Sanyal Mithu - Identitti A Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: " Provocative and knotty Identitti is a bracing story one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out." Olivia Craighead The New York Times Nivedita (a. k. a. Identitti) a well - known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisor superstar postcolonial and race studies South - Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita's praise of her professor during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks and before she learns the truth calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media blogs and among her closest friends Nivedita's assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor. In her thought - provoking genre - bending debut Mithu Sanyal solicited the contributions and commentary of public intellectuals as if Saraswati were a real person. A darkly comedic tour de force Identitti showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and the power of claiming your own voice.
Title: Identitti A Novel
Author(s): Sanyal Mithu
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Barcode: 9781662601293
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 7/26/2022
Category: Fiction In Translation