In recent decades, fictional and quasi-fictional late 18th century works about real or imagined visits to the Indian subcontinent, and even interesting travel narratives written by relatively little known British women authors about India, have attracted considerable critical interest.
Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
‘Immediately, I am struck by her sour wordplay, the gleeful piss-taking, a cagey indirection. An exuberant voice absent in our seminar vibrates from the page.’
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The subjects of education, health, gender, economic cooperation, democracy, the environment and more were discussed at the Southasia Peace Action Network's first-anniversary event.