Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, 2024
The introduction to a new collaborative volume by me and Smaran Dayal. It collects and discusses ... more The introduction to a new collaborative volume by me and Smaran Dayal. It collects and discusses key works by Bengali Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein.
Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against gender oppression everywhere. Her radical imagination links the realities of living in a British colony to the technological and scientific breakthroughs of her time, the effects of hauntingly pervasive systems of sexual domination, and collective dreams of the future, forging a visionary, experimental body of work. Alongside Rokeya’s pathbreaking feminist science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream,” this volume features fresh and exciting new translations of key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work. If her contemporary B.R. Ambedkar urged the “annihilation of caste,” Rokeya demands nothing less than the annihilation of sexism, with education as the primary instrument of this revolution. Her brilliant wit and creativity reflect profoundly on the complexities of undoing deep-seated gender supremacy and summon her readers to imagine hitherto undreamed freedoms.
ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSEIN (1880-1932) was born in present-day Bangladesh, then part of colonial India. Despite being deprived of formal education, she became a prominent writer, activist, and educator. The web of her life spanned from the minutiae of running a girls’ school in Kolkata to struggles for women’s emancipation on the national and world stage.
Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism, 2019
Flier for my 2019 book in the Modernist Latitudes series from Columbia University Press. Please s... more Flier for my 2019 book in the Modernist Latitudes series from Columbia University Press. Please see the flier for a 30% discount code if purchased from the publisher direct.
Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the
question of how to construct an educational practice for all future
citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals
asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be
equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world?
In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism,
these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and
technologies of public education by actively relating them to
residual indigenous collective forms.
In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical
and historical account of literary engagements with
structures and representations of public teaching and learning
by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s
to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects
existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national
liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central
aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings
of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé
Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi,
and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and
openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach
below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected
connections between languages and regions, Indigenous
Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that
encompasses the decisive way public education transformed
modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.
Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism, 2019
Chapter Three of my recent book Indigenous Vanguards. It is a reading of Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d... more Chapter Three of my recent book Indigenous Vanguards. It is a reading of Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land) in relation to the schoolbooks (cahiers) encountered by Césaire as a primary student in Martinique. I argue that Césaire's poetic Cahier follows the trace of the schoolroom cahiers in a startling reimagination of colonial education. Césaire's poetic work demonstrates that there is more than one way to "decolonize" the classroom.
My introduction and Part I of my translation of an important mid-twentieth-century Bengali novel ... more My introduction and Part I of my translation of an important mid-twentieth-century Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay.
Contribution to the book collection "The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Th... more Contribution to the book collection "The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020" edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Part of a dossier edited by Nergis Ertürk on the 20th anniversary of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's... more Part of a dossier edited by Nergis Ertürk on the 20th anniversary of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Death of a Discipline." I am posting the abstract and links to the article here, as I do not have permission to put the full article on this site.
Abstract: This article reflects on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline (2003) twenty years after its first publication. The discipline of Comparative Literature was not reborn in line with Spivak’s elegiac imperatives. Yet Death of a Discipline’s argument—that literary reading may affirm a certain vagueness and non-knowledge in the outlines of alterity—remains a compelling resource in a world of STEM, calculable probability, and the power of averages. In excess of its topical institutional intervention, Death of a Discipline indicates a range of enveloping generalities that both contain and make room for the future development of new practices in the Humanities. These point beyond the politics of identity and the power of an ideological average, suggesting work to come.
My contribution to a dossier edited by Raji Soni in Sikh Formations on Jaspreet Singh's 2013 nove... more My contribution to a dossier edited by Raji Soni in Sikh Formations on Jaspreet Singh's 2013 novel "Helium." See the other contributions and Soni's Introduction here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rsfo20
Abstract: Helium dramatizes a traumatized witness's attempt to write about India's 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. Depicting his attempt to write an investigative confession of complicity, the novel discloses larger patterns of fantasy, sexual economy, and gender violence that make the pogrom and his own self-story possible. Through a complex narrative framework, Helium shows that unlike legal redress, justice is never present but haunts the present from a future anterior. Helium's literary representations question the idea that literature can document the facts of an historical event so as to raise public consciousness of it, confronting the reader with what remains unsusceptible to narrativization.
A recent position paper on the meaning and scope of "South Asian Literary Studies," with specific... more A recent position paper on the meaning and scope of "South Asian Literary Studies," with specific reference to the languages studied and the (generally neglected) vast literary production in the many languages of South Asia.
https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Contribution to cluster on "What ... more https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders Contribution to cluster on "What is the Scale of the Literary Object?" edited by Rebecca Walkowitz.
Examination of "scale" as a literary and theoretical problem in the context of expanding Digital Humanities. Implications and limits for literary reading and topographic generalization. Discussion of Moretti, Marx, Bataille, Heidegger, and Bengali autobiography of Rassundari Dasi.
Follow link to access the article: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Extended review and discussion of Emily Apter's "Against World Literature: On the Politics of Unt... more Extended review and discussion of Emily Apter's "Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability" (New York: Verso, 2013). The book's most powerful argument, in my view, is that the "untranslatable" profitless excreta of the world's literatures are both the matter with which to rethink comparison and the limits of the inflationary World Literature industry.
Exploration of the dilemmas of rural guerilla organization among India's landless poor (subaltern... more Exploration of the dilemmas of rural guerilla organization among India's landless poor (subaltern and tribal groups) during the continuing Naxalite movement. I argue that the 1960s leadership's "annihilation" project in particular (targeted assassination of landlords and wealthy peasants) raises questions of epistemic excess and epistemological difference that are not easy to resolve. How do these questions relate to the instrumentalization of affect (class hatred) as a tool of someone else's struggle?
In an autobiographical and theoretical conversation, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ben Conisbee ... more In an autobiographical and theoretical conversation, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ben Conisbee Baer discuss issues arising from the twentieth anniversary of the journal Rethinking Marxism. Moving from a personal discussion of their respective entryways into ...
Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, 2024
The introduction to a new collaborative volume by me and Smaran Dayal. It collects and discusses ... more The introduction to a new collaborative volume by me and Smaran Dayal. It collects and discusses key works by Bengali Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein.
Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against gender oppression everywhere. Her radical imagination links the realities of living in a British colony to the technological and scientific breakthroughs of her time, the effects of hauntingly pervasive systems of sexual domination, and collective dreams of the future, forging a visionary, experimental body of work. Alongside Rokeya’s pathbreaking feminist science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream,” this volume features fresh and exciting new translations of key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work. If her contemporary B.R. Ambedkar urged the “annihilation of caste,” Rokeya demands nothing less than the annihilation of sexism, with education as the primary instrument of this revolution. Her brilliant wit and creativity reflect profoundly on the complexities of undoing deep-seated gender supremacy and summon her readers to imagine hitherto undreamed freedoms.
ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSEIN (1880-1932) was born in present-day Bangladesh, then part of colonial India. Despite being deprived of formal education, she became a prominent writer, activist, and educator. The web of her life spanned from the minutiae of running a girls’ school in Kolkata to struggles for women’s emancipation on the national and world stage.
Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism, 2019
Flier for my 2019 book in the Modernist Latitudes series from Columbia University Press. Please s... more Flier for my 2019 book in the Modernist Latitudes series from Columbia University Press. Please see the flier for a 30% discount code if purchased from the publisher direct.
Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the
question of how to construct an educational practice for all future
citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals
asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be
equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world?
In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism,
these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and
technologies of public education by actively relating them to
residual indigenous collective forms.
In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical
and historical account of literary engagements with
structures and representations of public teaching and learning
by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s
to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects
existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national
liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central
aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings
of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé
Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi,
and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and
openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach
below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected
connections between languages and regions, Indigenous
Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that
encompasses the decisive way public education transformed
modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.
Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism, 2019
Chapter Three of my recent book Indigenous Vanguards. It is a reading of Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d... more Chapter Three of my recent book Indigenous Vanguards. It is a reading of Aimé Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land) in relation to the schoolbooks (cahiers) encountered by Césaire as a primary student in Martinique. I argue that Césaire's poetic Cahier follows the trace of the schoolroom cahiers in a startling reimagination of colonial education. Césaire's poetic work demonstrates that there is more than one way to "decolonize" the classroom.
My introduction and Part I of my translation of an important mid-twentieth-century Bengali novel ... more My introduction and Part I of my translation of an important mid-twentieth-century Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay.
Contribution to the book collection "The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Th... more Contribution to the book collection "The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020" edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Part of a dossier edited by Nergis Ertürk on the 20th anniversary of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's... more Part of a dossier edited by Nergis Ertürk on the 20th anniversary of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Death of a Discipline." I am posting the abstract and links to the article here, as I do not have permission to put the full article on this site.
Abstract: This article reflects on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline (2003) twenty years after its first publication. The discipline of Comparative Literature was not reborn in line with Spivak’s elegiac imperatives. Yet Death of a Discipline’s argument—that literary reading may affirm a certain vagueness and non-knowledge in the outlines of alterity—remains a compelling resource in a world of STEM, calculable probability, and the power of averages. In excess of its topical institutional intervention, Death of a Discipline indicates a range of enveloping generalities that both contain and make room for the future development of new practices in the Humanities. These point beyond the politics of identity and the power of an ideological average, suggesting work to come.
My contribution to a dossier edited by Raji Soni in Sikh Formations on Jaspreet Singh's 2013 nove... more My contribution to a dossier edited by Raji Soni in Sikh Formations on Jaspreet Singh's 2013 novel "Helium." See the other contributions and Soni's Introduction here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rsfo20
Abstract: Helium dramatizes a traumatized witness's attempt to write about India's 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. Depicting his attempt to write an investigative confession of complicity, the novel discloses larger patterns of fantasy, sexual economy, and gender violence that make the pogrom and his own self-story possible. Through a complex narrative framework, Helium shows that unlike legal redress, justice is never present but haunts the present from a future anterior. Helium's literary representations question the idea that literature can document the facts of an historical event so as to raise public consciousness of it, confronting the reader with what remains unsusceptible to narrativization.
A recent position paper on the meaning and scope of "South Asian Literary Studies," with specific... more A recent position paper on the meaning and scope of "South Asian Literary Studies," with specific reference to the languages studied and the (generally neglected) vast literary production in the many languages of South Asia.
https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Contribution to cluster on "What ... more https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders Contribution to cluster on "What is the Scale of the Literary Object?" edited by Rebecca Walkowitz.
Examination of "scale" as a literary and theoretical problem in the context of expanding Digital Humanities. Implications and limits for literary reading and topographic generalization. Discussion of Moretti, Marx, Bataille, Heidegger, and Bengali autobiography of Rassundari Dasi.
Follow link to access the article: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Extended review and discussion of Emily Apter's "Against World Literature: On the Politics of Unt... more Extended review and discussion of Emily Apter's "Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability" (New York: Verso, 2013). The book's most powerful argument, in my view, is that the "untranslatable" profitless excreta of the world's literatures are both the matter with which to rethink comparison and the limits of the inflationary World Literature industry.
Exploration of the dilemmas of rural guerilla organization among India's landless poor (subaltern... more Exploration of the dilemmas of rural guerilla organization among India's landless poor (subaltern and tribal groups) during the continuing Naxalite movement. I argue that the 1960s leadership's "annihilation" project in particular (targeted assassination of landlords and wealthy peasants) raises questions of epistemic excess and epistemological difference that are not easy to resolve. How do these questions relate to the instrumentalization of affect (class hatred) as a tool of someone else's struggle?
In an autobiographical and theoretical conversation, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ben Conisbee ... more In an autobiographical and theoretical conversation, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ben Conisbee Baer discuss issues arising from the twentieth anniversary of the journal Rethinking Marxism. Moving from a personal discussion of their respective entryways into ...
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Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against gender oppression everywhere. Her radical imagination links the realities of living in a British colony to the technological and scientific breakthroughs of her time, the effects of hauntingly pervasive systems of sexual domination, and collective dreams of the future, forging a visionary, experimental body of work. Alongside Rokeya’s pathbreaking feminist science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream,” this volume features fresh and exciting new translations of key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work. If her contemporary B.R. Ambedkar urged the “annihilation of caste,” Rokeya demands nothing less than the annihilation of sexism, with education as the primary instrument of this revolution. Her brilliant wit and creativity reflect profoundly on the complexities of undoing deep-seated gender supremacy and summon her readers to imagine hitherto undreamed freedoms.
ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSEIN (1880-1932) was born in present-day Bangladesh, then part of colonial India. Despite being deprived of formal education, she became a prominent writer, activist, and educator. The web of her life spanned from the minutiae of running a girls’ school in Kolkata to struggles for women’s emancipation on the national and world stage.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/indigenous-vanguards/9780231163729
Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the
question of how to construct an educational practice for all future
citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals
asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be
equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world?
In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism,
these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and
technologies of public education by actively relating them to
residual indigenous collective forms.
In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical
and historical account of literary engagements with
structures and representations of public teaching and learning
by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s
to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects
existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national
liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central
aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings
of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé
Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi,
and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and
openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach
below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected
connections between languages and regions, Indigenous
Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that
encompasses the decisive way public education transformed
modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.
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I am posting the abstract and links to the article here, as I do not have permission to put the full article on this site.
Abstract:
This article reflects on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline
(2003) twenty years after its first publication. The discipline of Comparative Literature was not reborn in line with Spivak’s elegiac imperatives. Yet Death of a Discipline’s argument—that literary reading may affirm a certain vagueness and non-knowledge in the outlines of alterity—remains a compelling resource in a world of STEM, calculable probability, and the power of averages. In excess of its topical institutional intervention, Death of a Discipline indicates a range of enveloping generalities that both contain and make room for the future development of new practices in the Humanities. These point beyond the politics of identity and the power of an ideological average, suggesting work to come.
Link to MUSE: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902170
See the other contributions and Soni's Introduction here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rsfo20
Abstract: Helium dramatizes a traumatized witness's attempt to write about India's 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. Depicting his attempt to write an investigative confession of complicity, the novel discloses larger patterns of fantasy, sexual economy, and gender violence that make the pogrom and his own self-story possible. Through a complex narrative framework, Helium shows that unlike legal redress, justice is never present but haunts the present from a future anterior. Helium's literary representations question the idea that literature can document the facts of an historical event so as to raise public consciousness of it, confronting the reader with what remains unsusceptible to narrativization.
Contribution to cluster on "What is the Scale of the Literary Object?" edited by Rebecca Walkowitz.
Examination of "scale" as a literary and theoretical problem in the context of expanding Digital Humanities. Implications and limits for literary reading and topographic generalization. Discussion of Moretti, Marx, Bataille, Heidegger, and Bengali autobiography of Rassundari Dasi.
Follow link to access the article: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Contribution to a book edited by Pradip Basu.
Buy the book here: https://warblerpress.com/spider-mother
Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against gender oppression everywhere. Her radical imagination links the realities of living in a British colony to the technological and scientific breakthroughs of her time, the effects of hauntingly pervasive systems of sexual domination, and collective dreams of the future, forging a visionary, experimental body of work. Alongside Rokeya’s pathbreaking feminist science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream,” this volume features fresh and exciting new translations of key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work. If her contemporary B.R. Ambedkar urged the “annihilation of caste,” Rokeya demands nothing less than the annihilation of sexism, with education as the primary instrument of this revolution. Her brilliant wit and creativity reflect profoundly on the complexities of undoing deep-seated gender supremacy and summon her readers to imagine hitherto undreamed freedoms.
ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSEIN (1880-1932) was born in present-day Bangladesh, then part of colonial India. Despite being deprived of formal education, she became a prominent writer, activist, and educator. The web of her life spanned from the minutiae of running a girls’ school in Kolkata to struggles for women’s emancipation on the national and world stage.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/indigenous-vanguards/9780231163729
Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the
question of how to construct an educational practice for all future
citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals
asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be
equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world?
In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism,
these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and
technologies of public education by actively relating them to
residual indigenous collective forms.
In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical
and historical account of literary engagements with
structures and representations of public teaching and learning
by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s
to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects
existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national
liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central
aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings
of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé
Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi,
and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and
openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach
below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected
connections between languages and regions, Indigenous
Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that
encompasses the decisive way public education transformed
modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.
I am posting the abstract and links to the article here, as I do not have permission to put the full article on this site.
Abstract:
This article reflects on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline
(2003) twenty years after its first publication. The discipline of Comparative Literature was not reborn in line with Spivak’s elegiac imperatives. Yet Death of a Discipline’s argument—that literary reading may affirm a certain vagueness and non-knowledge in the outlines of alterity—remains a compelling resource in a world of STEM, calculable probability, and the power of averages. In excess of its topical institutional intervention, Death of a Discipline indicates a range of enveloping generalities that both contain and make room for the future development of new practices in the Humanities. These point beyond the politics of identity and the power of an ideological average, suggesting work to come.
Link to MUSE: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902170
See the other contributions and Soni's Introduction here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rsfo20
Abstract: Helium dramatizes a traumatized witness's attempt to write about India's 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. Depicting his attempt to write an investigative confession of complicity, the novel discloses larger patterns of fantasy, sexual economy, and gender violence that make the pogrom and his own self-story possible. Through a complex narrative framework, Helium shows that unlike legal redress, justice is never present but haunts the present from a future anterior. Helium's literary representations question the idea that literature can document the facts of an historical event so as to raise public consciousness of it, confronting the reader with what remains unsusceptible to narrativization.
Contribution to cluster on "What is the Scale of the Literary Object?" edited by Rebecca Walkowitz.
Examination of "scale" as a literary and theoretical problem in the context of expanding Digital Humanities. Implications and limits for literary reading and topographic generalization. Discussion of Moretti, Marx, Bataille, Heidegger, and Bengali autobiography of Rassundari Dasi.
Follow link to access the article: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/snakes-and-ladders
Contribution to a book edited by Pradip Basu.