#DesiBooksReview 4: The Present is But a Mirror Reflection of the Past in Ranbir Sidhu’s Partition Novel
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Ranbir Sidhu's novel, Dark Star.
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Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava completed her Ph.D. in English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Canada. Her research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 Partition. She co-edited the volume, Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media, with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb. Her academic research has also been published in South Asian Review. She has contributed a book chapter in #Metoo and Literary Studies: Reading, Teaching, and Writing About Sexual Culture, and has two upcoming publications including an MLA Pedagogy anthology titled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diaspora Literature, and multiple contributions to a collaborative volume, Gender Violence, The State, and Society: Perspectives from India, Japan, and South Africa. She is also co-editing with her colleagues a volume on Reimagining #MeToo in South Asia and the Diaspora. She is currently converting her dissertation into a book in the coming year. She grew up in India, Malaysia, and Singapore before migrating to the United States in 2001 with her family.
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Ranbir Sidhu's novel, Dark Star.
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Anjali Gera Roy's Memories and Postmemories of The Partition of India.
Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava completed her Ph.D. in English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Canada. Her research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 Partition. She co-edited the volume, Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media, with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb. Her academic research has also been published in South Asian Review. She has contributed a book chapter in #Metoo and Literary Studies: Reading, Teaching, and Writing About Sexual Culture, and has two upcoming publications including an MLA Pedagogy anthology titled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diaspora Literature, and multiple contributions to a collaborative volume, Gender Violence, The State, and Society: Perspectives from India, Japan, and South Africa. She is also co-editing with her colleagues a volume on Reimagining #MeToo in South Asia and the Diaspora. She is currently converting her dissertation into a book in the coming year. She grew up in India, Malaysia, and Singapore before migrating to the United States in 2001 with her family.