SAH Commons | Kanika Batra | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/kanika/activity/ Activity feed for Kanika Batra. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bb84c418bccc65a521499c89c8e0d119 Kanika Batra posted an update in the group Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean: I support the creation of this group. I cannot volunteer for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1603874/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:12:42 -0400 I support the creation of this group. I cannot volunteer for a co-leadership position this year as I’m presiding over the Forum on South Asian and Diasporic literatures for 2019. We can think of a collaborative panel if the CLCS Indian Ocean gets approved.

]]> 0 d4b8b48997cae49ce226d4010f3f4c4f Kanika Batra wrote a new post, Hello world!, on the site Theorizing Anger http://conferneces.hcommons.org/?p=1 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:56:04 -0500  For the MLA 2018 convention, my colleague and I are putting together a special session on “Teaching, Writing, and Theorizing Anger.” A slightly extended CFP is below, along with the link to the MLA CFP entry: […]

]]> 8b61c832eb0a10fc684f4eeead84add3 Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588767/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:49:58 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 454f3d6cbef656b4c49b82e6c36a681d Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1588766/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:49:57 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 76e87041afe2014708d3551664ea721e Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588765/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:47:27 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 22ca0838b7688cc5da01bd302f41b8b8 Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588764/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:44:37 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2c9e3bf36911ccbb366e28dc42dd11e Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588756/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:36:30 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 20c415aa04f9b4e8346ab6f923d04f80 Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588307/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:38:08 -0500 Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a6929c628b1a5a35114bd7e7de9efe Kanika Batra wrote a new post, CFP: Human Rights Now: Texts, Contexts, Comparisons, on the site 50th Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium, April 6-7, 2018 http://techcomplit.mla.hcommons.org/?p=4 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:18:10 -0500 Anti-apartheid activist, Bishop Desmond Tutu, explained the African concept of “Ubuntu” in this way: “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.” If connection is a way of being human, […]

]]> 887146fefdd85b68c3c055209e29cd6e Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571627/ Fri, 26 May 2017 01:23:20 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16ceeea941e4ec6a6f89e19c0a29ab2 Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571624/ Fri, 26 May 2017 01:17:58 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c906a1908b5dc56570782bd06e12315 Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571623/ Fri, 26 May 2017 01:10:06 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 caa10d948e3ff02e2c49b7dc0858db17 Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571622/ Fri, 26 May 2017 01:07:39 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee35b4a21526923963491c9aac672047 Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571621/ Fri, 26 May 2017 01:00:02 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 0696f1972c3d6cf43affe9b6ccc1898b Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571546/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:20:20 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 86c70c6a9406a251f5c6d1984c8662b6 Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571545/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:12:36 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 7658e8fadfabb22e6b1b9ba49d67ee51 Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571543/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:10:20 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 18ebbcf05536700fb245020ebd1da457 Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571542/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:07:43 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 e172cfd9098d9ca50d4892da3b8c2a8d Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571541/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:00:08 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 0c3809e374fcb0cd0c97adcf74b8e0fd Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571525/ Wed, 24 May 2017 20:33:57 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4af89de8c08c11f27f2148ca6c751f1 Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571523/ Wed, 24 May 2017 20:26:00 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 abc197aa9daf80b7b9e518a170a51cd6 Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group LLC African to 1990 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571522/ Wed, 24 May 2017 20:24:13 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffdd62b95a532edbbef1c0f98dc80c37 Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571517/ Wed, 24 May 2017 20:13:04 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 08850fc0c8398893a425ed9626c4b1d7 Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571514/ Wed, 24 May 2017 20:10:00 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd86c0276c962733140bef0cf3653cac Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571454/ Wed, 24 May 2017 05:00:41 -0400 Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e74e6eacccd927fb30d73b201a0c8b Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571453/ Wed, 24 May 2017 04:48:51 -0400 Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more]

]]> 0 908c0f81fca149fd559d6d202b868c6c Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571452/ Wed, 24 May 2017 04:39:22 -0400 My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.

]]> 0 d98a1271edd737a6f632d0927a675d7a Kanika Batra's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571451/ Wed, 24 May 2017 04:22:41 -0400 0 3311bc6536ca749c01011b3ca825d5b5 Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564624/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:31:40 -0400 City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

]]> 0 b946d3c54531a61023369c663b3d8e48 Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564623/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:20:40 -0400 City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

]]> 0 c597cd80c121844517cf8232336cbbc6 Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564622/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:18:06 -0400 City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

]]> 0 78be4e20725af9715208dc5aaec6468e Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564618/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:10:04 -0400 City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

]]> 0 b9ffe735365d8ce66ff23f9c30285290 Kanika Batra's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/93468/ Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:30:31 -0500 0