About
My research focuses on Anglophone Jewish-Indian contemporary literature, and examines the ways in which the corpus mirrors the history of three miniscule minority communities in India, their disintegration and afterlives. It explores the use of auto/biographical genres, such as the autobiographical novel, the memoir, and family histories in the corpus, as well as the genres’ gendered and postcolonial implications. The intersectional exploration of genre, gender and diasporic genealogy challenges existing Jewish-Indian historiographies, and proposes a new and comprehensive understanding of South-Asian Jewish diasporic literature.
Research Areas
Anglophone Indian literature; Fiction and Auto/biography; South Asian Jews; Literature and gender; Life writing; Memoir; Postcolonial Diasporic criticism.