| Ulka Anjaria Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University Rabb 239 office hours: T 11-1 uanjaria @ brandeis.edu 781-736-2162 |
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Research Interests
19th and 20th century South Asian literature and Modernity; Postcolonial Studies; Theories of the Novel; Nationalism; Literature and the Modern State; Cultural Anthropology
Selected Publications
"On Beauty and Being Postcolonial: Aesthetics and form in Zadie Smith." Zadie Smith: Critical essays. Ed., Tracey Lorraine Walters. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming.
"Satire, Literary Realism, and the Indian State: Six Acres and a Third and Raag Darbari." Economic and Political Weekly 41.46(2006): 4795-4800.
"Literature and the Limits of Law: Crime, guilt and agency in Premchand's Ghaban." Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts. New Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2005. 437-43.
Current Projects
"Novel Forms: Literary Realism and Imaginations of Modernity in India, 1930-1940"--looks at how formal innovations on the novel in 1930s India registered concerns around the nature of Indian modernity extending beyond the literary domain. Focus is on the novels of Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Ahmad Ali, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and others.
"Satire and the Postcolonial State"--a study of the way in which satire functions as a mode of realism under conditions of failed idealism, specifically where the postcolonial state has proven unable to live up to the promises offered by anti-colonial nationalism.
this page updated January 11, 2008