of a collective memory of the homeland. A key symbol of the recall took the form of memorial reco…
Postcolonialism 2010–2014
The idea of postcolonialism as signifying a break from the past, as the sign of the new, as a critical reappraisal in the context of imperialism and the rise of capital, and as a register of social and political assertiveness took shape as major geo-political changes were underway (the Iranian Revolution, the gradual decline of the Soviet Union, and so on). However, by 2006 when the word finally entered the OED, the citation and the definition em…
Numbers, too, have significance”
Strictly speaking, annotations do not belong to the discipline of bibliography, that is, if we follow its reading by three of the masters of the discipline: Ronald B. McKerrow, W. W. Greg and Fredson Bowers. Bibliography, in their definitions, is a scientific activity aimed at the construction of text as a “material” object. It has guiding principles that govern the quest for the “definitive” text where words are primarily iconic or indexical sig…
Bollywood
The first edition of Tejaswini Ganti’s Guidebook appeared in 2004 and became an important introductory undergraduate text for the study of Bollywood cinema. The new edition keeps much of the origin
Once We Were a Discipline
Leigh Dale's request was straightforward. She wrote, 'I am particularly interested in contributions which analyse the state of teaching and research, in the context of the institution/the discipline/the conditions of universities (including yours). [What is] the intellectual identity of your program?' I sat in my personal library, surrounded by some 5,000 volumes including near complete sets of Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, and New Literary Histo…
Salman Rushdie, aesthetics and Bollywood popular culture
This essay deals with the manner in which Salman Rushdie's works engage with the heterogeneous logics of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing upon the work of Jacques Rancière it is argued that Rushdie neutralizes the two by introducing what Rancière calls a dissensus in the ethical-aesthetic hierarchy. The dissensus works on a principle of 'excess' so that within the domain of aesthetics the ethical is pushed to its limits. The order of desire (aesthe…
Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters
(2011). Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters. South Asian Review: Vol. 32, 'On South Asian Diasporas', Guest Edited by B. P. Giri and Priya Kumar, pp. 89-108
Rushdie-Wushdie
Claims made on Salman Rushdie's behalf about his use of language are commonplace, and often occur as variations on a standard refrain: Rushdie gives a new voice to India; he creates a language which captures in a dramatic fashion the semiological complexities of Indian vernaculars; his "bilingualism is different from that of all his predecessors"; his use of texts ranging from the Qur'an, The Thousand Nights and A Night , and Attar's The Conferen…
The aching joys of Bollywood song and dance
There is now an extensive bibliography on Indian cinema, especially on Bollywood cinema, which examines this cinema from perspectives derived from the discipline of film theory and criticism generally. What has been missing until the publication of Gopal and Moorti's anthology Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance is a feature which is at the crux of popular Indian cinema: song and dance routines. The book, however, is not about India…
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attent…
Multiculturalism
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of multiculturalism/multicultural studies primarily in 2003.
What was Multiculturalism
This paper re-thinks the current imperative to theorize the (white) nation-state as a ‘multination,’ one in which the grand narrative of a nation’s founding communities (and the presumption of assimilation upon which the grand narrative was always based) gives way to a multiply centred narrative attuned to questions of unequal power relations, racism, exploitation and so on. Multiculturalism as a theory has arisen out of this shift and presents i…
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
Books on Bollywood
The diasporic imaginary
1996). The diasporic imaginary: Theorizing the Indian diaspora. Textual Practice: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 421-447
The diasporic imaginary
1996). The diasporic imaginary: Theorizing the Indian diaspora. Textual Practice: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 421-447
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
Aboriginal representations in Australian texts
The task taken up here is essentially one of Aboriginal cultural representation in film and literature. [1] How is Aboriginal culture represented and how does it represent itself? What are the limits of these forms of representation? Who can claim unmediated access to the laws which govern the forms by which Aboriginality is represented? What discursive practices impinge upon the processes, how do they advance or modify power relations between th…
Numbers, too, have significance”
Strictly speaking, annotations do not belong to the discipline of bibliography, that is, if we follow its reading by three of the masters of the discipline: Ronald B. McKerrow, W. W. Greg and Fredson Bowers. Bibliography, in their definitions, is a scientific activity aimed at the construction of text as a “material” object. It has guiding principles that govern the quest for the “definitive” text where words are primarily iconic or indexical sig…
Bollywood
The first edition of Tejaswini Ganti’s Guidebook appeared in 2004 and became an important introductory undergraduate text for the study of Bollywood cinema. The new edition keeps much of the origin
Salman Rushdie, aesthetics and Bollywood popular culture
This essay deals with the manner in which Salman Rushdie's works engage with the heterogeneous logics of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing upon the work of Jacques Rancière it is argued that Rushdie neutralizes the two by introducing what Rancière calls a dissensus in the ethical-aesthetic hierarchy. The dissensus works on a principle of 'excess' so that within the domain of aesthetics the ethical is pushed to its limits. The order of desire (aesthe…
Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters
(2011). Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters. South Asian Review: Vol. 32, 'On South Asian Diasporas', Guest Edited by B. P. Giri and Priya Kumar, pp. 89-108
What was Multiculturalism
This paper re-thinks the current imperative to theorize the (white) nation-state as a ‘multination,’ one in which the grand narrative of a nation’s founding communities (and the presumption of assimilation upon which the grand narrative was always based) gives way to a multiply centred narrative attuned to questions of unequal power relations, racism, exploitation and so on. Multiculturalism as a theory has arisen out of this shift and presents i…
(B)ordering Naipaul
Despite the solidity of their establishment the Tulsis had never considered themselves settled in Arwacas or even Trinidad. It was no more than a stage in the journey that had begun when Pundit Tulsi left India. V.S. Naipaul House 390
Reading Salman Rushdie
Manuscripts in an Archive
The article examines two unpublished novels and a TV script by Rushdie deposited in the Emory University Salman Rushdie Archive. Its aim is to offer an analysis of the contents of these unpublished works as well as to theorize their status with reference to fair copies of texts that do not have their corresponding published versions. Against Rushdie’s own declaration that these works were “garbage”, ephemeral material unworthy of circulation in t…
Archive fever and the genesis of secrecy in Salman Rushdie
This paper examines the Salman Rushdie papers deposited in the Robert W Woodruff Library [Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library] of Emory University. Although at first glance this is by and large an old fashioned archive (of 215 boxes and 55 oversized papers), it is also a digital archive in the sense that much of the author's drafts, letters and sundry material are preserved in computers. The archive has managed to preserve the hard disks …
Rushdie-Wushdie
Claims made on Salman Rushdie's behalf about his use of language are commonplace, and often occur as variations on a standard refrain: Rushdie gives a new voice to India; he creates a language which captures in a dramatic fashion the semiological complexities of Indian vernaculars; his "bilingualism is different from that of all his predecessors"; his use of texts ranging from the Qur'an, The Thousand Nights and A Night , and Attar's The Conferen…
Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger
Filmic narrative
I would like to begin this paper on filmic narrative with an examination of the most important essay written on the relationship between the work of art as traditionally conceived, and the modern techniques of mechanical reproduction. The essay of course, Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Benjamin's aim here is to offer a non-mystified, a non-facist theory of art now made possible as a result of advances i…
David Schulman and the laughter of south Indian kings and clowns∗
David Schulman and the laughter of south Indian kings and clowns∗
Filmic narrative
I would like to begin this paper on filmic narrative with an examination of the most important essay written on the relationship between the work of art as traditionally conceived, and the modern techniques of mechanical reproduction. The essay of course, Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Benjamin's aim here is to offer a non-mystified, a non-facist theory of art now made possible as a result of advances i…
Aboriginal representations in Australian texts
The task taken up here is essentially one of Aboriginal cultural representation in film and literature. [1] How is Aboriginal culture represented and how does it represent itself? What are the limits of these forms of representation? Who can claim unmediated access to the laws which govern the forms by which Aboriginality is represented? What discursive practices impinge upon the processes, how do they advance or modify power relations between th…
The centre cannot hold
My position is based upon the literary evidence with the necessary qualification that this literary evidence does not take into account the vast body of aphoristic and didactic work compiled under the heading of the dharmasastras
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992)
On Friday 29 and Sunday 31 May 1992 the Film and Television Institute of Western Australia paid homage to the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray by screening two of his films: Jana Aranya (The Middleman, 1975) and Jalsaghar (The Music Room, 1958). The following texts introduced the screenings
Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger
Dark Side of the Dream
The diasporic imaginary
1996). The diasporic imaginary: Theorizing the Indian diaspora. Textual Practice: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 421-447
(B)ordering Naipaul
Despite the solidity of their establishment the Tulsis had never considered themselves settled in Arwacas or even Trinidad. It was no more than a stage in the journey that had begun when Pundit Tulsi left India. V.S. Naipaul House 390
Books on Bollywood
Multiculturalism
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of multiculturalism/multicultural studies primarily in 2003.
What was Multiculturalism
This paper re-thinks the current imperative to theorize the (white) nation-state as a ‘multination,’ one in which the grand narrative of a nation’s founding communities (and the presumption of assimilation upon which the grand narrative was always based) gives way to a multiply centred narrative attuned to questions of unequal power relations, racism, exploitation and so on. Multiculturalism as a theory has arisen out of this shift and presents i…
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attent…
Rushdie-Wushdie
Claims made on Salman Rushdie's behalf about his use of language are commonplace, and often occur as variations on a standard refrain: Rushdie gives a new voice to India; he creates a language which captures in a dramatic fashion the semiological complexities of Indian vernaculars; his "bilingualism is different from that of all his predecessors"; his use of texts ranging from the Qur'an, The Thousand Nights and A Night , and Attar's The Conferen…
The aching joys of Bollywood song and dance
There is now an extensive bibliography on Indian cinema, especially on Bollywood cinema, which examines this cinema from perspectives derived from the discipline of film theory and criticism generally. What has been missing until the publication of Gopal and Moorti's anthology Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance is a feature which is at the crux of popular Indian cinema: song and dance routines. The book, however, is not about India…
Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters
(2011). Memory and Recall from Beyond the Troubled Black Waters. South Asian Review: Vol. 32, 'On South Asian Diasporas', Guest Edited by B. P. Giri and Priya Kumar, pp. 89-108
Salman Rushdie, aesthetics and Bollywood popular culture
This essay deals with the manner in which Salman Rushdie's works engage with the heterogeneous logics of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing upon the work of Jacques Rancière it is argued that Rushdie neutralizes the two by introducing what Rancière calls a dissensus in the ethical-aesthetic hierarchy. The dissensus works on a principle of 'excess' so that within the domain of aesthetics the ethical is pushed to its limits. The order of desire (aesthe…
Once We Were a Discipline
Leigh Dale's request was straightforward. She wrote, 'I am particularly interested in contributions which analyse the state of teaching and research, in the context of the institution/the discipline/the conditions of universities (including yours). [What is] the intellectual identity of your program?' I sat in my personal library, surrounded by some 5,000 volumes including near complete sets of Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, and New Literary Histo…
Bollywood
The first edition of Tejaswini Ganti’s Guidebook appeared in 2004 and became an important introductory undergraduate text for the study of Bollywood cinema. The new edition keeps much of the origin
Plantation Diaspora Testimonios and the Enigma of the Black Waters
The Indian plantation diaspora has few surviving written testimonios that give contemporary accounts of the subaltern lifeworlds of the indentured labourers. In the case of the Fiji Indian plantation diaspora, Totaram Sanadhya's two testimonios show the effects of crossing the black waters on the labourers, the role of the recruiters and the creation of a collective memory of the homeland. A key symbol of the recall took the form of memorial reco…
Postcolonialism 2010–2014
The idea of postcolonialism as signifying a break from the past, as the sign of the new, as a critical reappraisal in the context of imperialism and the rise of capital, and as a register of social and political assertiveness took shape as major geo-political changes were underway (the Iranian Revolution, the gradual decline of the Soviet Union, and so on). However, by 2006 when the word finally entered the OED, the citation and the definition em…
Numbers, too, have significance”
Strictly speaking, annotations do not belong to the discipline of bibliography, that is, if we follow its reading by three of the masters of the discipline: Ronald B. McKerrow, W. W. Greg and Fredson Bowers. Bibliography, in their definitions, is a scientific activity aimed at the construction of text as a “material” object. It has guiding principles that govern the quest for the “definitive” text where words are primarily iconic or indexical sig…
Archive fever and the genesis of secrecy in Salman Rushdie
This paper examines the Salman Rushdie papers deposited in the Robert W Woodruff Library [Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library] of Emory University. Although at first glance this is by and large an old fashioned archive (of 215 boxes and 55 oversized papers), it is also a digital archive in the sense that much of the author's drafts, letters and sundry material are preserved in computers. The archive has managed to preserve the hard disks …
Manuscripts in an Archive
The article examines two unpublished novels and a TV script by Rushdie deposited in the Emory University Salman Rushdie Archive. Its aim is to offer an analysis of the contents of these unpublished works as well as to theorize their status with reference to fair copies of texts that do not have their corresponding published versions. Against Rushdie’s own declaration that these works were “garbage”, ephemeral material unworthy of circulation in t…
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