http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com Reading Writing Teaching Thu, 15 May 2008 00:35:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pablo Bartholomew’s beautiful photo-show Outside In opened in Manhattan a few evenings ago. The exhibition is being held at Bodhi Art in Chelsea. Black-and-white photographs from the seventies and the eighties—reflecting Bartholomew’s engagement with people and places in Delhi, Bombay, and Calcutta. These are not the pictures that made Bartholomew famous. ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/one-chai-and-a-wills-navy-cut/ So, once again we are told that literary criticism is ready to kick the bucket. But wait, Jonathan Gottschall has a cure! Literary studies should become more like the sciences. Literature professors should apply science’s research methods, its theories, its statistical tools, and its insistence on hypothesis and proof. Instead ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/12/literary-studies/ Staged reading of a new play, Sangeet, by Ranbir Sidhu Sunday, May 18, 5-7 pm Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College, NYC 25th street between Lexington and Third (closer to Lex, on the south side of the street) It’s London in the early 80s and Hrpreet Arora and Vicki Peckham wanna get married. The ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/12/ranbir-sidhus-sangeet/ Obama’s top ten choices are likely to include: Kathleen Sebelius Sebelius’s name has been cropping up more and more frequently. The two-term Governor of Kansas fills in many of the gaps in Obama’s support base. She may not have much foreign policy experience but she’ll bring a red state with her. And ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/11/obamas-vp/ …but you can paint the colors in with a broom! Nacche baliye! Via http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/there-aint-no-black-in-the-union-jack/ Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/toni-morrison-explains-her-clinton-comment/ Outside In 70s & 80s A Tale of 3 Cities Photographs by Pablo Bartholomew 8th May - 14th June, 2008 at Bodhi Art, New York A visual diary of Pablo’s earlier days, Outside In 70s & 80s A Tale of 3 cities… comprises of resonant photographs of people whose youth is variously evoked and celebrated. ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/pablo-bartholomew/ There was nothing neutral about watching fellow white southern Africans – one who lives in the U.S. and one who lives in South Africa – talk about their powerful, groundbreaking memoirs (Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Scribbling the Cat and Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart). It ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/06/south-african-memoirs/ I walk along the beach, on the hot sand, until I reach one of the piers. Long and thin, it stretches into the ocean, like some menacing reptilian claw. The beach is chewed away here. I can see the hard red sediment that was once compressed several layers below the ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/04/granta-101/ Click here for a 2006 lecture “Primo Levi for the Present” by Judith Butler. What is on view here is a characteristic ability to make important philosophical distinctions which allow a case to be made for progressive politics. Also, in the same series of lectures from the European Graduate School, you ... http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/05/03/judith-butler-on-primo-levi/