Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

प्रेमकुमार मणि की यह संपादकीय टिप्पणी पटना से प्रकाशित मासिक पत्रिका ‘जन विकल्प’ की साहित्य वार्षिकी, 2008 में प्रकाशित हुई थी। यह टिप्पणी ‘समय से संवाद’ पुस्तक में भी संकलित है।
जन विकल्प के संपादक प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन थे।

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]

There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]

In the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]

यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा पर केंद्रित है। यह अवधारणा सभी वंचित तबकों के साहित्य में उनकी सामाजिक पृष्ठभूमि के आधार पर साझेपन की तलाश करती है। किंतु, यह सामाजिक पृष्ठभूमि के साथ-साथ लेखक विचारों को भी संज्ञान में लेती है। इस प्रकार, बहुजन साहित्य भारतीय संदर्भ में दलित, आदिवासी, अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग, पसमांदा मुसलमान, धुमंतू जाति…[Read more]

The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]