Amit Baishya
@amitbaishya.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Postcolonialist, South Asian Literatures, Anthropocene, Human Animal Studies, Plant Humanities, Northeast Indian Studies.
Book Reviews Editor at "South Asian Review"
Book Reviews Editor at "South Asian Review"
Review 44: Migration of Metaphors by Sumon Rahman (Dhaka UP); reviewed by Md Hasan Ashik Rahman
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Review 44: Migration of Metaphors by Sumon Rahman (Dhaka UP); reviewed by Md Hasan Ashik Rahman
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Review 43: Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Duke UP) reviewed by Shailee Rajak:
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October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Review 43: Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Duke UP) reviewed by Shailee Rajak:
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My review essay on Plant Theory in This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory:
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Plant Theory
Abstract. In this review of works in the plant humanities, I focus on how five major publications from 2024 engage with and amplify some of the major conce
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October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My review essay on Plant Theory in This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory:
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Review 42: Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature (SUNY Press) reviewed by Moinak Banerjee:
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October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Review 42: Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature (SUNY Press) reviewed by Moinak Banerjee:
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Review 41: Colonizing Kashmir by Hafsa Kanjwal (Stanford UP); reviewer: Shabeeh Rahat
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Review 41: Colonizing Kashmir by Hafsa Kanjwal (Stanford UP); reviewer: Shabeeh Rahat
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Review 40: Overdetermined by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Columbia UP); reviewer Sneha Khaund:
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Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Review 40: Overdetermined by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Columbia UP); reviewer Sneha Khaund:
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Review 39: Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde (Penguin Random House). Reviewer: Krishan Kumar:
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Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
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August 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Review 39: Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde (Penguin Random House). Reviewer: Krishan Kumar:
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Review 38: Salman Rushdie in Context (Ed. Florian Stadtler, Cambridge UP. Reviewer Moumin Quazi:
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Salman Rushdie in Context
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August 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Review 38: Salman Rushdie in Context (Ed. Florian Stadtler, Cambridge UP. Reviewer Moumin Quazi:
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Review 37: Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay):
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by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay):
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Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Review 37: Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay):
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by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay):
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@worldlittoday.bsky.social and Ananke will be hosting a conversation event on the special issue of WLT on "Delhi in the Anthropocene" guest edited by me at 9.00 AM on June 30. Registration link for the event in the publicity doc: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-an...
Ananke and WLT to Host “Delhi in the Anthropocene” Conversation on June 30, by The Editors of WLT
On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Today will co-host a special Zoom conversation event to showcase WLT’s latest city issue, “Delhi in the Anthropocene,” guest-edited by Amit R. Baishya.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@worldlittoday.bsky.social and Ananke will be hosting a conversation event on the special issue of WLT on "Delhi in the Anthropocene" guest edited by me at 9.00 AM on June 30. Registration link for the event in the publicity doc: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-an...
Review 36: Boats in a Storm by Kalyani Ramnath (Stanford UP). Reviewed by Prapti Kakati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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June 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Review 36: Boats in a Storm by Kalyani Ramnath (Stanford UP). Reviewed by Prapti Kakati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Review 35: Vikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche (Palgrave) by Melanie Heydari. Reviewed by Sneha Roy.
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Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche
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June 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Review 35: Vikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche (Palgrave) by Melanie Heydari. Reviewed by Sneha Roy.
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Review 34: Intelligence Services in South Asia (edited Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ashraf Ali, Routledge) reviewed by Vipanchika Bhagyanagar:
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Intelligence Services in South Asia: Colonial Past and Post-Colonial Realities
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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June 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Review 34: Intelligence Services in South Asia (edited Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ashraf Ali, Routledge) reviewed by Vipanchika Bhagyanagar:
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Review 33: Rated A by Darshana Mini (University of California P)--reviewer Ankita Deb:
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Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire
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June 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Review 33: Rated A by Darshana Mini (University of California P)--reviewer Ankita Deb:
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Review 32: Women's Transborder Cinema (by Esha Niyogi De) reviwed by Salmaan Rafique:
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Women’s Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
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May 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Review 32: Women's Transborder Cinema (by Esha Niyogi De) reviwed by Salmaan Rafique:
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I review Tithi Bhattacharya's Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke UP) for H-Net: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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May 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I review Tithi Bhattacharya's Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke UP) for H-Net: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Review 31: The Promise of Piety by Arsalan Khan (Cornell UP) reviewed by Taha Firdous Shah:
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The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
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May 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Review 31: The Promise of Piety by Arsalan Khan (Cornell UP) reviewed by Taha Firdous Shah:
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Review 30: Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua (Duke UP) reviewed by Bikash Bhattacharya:
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Plantation Worlds
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May 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Review 30: Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua (Duke UP) reviewed by Bikash Bhattacharya:
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Review 29: Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography (Manchester UP) by Hans-Georg Erney:
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography
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May 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Review 29: Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography (Manchester UP) by Hans-Georg Erney:
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Review 28: The New Screen Ecology in India by Smith Mehta (Bloomsbury). Reviewer: Anmol Dutta:
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The New Screen Ecology in India
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May 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Review 28: The New Screen Ecology in India by Smith Mehta (Bloomsbury). Reviewer: Anmol Dutta:
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Reposted by Amit Baishya
“Such encounters with migrants, plants, macaques, dust storms, human-plant assemblages, and angels in Delhi can lead conventional conversations about Indian English literature astray, composting and remaking it anew.” – Amit R. Baishya
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April 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Such encounters with migrants, plants, macaques, dust storms, human-plant assemblages, and angels in Delhi can lead conventional conversations about Indian English literature astray, composting and remaking it anew.” – Amit R. Baishya
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Reposted by Amit Baishya
The May issue is out, with a cover feature on Delhi + Laila Lalami, Marie Lundquist, Katie Goh, visits to Tashkent & Xalapa, reading trends in Iran, 30 book reviews, and more. Check out the contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may.
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The May issue is out, with a cover feature on Delhi + Laila Lalami, Marie Lundquist, Katie Goh, visits to Tashkent & Xalapa, reading trends in Iran, 30 book reviews, and more. Check out the contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may.
Reposted by Amit Baishya
“Given the multispecies theme of this issue’s Delhi cover feature, I got to wondering: How often do plants and animals appear in WLT?”
Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue.
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Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue.
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April 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Given the multispecies theme of this issue’s Delhi cover feature, I got to wondering: How often do plants and animals appear in WLT?”
Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/edi...
Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/edi...
An edited special issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social on Delhi in the Anthropocene has been published in print and online. The issue has works by Vandana Singh, Siddhartha Deb, Manjula Padmanabhan, Sumana Roy, Nitoo Das, Prateek Vats and Vishwajyoti Ghosh: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/int...
Introduction, by Amit R. Baishya
Guest editor Amit R. Baishya introduces this special section on Delhi | In the Anthroposcene
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April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An edited special issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social on Delhi in the Anthropocene has been published in print and online. The issue has works by Vandana Singh, Siddhartha Deb, Manjula Padmanabhan, Sumana Roy, Nitoo Das, Prateek Vats and Vishwajyoti Ghosh: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/int...
Review 27: Mumbai on Two Wheels (Stanford UP) by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. Reviewer: Abhisruti Sarma:
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Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
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April 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Review 27: Mumbai on Two Wheels (Stanford UP) by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. Reviewer: Abhisruti Sarma:
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