Avni Sejpal Awarded Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship
Avni has been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for summer 2019, which will take her to London. Here’s Avni’s description of her research project:
"This project, 'Indentured Imaginaries,' studies postcolonial literary narratives and memoirs alongside colonial records of labour and migration archived at the British Library in London. By engaging this archive, I will look closely at the ways in which dispossessed subjects of empire—in particular, indentured workers shunted from British colonies in Asia to sugar plantations in Africa and the Caribbean—are figured in both historical documents as well as the postcolonial writing of Amitav Ghosh and Gaiutra Bahadur. In doing so, I seek to understand how literary texts from the Global South narrate the advent of colonial modernity and cosmopolitanism from below in ways that subtend, exceed, and even subvert the historical record as well as national literary paradigms."
Congratulations, Avni!
"This project, 'Indentured Imaginaries,' studies postcolonial literary narratives and memoirs alongside colonial records of labour and migration archived at the British Library in London. By engaging this archive, I will look closely at the ways in which dispossessed subjects of empire—in particular, indentured workers shunted from British colonies in Asia to sugar plantations in Africa and the Caribbean—are figured in both historical documents as well as the postcolonial writing of Amitav Ghosh and Gaiutra Bahadur. In doing so, I seek to understand how literary texts from the Global South narrate the advent of colonial modernity and cosmopolitanism from below in ways that subtend, exceed, and even subvert the historical record as well as national literary paradigms."
Congratulations, Avni!
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