Bassam Sidiki Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Neil Lazarus’s The Postcolonial Unconscious explains to me so well why and how, when I looked to postcolonial studies expecting to find anti-imperial, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistances, I found none of them.

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Rereading Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance for my MLA paper… a bleaker contemporary novel in English has probably never been written. Also noticing the heavy-handed foreshadowing on second reading.

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Surprising gem from my research for a paper on Victorian Sindh for NAVSA ‘23: Lt-Colonel Walter Scott, an engineer who with Richard Burton surveyed the Indus prior to and after Sindh’s annexation by the British, was SIR Walter Scott’s nephew. ⬇️ and here’s a Sindhi in Scotland. https://t.co/ECeYuHVN2F

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So glad someone has written about this! From James Kyung-Jin Lee’s Pedagogies of Woundedness (Temple UP 2022) https://t.co/mjYPHekJb7

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@drreznicek Potiki by Patricia Grace and Animal’s People by Indra Sinha

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Orhan Pamuk’s Nights of Plague, which is never-ending, could be the novel version of this book! Bookmarking https://t.co/rLGcYePAZQ

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@autytwink Recommend reading Hayden White’s Metahistory

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@travisclau It’s not my “favorite” but it is interesting to think with: the novel Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker. I have an article on it too.

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@LFSchleusener @orsidd @LailaLalami Seconding Lalami here! It’s a fantastic novel. There’s also David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, but again, a very long work.

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I have now been called “fucking hard-headed” by a colleague, in addition to “unprofessional and unlikable” by my peers when I was in grad school. Well-behaved women seldom make history I guess.