Their words might have been different but both Ambedkar and Phule talked of the slavery of women and Shudras and Ati-shudras, their liberation and their unity. The concept of ‘Bahujan Literature’ was born to highlight the need to explore the socio-cultural foundation of the liberation and unity of Bahujans.

there is a broad unanimity among Hin…[Read more]

इस संपादकीय लेख में कहा गया है कि जोतिबा फुले और आम्बेडकर दोनों ने मुख्य रूप से अलग-अलग शब्दावली में शूदों-अतिशूद्रों तथा स्त्री की गुलामी और इससे मुक्ति के लिए इनकी एकता की बात की है। हिंदी में ‘बहुजन साहित्य’ का जन्म प्रकारांतर से इसी विचार के सांस्कृतिक-सामाजिक आधार की खोज की जरूरत पर बल देने के लिए हुआ है।
मध्यवर्ती जातियों और दलित जाति…[Read more]

This is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I’m sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the “uncanny body politic,” the uncanny valley, “dystopian poetics,” what it means…[Read more]

Analizamos el contexto e ideología de la película de ciencia ficción ‘El Origen del Planeta de los Simios’ (2011), con especial atención sobre el juego intertextual de precuelas y secuelas, y sobre las inquietudes ideológicas manifiestas en lo relativo a las relaciones raciales y al evolucionismo.…[Read more]

Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]