Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-04-75100-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mobilizing Memories

What if India were thought of in the plural? Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory reimagines postcolonial cartographies through a poetics of fragments that links islands, coastlines and oceans to decentre India's subcontinental core. A literary critical methodology, drawing on archipelagic theory, island studies, and transoceanic memory work, reveals littoral and island geographies as dynamic and porous sites of creolised cultural memory that unsettle fixed notions of nation, home, and history. Island Indias invites you to navigate a fluid world assembled across discontinuous shores, where memory drifts, ruptures, and resurfaces to make fragmentation a method of world-making.

Contributors are: Rosa Beunel-Fogarty, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Farha Noor, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Shazia Rahman, Luca Raimondi, and Sandrine Soukaï.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara

Raimondi, Luca

Soukai, Sandrine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Über Autor(innen)

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King's College London, and Fellow of the British Academy. She works on creolisation and archipelagicity across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.

Luca Raimondi is Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, where he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow from 2021-2024. He works on literary and cultural geographies of the Indian Ocean, archipelagic studies, and Afro-Asian print cultures.

Sandrine Soukaï (PhD, Paris-Sorbonne) is a Senior Lecturer in Anglophone Studies at Gustave Eiffel University. Her research spans postcolonial literatures and theory, memory and trauma in literature and the arts, with a focus on South Asian literatures, Partition studies, indentureship and its legacies, Caribbean cultures, creolisation, and archipelagic studies. She has published essays in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including Postcolonial Literatures and Arts, Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, Synergies Inde, Commonwealth Essays and Studies and Archipélies. She serves on the boards of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and the French Postcolonial Studies Society.