Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
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This book explores changing modes of enfranchisement and disenfranchisement, and the historical struggles over them, in India and the United States. Initiating a conversation across very different world areas, this book stimulates new conversations about each region, and beyond both.
"[I]ts broad transdisciplinary reach, from law to literature, from the early twentieth century American popular parlor tunes to Indian medieval poetry, from North America to India, captivates the theoretical imagination as it opens up subaltern studies to exciting conversations...the volume serves as an exemplary performance of interdisciplinarity as it interrogates both the typical as well as untypical locations of subalternity...The overarching merit of the collection is nevertheless the consistency with which all contributions appropriately complexify the condition of subalternity across all the most important arenas of human life." - Kristine Suna-Koro, Journal of Postcolonial Theoery and Theology, Volume 1 (October 2010)
"A seminal collection that makes the comparison of apparently quite disparate topics work because of inspiring points of departure." - Peter Geschiere, Sociétés Politiques Comparées, No. 30 (December 2010)
"The volume, with its broad transdisciplinary reach - stretching from literature and culture studies to politics, law and history - is an exemplary piece of interdisciplinary study, and successfully synthesizes varying locations of subalternity within its scope. But it is perhaps here that its weaknesses overlap its merits. Combining such variety of perspectives and pedagogies in a single volume calls for a high degree of expertise on the part of the reader to fully appreciate the essays, their methodologies and styles. Some of them, compact and accessible in themselves, would perhaps prove more useful as stand alone than within an anthology like the current one." - Anasua Chatterjee; Seminar (www.india-seminar.com)
Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, Emory University. A founding member of the Subaltern Studies collective and editor of the Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories book series at Routledge, he is one of the leading theorists and originators of the subaltern studies approach and has published widely in the field of colonial and postcolonial studies.