The Islands Within: Alterity, Imperialism and the Metroport in Mauritian Fiction

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  • Namrata Poddar

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Author Biography

Namrata Poddar

Namrata Poddar is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Program (titled “Cultures in Transnational Perspective”) and Visiting Assistant Professor in French & Francophone, African and Global Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in French studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Summer 2010 where she defended her dissertation titled “Paradoxes of Insularity: Re-navigating the Island through the Contemporary Mauritian Francophone Novel.” Her current book project, an expansion of her doctoral thesis, explores the various ways in which the boat, the seaport and the beach – as a nexus of dynamic maritime sites – instantiate a paradoxical poetics of insularity and minor transnationalism in Mauritian fiction. Her research is situated at the intersection of postcolonial, diaspora, urban, tourism, and literary-environmental studies.

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Published

2019-10-31

Issue

No. 94 (2011): Lost Oceans

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