PUBLICATIONS

I.
ACADEMIC AND CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS

Academic Books
 
1 BABU FICTIONS: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. 407 pages. ISBN 019562967.
    
3 ANGLES on the English Speaking World, Vol 1, Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001. Number on Indian English Fiction, co-edited with Nanette Hale. 152 pages. ISBN 8772896728. ISSN 09031723.

4 AMITAV GHOSH: A Critical Companion. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003. 185 pages. ISBN 8178240742.

5 ASYLUM AND MIGRATION. Prince Claus Journal No 11, The Hague: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, December 2004, 112 pages, ISSN 13885456.

6 OTHER ROUTES: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. Edited by Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin Edwards and Hanna Ziadeh. Introduction by Tabish Khair. Foreword by Amitav Ghosh. Oxford: Signal Books, co-published with Indiana University Press (USA). 2006. 420 pages.

7 MUSLIM MODERNITIES: Essays on Moderation and Mayhem, 2000-2007. Delhi: Vitasta, 2008. c. 350 pages.

8. GHOSTS FROM THE COLONIES: Gothic Fiction, Postcolonialism and the Other. Tentative title. In progress. Expected year of publication: 2009.

WORK NEARING COMPLETION (Please contact Siyahi)

THE LANGUAGE OF EMPTINESS (Poems based on stories by H. C. Andersen; exp date of completion December 2008; c 65 pages)

FIGURES IN THE FOG (Crime novel set in Victorian London; exp date of completion June 2009; c 250 pages)



PAPERS in Peer-Review Journals and Academic Anthologies:

9 “Caste in Indian English Fiction: More Oppression?”, Kunapipi, XIX, 1, England/Australia, 1997, p. 78-84.

10 “Self-estrangement and R.K. Narayan”, Indian Literature, 178, Delhi, March-April 1997, p. 148-155.

11 “Situating the Rhetoric of Exile”, Angles, 10, English Department, Copenhagen University, 1997, p. 53-61.

12 “From Hai Bread! To Hybrid”, Manuscript, 2, 2, English Department, University of Manchester, Winter 1997/98, p.48-61.

13 “Hybrid: An Essay in Evasion”, The Book Review, XXII, 4, Delhi, April 1998, p. 29-33.

14 “Raja Rao and Alien Universality”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 33, 1, East Grinstead (Sussex), 1998, p. 75-84.

15 “Rushdie’s Recipe for Newness: What is Burning?”, Haritham: Journal of the School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, No 11, 1999, p. 64-94.

16 “The Rape of Parwana: Mukul Kesavan’s Inscription of History and Agency”, Kunapipi, XXII, 2, England/Australia, 2000, p. 3-9.

17 “Caste and the Indian English Conscience”, in Colonizer and Colonized: Studies in Comparative Literature, Ed. by Theo D’haen and Patricia Krüs, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000, p. 89-96.

18 “The Knowledge of Loss, The Loss of Knowledge: Lahiri, Deshpande, Devi”, Angles on the English Speaking World, Volume 1, University of Copenhagen, 2001, p. 139-144.

19 “Modernism and Modernity: The Patented Fragments”, Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture, Vol 55, London, Summer 2001, p. 3-13.

20 “The Language of Indian Poetry in English”, Kavya Bharati, No 13, American College, Madurai, 2001, p. 109-118.

21 “Remembering to Forget Abu Taleb”, Wasafiri, No 34, London, Autumn 2001, p. 34-38.

22 “Godly Nations”, Radical Philosophy Review: Journal of the Radical Philosophy Association, Vol 4, Nos. 1 & 2, San Francisco, 2001, p. 229-246.

23 “ ‘Correct(ing) Images from the Inside’: Reading the Limits of Erna Brodber’s Myal”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol 37, No 1, East Grinstead (Sussex), 2002, p. 121-132.

24 “Can the Subaltern Shout (and Smash)?”, World Literature Written in English, Vol 38, No 2, 2000 (2003), Northampton, p. 7-16.

25 “The Calcutta Chromosome: The Question of Subaltern Agency”, Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion. Ed. Tabish Khair, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003, p. 142-161.

26 “Indian English Poetry: Problems of Language and Prosody”, A World of Local Voices: Poetry in English Today. Eds. Klaus Martens, Paul Morris, Arlette Warken. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003, p. 55-62.

27 “No Golden Gate for Indian English Poetry?: Reading Vikram Seth’s Novel in Verse in the Context of Indian Poetry in English”, Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Ed. GJV Prasad. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2004. p. 49-59.

28 “Shashi Tharoor”, A Companion to Indian Fiction in English. Ed. Pier Paolo Piciucco. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2004, p. 300-311.

29 “Postcolonial Studies: A Paradigm for Interdisciplinarity?” The Object of Study in the Humanities. Ed. Julio Hans Casado Jensen. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004, p. 101-112.

30 “Emotions in Indian Poetics”, Critical Theory: Perspectives from Asia. Ed. Naqi Husain Jafri. New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia and Creative Books (‘Studies in Literature and Ideas’ series), 2004, p. 395-403.

31 “The Politics of the Perception of Human Movement”, Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe, Ed. and Introduced by Sandra Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla, New York and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2005, p. 67-78.

32 ‘African and Asian Travel Texts in the Light of Europe: An Introduction’, Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. Edited by Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin Edwards and Hanna Ziadeh. London: Signal Books (in collaboration with Indiana University Press), 2005, p. 1-27.

33 ‘Travel and Immigration: A Working Paper on Aspects of the Politics of the (Post)Colonial’, Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries: India and its Diaspora(s). Ed. Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and Vera Alexander. Münster: Lit Verlag (Transcultural Anglophone Studies), 2006, p. 173-182.

34 ‘The Death of the Reader’, Wasafiri 21:3, November 2006, London: Routledge, 1-5.

35 ‘The Memory of Postcolonialism’, Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions. Ed. Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich and Roy Sommer. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2006, p. 259-264.

36 ‘‘Let me in!" let me in!’: The Voice of Terror from Elsewhere,’ The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 42:2, 2006, London: Routledge/University College of Northampton, 155-163.

37 ‘Universal Matters; Universals Matter’, Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, Ed. Anke Bartels and Dirk Wiemann, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007, p 199-214.

38 ‘Echoes of Hieroglyphs: Language in Indian Poetry in English,’ P. N. Review, 177, Vol 34, No 1, September-October 2007, Glasgow: University of Glasgow (Carcanet Press, Manchester), 20-24.

39 (Forthcoming) ‘Beyond the Drawing Room: The Plays of Nissim Ezekiel’, Paper, to be published in 2007 by Sahitya Akademi (Delhi) in an anthology being edited by Havovi Enklesaria, Bombay University, India.

40 (Forthcoming) ‘Not Supposed to be Here: Edward Said and the Great Colonial Vanishing Trick’, Paper, to be published in 2007 in an anthology being edited by Bibhash Chaudhuri, Gauhati University, India.

41 (Forthcoming) ‘Twixt the Twain: Salman Rushdie’s Zubaan-Tongue’, Paper, to be published in 2006/7 by Blackwell (Oxford) in a casebook of papers on literary languages. Ed. by Professors Michael Matto and Haruko Momma, USA.


REVIEWS, ARTICLES and ESSAYS:

42 “The Making of the Indian English novel”, Anglofiles, 94, Aarhus, December 1995, p. 23-28.

43 “The Moor’s Last Sigh: Elegy to an Empty Grave”, essay (literary criticism), London Magazine, Vol 35, Nos. 11 & 12, London, Feb-March 1996, p. 149-151.

44 “A ‘Problematique’ of the Postcolonial”, Anglofiles, 99, Aarhus, Nov 1996, p. 15-18.

45 “Brilliant og begrænset” (Review of Rushdie and West’s The Vintage Books of Indian Writing), Standart, Vol 11, No 4, Oct-Dec 1997, Aarhus, p. 15

46 “On the Surface of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry”, Anglofiles, No 110, Aarhus, Feb 1999, p. 51-55.

47 “Why Post-Colonialism Hates Revolutions”, critical essay, Wasafiri, No. 30, London, Autumn 1999, p. 5-8. (Also published in Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol IV, Nos 5 & 6, New Delhi, May-June 1999, p. 15-16.

48 “Stilistiske Yderpunkter” (Review in Danish of the Danish translations of Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Ferozeshah Baag and Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay), Kontakt: Internationalt Magasin, No. 4, Copenhagen, August 1999, p. 48.

49 “Words Say More than We Hear”, Review of two poetry collections and a translation of folk poetry, Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol IV, Nos 11 & 12, Delhi, November-December 1999, p. 19.

50 “The Indigenous Cosmopolitan”, Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol V, Nos 5-6, Delhi, May-June 2000.

51 “The Fissured Surface of Language in Indian English Poetry”, P.N. Review, Manchester, 132, Vol 26, No 4, March-April 2000, p. 7-9.

52 “The Ideology of Play”, essay (criticism and theory), New Left Review, Series 2, No 2, London, March-April 2000, p. 125-131.

53 “Kipling on the Phantom Rickshaw: Between Words and a Hard Place”, essay on Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, P. N. Review, 27:1, Manchester, Sept.-Oct. 2000, p. 9-10.

54 “Tomorrow’s Man, Yesterday” (Francis Wheen’s Karl Marx), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol V, Nos 1 & 2, Delhi, January-February 2000, p. 8.

55 “Dansk identitet:en konstruktion af provisionalisme og nationalisme”, Dansk Uden Tårer, Anthology of 16 long essays on ‘Danish identity’ edited by Herbert Pundik and Louise Haslund-Christensen, Copenhagen: Politiken, 2001, p. 137-146.

56 “Probing an Amnesiac Use of Memory”, Cultural Logic, 2: 2, April 2002, USA, http://eserver.org/clogic/2-2/khair.html

57 Review of Christopher GoGwilt’s The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire, Interventions, 2:1, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 148 - 149.

58 “History, Agency and Mukul Kesavan: An Essay”, Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol V, Nos 7&8, Delhi, July-August 2000, p. 6-7.

59 Review of Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace and Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World. Wasafiri, No 32, Autumn 2000, London, p. 62-64.

60 “Billederne, verden og værternes billeder”, Salt, 5 October 2000, p. 10-11.

61 “Superior Reality” (Essay on Cyberpunk), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol V, Nos 11 & 12, Delhi, Nov-Dec 2000, p. 9.

62 Review of Nirmal Verma’s India and Europe: Selected Essays, Indian Review of Books, Vol 10, No 4, Madras, 15 Jan-16 Feb 2001, p. 23-24.

63 “Fleeing the P Words” (Review of Amitava Kumar’s Passport Photos), Biblio: A Review of Books. Jan-Feb 2001, Vol VI, Nos 1 & 12, New Delhi, p. 4.

64 Review of Katha: Volume 10, Indian Review of Books, Vol 10, No 6, Madras, 15 Mar-16 Apr 2001, p. 29.

65 “Across Divisions (An essay on Language and Literature)”, Katha Kshetre, Vol II, No 3, Bangalore, July-Sept 2001, p. 14-16.

66 “Subaltern Studies: Hegemony and Speech”, Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol 5, No 3, North Carolina State University, USA, Summer 2001, p. 17-19.

67 “The Poetry of Commerce, Empire and Nationhood” (Review of Suvir Kaul’s Poems of Nations, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century). Biblio: A Review of Books. September-October 2001, Vol VI, Nos 9 & 10, New Delhi, p. 5-6.

68 “But it Still Moves: The Politics of Human Movement. An Essay on Travel Writing”, Biblio: A Review of Books. September-October 2001, Vol VI, Nos 9 & 10, New Delhi, p. 30-32.

69 “Rushdie’s Last Sigh” (review of Salman Rushdie’s Fury), Biblio: A Review of Books (Special issue on Cosmopolitanism and the Nation-State, guest edited by Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair), March-April 2002, New Delhi, p 44-45.

70 Review of Romesh Gunesekera’s Heaven’s Edge, The Hindu, Literary Supplement, Madras, 7 July 2002.

71 Review of Susheila Nasta’s Home Truths, Wasafiri, No 36, London, Summer 2002, p. 66-67.

72 Review of Albert Memmi’s Racism, Interventions, 4: 3, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 463-464.

73 ‘A Situated Cosmopolitanism’, (Review of Aamer Hussein’s Turqoise), Biblio: A Review of Books, No 11 & 12, Vol VII, Nov-Dec 2002, p. 8.

74 ‘Mere end ét slør skal løftes: Misforståelser og fejltagelser i udlændingedebatten’, Kritik, No 162/163, Copenhagen, 2003, p. 124-129.

75 ‘The Suggestion of Sorrow’ (Review of Mimi Khalvati’s The Chine and Sujata Bhatt’s A Colour of Solitude), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol VIII, Nos. 3 & 4, March-April 2003, Delhi, p. 35-36.

76 ‘Unpolicing the Candle’, Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol VIII, Nos. 7 & 8, July-August 2003, New Delhi, p. 39.

77 ‘Hating America’ (Review of Sardar and Davies’s Why Do People Hate America?), The Hindu Literary Supplement, 06 July 2003, Chennai, p. 2.

78 Review of Shashi Deshpande’s Collected Stories. Wasafiri, 40, Winter 2003, London, p. 68-69.

79 ‘Bollywood and the Babus’, Anglofiles: Journal of English Teaching, No 131, Feb 2004, Copenhagen/Aarhus: The Danish Association of Teachers of English, p. 47-51.

80 “Døre, der lukkes”, Passage: tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik, 50, Summer 2004, Aarhus, p. 36-37.

81 ‘Hungama Hai Kyo Barpa: Another look at Asylum and Migration’, Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. IX, Nos 11 & 12, November-December 2004, New Delhi, p. 11-12.

82 ‘Foreigners, Fibs and Fairytales’ (Article on H. C. Andersen), The Hindu, Literary Review, 6 February 2005, Chennai (Madras), p. 1.

83 ‘A Once-popular Art, or, Can the Subaltern Chant?’, Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly, Vol 2, Number 2, February 2005, Dhaka (Bangladesh), p. 14-17.

84 ‘Our Friends from the Sky’ (Review of Bryan Appleyrard’s Aliens: Why They Are Here), Book Review, The Guardian, London, 09. 04.2005, p. 15.

85 ‘Dig Down to the Roots’ (Review of Siddhartha Deb’s Surface and Aamer Hussein’s This Other Salt), Book Review, The Guardian, London, 23. 04.2005, p. 26.

86 ‘Invisible (Coloured) Ghosts in Denmark’, Confluence, London, Vol 4, Number 3, May-June 2005, p. 5.

87 ‘Indian Summary’ (Review of Tarun J. Tejpal’s The Alchemy of Desire), Book Review, The Guardian, London, 21. 05. 2005.

88 ‘Crown of Scars’ (Article on the 17th Century Urdu poet, Vali Mohammed Vali), P. N. Review 165, 32:1, Manchester, p. 9 -10.

89 'True Colours' (Review of Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark), Book Review, The Guardian, London, 10. 09. 2005.

90 'Bleak House' (Review of Justine Hardy's The Wonder House), The Guardian Review, London, 21. 10. 2005, p. 16.

91 'Whose Identity is it anyway?' (Essay on Indian English writing: ‘Commentary’), The Guardian Review, London, 12. 11. 2005, p. 3.

92 ‘The Nukkad Novel’ (Review of Patna Roughcut by Siddharth Chowdhury), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol XI, Nos. 1 & 2, January-February 2006, New Delhi, p. 32.

93 Review of Walter Mosley’s A Red Death and The Man in my Basement. Wasafiri, 47, Spring 2006, London, p. 82-84.

94 ‘The sari-seller’s daughter’ (Review of Manju Kapur’s Home), The Guardian Review, 06.05.06, London, p. 17.

95 ‘Fact and Fiction’ (Review of M. J. Akbar’s Blood Brothers: A Family Saga), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol XI, Nos 5 & 6, May-June 2006, New Delhi, p. 15.

96 ‘Aarhus Diary: Screams, Murmurs, Silences’, Third Text 20:5, September 2006, London: Routledge, 555-560.

97 ‘Suffering as Spectacle’ (Review of Lilie Chouliaraki’s The Spectatorship of Suffering, London: Sage), Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol XI, Nos 11 & 12, November-December 2006, New Delhi, p. 38.

98 ‘Losing The Plot’ (review of Sujit Saraf’s The Peacock Throne), New Statesman, London, 26 February 2007, 2 pages.

99 ‘The ‘share’-value of stories today’, The Hindu Literary Review, Chennai, 1 April 2007, 4 pages.

100 ‘The Art of Eastern Parts in the West’, Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly (Special issue on Sculpture), Dhaka, March 2007, p. 74-77.


ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

101 “Gupta, Sunetra”, Contemporary Novelists (7th Edition), Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer, Detroit, New York, London: St. James Press, 2001.

102 “Chaudhuri, Amit”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 1), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p 220-1.

103 “Dharker, Imtiaz”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 1), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p. 364-5.

104 “Bhatt, Sujata”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 1), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p 118.

105 “Hussein, Aamer”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 2), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p 701-2.

106 “Kesavan, Mukul”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 2), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p. 764.

107 “Travel Literature (India)”, Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (2nd Edition, Volume 3), Ed. by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, p. 1583-84.

108 “Castes: South Asia”, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, Ed by Prem Poddar and David Johnson, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005, p. 91-95.

109 “English in India: 18th and 19th Centuries”, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, Ed by Prem Poddar and David Johnson, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005, p. 137-142.

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II.
Some recent articles in NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES:

110 “Umenneskelig Retigheder”, kronik (essay in Danish), Politiken, Copenhagen, 19.12.1997
111 “Psst… Politisk Korrekthed”, kronik (essay in Danish), Politiken, Copenhagen, 11.02.1998
112 “Hvor længe er man indvandrer?”, kronik (essay in Danish), Politiken, Copenhagen, 11 November 1999.
113 “Os og dem”, kronik (essay in Danish), Politiken, Copenhagen, 28 April 2000.
114 “Nørrebro og Verden”, kronik (essay in Danish), Politiken, Copenhagen, 31 August 2000.
115 “Ingen tid til kaffe in København” (Kronik: Tro & Filosofi), Information, Copenhagen, 26 September 2001. Also appeared in English in The Hindu (India) and The Guardian Mail and Weekly (South Africa).
116 ‘British Involvement: An Anomaly?’, The Hindu, Chennai (Madras), 04 May 2003.
117 ‘Tony Blair og hensigternes vildveje’, Weekendavisen, Copenhagen, 9-14 May 2003, p. 11.
118 ‘Glemte muslimske slaver’, kronik, Information, Copenhagen, 24-25 May 2003, p. 10.
119 ‘Derfor mislykkes Haarders ‘ægteskab’’, Information, Copenhagen, 10 December 2003, p. 8.
120 ‘The Colour of Our Passports’, The Hindu (Sunday Magazine), Chennai, 21 December 2003, p. 1.
121 ‘Pas eller ej’, kronik, Information, Copenhagen, 29 December 2003, p. 8.
122 ‘Copenhagen: The Invisible City’, Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly, Vol 1, No 2, Dhaka, November 2003, p. 82-93.
123 ‘Kun frihed for kapitalen’, kronik, Weekendavisen, Copenhagen, 9-15 January 2004, p. 11.
124 ‘Bridge over Rubbled Waters’, Literary Supplement. The Hindu, Madras/Chennai, October 2004, p. 1
125 ‘Læserens fødsel -- og død’, Information, Copenhagen, 25 November 2005, p. 12.
126 ‘A Rose by Another Name’, Literary Supplement, The Hindu, Madras/Chennai, December 2004, p. 1.
127 ‘Danmarks fremmede spøgelser’ (Kronik), Information, Copenhagen, 16-17 April 2005, p. 33.
128 ‘We have lost our voice’, Op Ed, The Guardian, London, 7 February 2006.
129 ‘Wuthering Heights’, The Independent, London, 20 July 2007.

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III.
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

The Bus Stopped (Novel). London and Delhi: Picador, 2004.
Where Parallel Lines Meet (Poetry). Delhi: Penguin, 2000.
An Angel in Pyjamas (Novel). Delhi: Harper Collins, 1997.
Filming: A Love Story. London and Delhi: Picador, July 2007.

Forthcoming illustrated book for children (4-6 years):
Glum Peacock. Delhi: Kali for Women. 2008.


Poetry and short fiction also published in
    
India: The Telegraph Colour Magazine, Mirror, Debonair, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, Literature Alive, Poetry India, Kavya Bharati, The Indian PEN, Skylark, India World, Poet etc

UK: The Independent, London Magazine, Wasafiri, P. N. Review, Metre, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Stand Magazine, The Rialto, Fire, Anvil Poets 3, The Lines Review, Thumbscrew, Vigil etc

USA: The Massachusetts Review, Story Quarterly, The Literary Review, Fulcrum etc

And in translation in Danish, German, French, Urdu, Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Japanese and Greek journals, newspapers and anthologies.