Dr. Prem Poddar
Research Project: On Top of the Chicken's Neck: Writing the Eastern Himalayas
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Telefon: +49-(0)30-80307-109
Selected Publications:
Essays and Chapters
‘The uses of the Passport: The Chess Players and narratives of British nationhood’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2010. |
‘Passage to Cosmopolistan: Diaspora in Britain’, in Diasporic Writing: the Dynamics of Belonging, Delhi: IGNOU, 2010. |
‘Afterlife of the Original: Gorkhaness and Rai in Translation’, in I.B. Rai in Translation, (eds.), Prem Poddar and Anmole Prasad, Gangtok: Mukti Prakashan, 2008. |
‘Introduction: Postcolonial Europes’ (co-author: Rajeev Patke and Lars Jensen) in Postcolonial Literatures in Continental Europe and its Empires, Edinburgh University Press, 2008. |
‘”In a small country like ours…”: Imagining Inuit Identity’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2007. |
‘Passports, Empire, Subjects’ in Empire and After, eds. Poddar and MacPhee, Berghahn Press, 2007. |
‘Introduction: Nationalism beyond the Nation-state’, in Empire and After, eds. Poddar and MacPhee, Berghahn Press, 2007. |
‘The Power of Mantras: Postcoloniality, Education, Development’, Pedagogy, Culture,Society, 14 (2), 2006. |
‘Danish Imperial Fantasies: Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow’ in Translating Nations. |
‘Stating Culture: Colonial Matrices’, Journal of Cultural Research 7(3), 2004. |
‘Introduction: Violent Civilities’ in Translating Nations.
Migrant Markings…of Sense and Circumstance’, of Journal of American Ethnic History, 2000. |
‘Designing Destinations: The Occidental Tourist’. In Wonder that is Culture. Ed. Tanka Subba. Mittal Publications, 1999. |
‘Scopic America’: Casting a Postcolonial Eye’, in Other America(n)s. Ed. Magdalena Zaborowska. Aarhus University Press, 1998. |
‘Secularism as an Idea Will Change: Interview with Homi Bhabha’, The Book Review, January 1995. Republished in The Hindu. |
Books
Gorkhas Imagined
Indra Bahadur Rai Translation
Edited by Prem Poddar and Anmole Prasad
Mukti Prakashan, Kalimpong, 2009
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A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires
Edited by Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke and Lars Jensen
Edinburgh University Press, 2008, 688p. |
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Empire and After
Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
Edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar
Berghahn, Oxford, 2007, 211p.
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Postcolonial Literatures in English
Edited by David Johnson and Prem Poddar
Edinburgh University Pres, 2005, 608p. |
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Postkolonial
kontra-modernitet
Forlaget Modtryk. Århus. 2004, 133p. |
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Violent Civilities: English, India, Culture
Aarhus University Press, 2002, 228p. |
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Translating Nations
Aarhus University Press, 2000, 269p. |
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Forthcoming Books
Inventing the Future: Fin de siècle Fantasies (co-author Andrew Watt), under review
Imagining the Indian Ocean (co-editors David Johnson and Stephanie Jones), Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press |
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