Description: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores how writers, critics, teachers, and students of Indian English literatures negotiate and resist the categories through which the field is defined: ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone.
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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University. She is an affiliate faculty member of Rice's department in Transnational Asian Studies and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Review Quotes: Overdetermined brilliantly and insightfully highlights the contours of global Anglophone fiction alongside the critical afterlife of postcolonial theory. Weaving readings of Mukherjee, Bhagat, Chaudhuri, and Lahiri together with theorists such as Spivak, Bhabha, and Said, Srinivasan reveals the complex dynamics of language and identity. Her book is a rich diagnosis of the complexities, disavowals, and tangles that inform what it means to read in the twenty-first century, as well as an inspiring model for the promises and potentials of the humanities.--Michael Allan, associate professor of comparative literature, University of Oregon