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 is an engaging, erudite, and insightful contribution to contemporary scholarship. Covering a range of authors from India and its diaspora, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan makes provocative comparisons, centers pedagogy as central to academic knowledge, and deftly crosses the fiction-theory divide. This deeply researched and accessibly written book offers exciting new directions in the fields of postcolonial, South Asian, and Asian American literary studies.--Ulka Anjaria, professor of English and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University