Publications
Edited volumes
Articles and Book Chapters (Select)
“Postcolonial Little Magazines in India : ‘Signatures of Dissent’ and Worldliness”, in Toral Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Jack Webb eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures, London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, pp. 39-56.
“Trafficked! Indian-American Little Magazines Networks and the Arvind Krishna Mehrotra/HowardMcCord Correspondence”, Post 45 Contemporaries Cluster, 2023.
“Clearing a Space for Multiple, Marginal Voices: The Writers’ Activism of PEN”, with P. McDonald, M. Orford, R. Potter, C. Torner, in Sandra Mayer and Ruth Scobie eds., Authorship, Activism, Celebrity: Art and Action in Global Literature, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 31-44.
“Archives of Minority: Little Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Postcolonial Bombay”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45: 2 (2022): 268-284.
“Struggles for ‘Cultural Freedom’ in Cold War India: Fostering a Critical Spirit in the Liberal Journals of the 1950s’-70s”, in Greg Barnhisel ed., The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 357-372.
“The Meanings, Forms and Exercise of ‘Freedom’: The Indian PEN and the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom (1930s-1960s),” in F. Orsini, N. Srivastava and L. Zecchini eds., The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022, pp. 192-227.
“Activisme et littérature : quelques exemples à partir de l’Inde”, Multitudes 2022/2, N°87 : 84-91.
“‘What Filters Through the Curtain’: Reconsidering Indian Modernisms, Travelling Literatures and Little Magazines in a Cold War Context”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22:2 (2020):172-194.
“Une ‘République des sentiments blessés’ ? : Censure(s), communautés vulnérables et guerres culturelles en Inde”, Communications, 106 (2020) :101-119.
“Practices, Constructions and Deconstructions of ‘World Literature’ and ‘Indian Literature’ from the PEN All-India Centre to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Journal of World Literature, 4: 1 (2019): 81-105.
“Hurt and Censorship in India Today: On Communities of Sentiments, Competing Vulnerabilities and Cultural Wars”, in Amélie Blom and Stéphanie Tawa Lama Rewal, Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics, New Delhi: Routledge India, 2019, pp. 243-263.
“Postcolonial South Asian Poetry”, in Jahan Ramazani ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 45-57.
“Translation as Literary Activism: On Invisibility and Exposure, Arun Kolatkar and the Little Magazine Conspiracy”, in Amit Chaudhuri, ed., Literary Activism: A Symposium, OUP /Boiler House Press, 2017, pp. 25-55 (also available online here : https://www.literaryactivism.com/translation-as-literary-activism/)
“Adil Jussawalla and the Double Edge of Poetry”, in Rosinka Chaudhuri ed., The Cambridge History of Indian Poetry in English, Cambridge: CUP, 2016, pp. 251-266.
“Penser le modernisme à partir de l’Inde : Traduction et braconnage, recyclage et renouvellement”, Littérature, 04 (2016) : 96-11.
“De-Orientalizing ‘Indian Literature’ and Indian Literary History? On Native / Foreign Dialectics and the Politics of Translation”, in Anne Tomiche ed., Le Comparatisme comme approche critique, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016, pp. 327-344.
“A Message in a Bottle’: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French”, in Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose eds., New Soundings in Postcolonial Writings, Critical and Creative Contours, Brill-Rodopi, 2016, pp. 113-128.
“No Name is Yours until you Speak it’: Notes Towards a Contrapuntal Reading of Dalit Literatures and Postcolonial Theory”, in Judith Misrahi Barak and Joshil K.Abraham eds., Dalit Literatures in India, New Delhi: Routledge, 2015, pp. 58-75.
“ ‘Crisis in Literary History?’ Du nativisme et du provincialisme, et de quelques autres débats intellectuels en Inde”, Revue de Littérature Comparée, 04 (2015) : 391-404.
“Contemporary Bhakti Recastings: Recovering a Demotic Tradition, Challenging Nativism, Fashioning Modernism in Indian Poetry”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 16: 2 (2014): 257 – 276.
“Figures de l’errance et de la dissidence: le dévot (bhakta) et le vagabond dans la poésie indienne contemporaine”, in Z. Ben Lagha and E. Feuillebois-Pierunek eds., Les Figures du marginal dans la littérature, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014, pp. 143-166.
“Moving Lines: The Celebration of Impropriety and the Renewal of the World in Arun Kolatkar’s Poetry”, in Catherine Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer eds., Burning Books: Interaction and Negotiations of Fundamentalism and Literature, New York: AMS Press, 2012, pp. 163-188
“Modernism in Indian Poetry: ‘At the time, we didn’t dissociate between East and West, it was just part of Bombay’”, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 34:1 (2011): 33-42.
“Le postcolonial dans ses allers-retours transatlantiques : glissements, malentendus, réinventions”, Revue Française d’Études Américaines, ‘American Theory: French Receptions’, 126 (2010) : 66-81.
“Je suis le multiple: exil historique et métaphorique dans l’œuvre d’Edward Said”, Tumultes 35 (2010): 49-66.
For a full list of articles and book chapters, please consult the CV, and for a selection of non-academic essays please consult the section Outreach.
Interviews with Writers (Published & select)
- “‘When My Own Writing is My Enemy’: Notes on Perumal Murugan and an Interview with the Writer”, SAMAJ, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, forthcoming May 2024.
- “‘Before the Battle’: Karthika Naïr in Conversation with Laetitia Zecchini”, in Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose eds., Creative Lives: Interviews with Twelve Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Writers, Ibidem/CUP, 2021, pp. 192-211.
- “India’s Season of Dissent : An Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr”, in ‘The Hindutva Turn: Authoritarianism and Resistance in India’”, SAMAJ, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Numéro 24-25 (2020).
- “’More than One World’: An Interview with Gulammohammed Sheikh”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53: 1-2 (2017): 69-82.
- “’We were like Cartographers, Mapping the City’: An Interview with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53: 1-2 (2017): 190-206.
- “’Perhaps I am Happier being on the Sidelines’: An Interview with Adil Jussawalla”, (with Anjali Nerlekar), Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53: 1-2 (2017): 221-232.
- “‘I had to Construct Lineages for Myself’: An Interview with Amit Chaudhuri”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53: 1-2 (2017): 255- 263
- “We all have a Genuine Fear of Violence Erupting in a Most Savage and Uncontrollable Way”: An Interview with Adil Jussawalla, writers and free expression website, 2018
- “We are Talking of More than Writers’ Rights, we are Talking of Letting People Live” : An Interview with Githa Hariharan, writers and free expression website, 2017
- “From a Very Young Age, in fact, I used to Collect Books that Were Banned” : An Interview with Salil Tripathi, writers and free expression website, 2017