Session Details

Friday, 07 January

227. Class Conflict in South Asian Cultural Production

10:15–11:30 a.m., 304C, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the South Asian Literary Association

Presiding: Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice, City Univ. of New York

1. “Class in South Asian Diasporic Literature,” Aruna Krishnamurthy, Fitchburg State Coll.

2. “What Comes after Magic Realism? Class and History in Contemporary South Asian Novels in English,” Pranav Jani, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

3. “What’s Left of Class? Cultural Production in Liberalized India,” Nivedita Majumdar

4. “Poor like Them: Representations of Poverty in South Asian Cinema,” Ankhi Mukherjee, Univ. of Oxford, Wadham Coll.

For abstracts, write to nmajumdar@jjay.cuny.edu.

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