S. Shankar

writer

novelist / cultural critic / translator

I write in different genres because the word is supple and powerful, sometimes more powerful than the sword

Cultural Criticism (Books)

Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular (UC Press 2012; Orient BlackSwan India 2012)

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Available at University of California Press
Available at Orient BlackSwan India

Review by Amardeep Singh, Comparative Literature Studies 51.2 (2014)

Review by Gajendran Ayyathurai, South Asian History and Culture 5.1 (2014)

Review by Chelva Kannaganayakam, ARIEL 44.2-3 (April-July 2013)

Review by Nirmal Selvamony, Journal of Contemporary Thought 37 (Summer 2013)

Review by Gaurav Desai, Interventions 15.2 (2013)

Review by Vanamala Viswanatha, Translation Studies 6 (2013)


Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text (SUNY Press 2001)

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Available at SUNY Press.

Review in Modern Fiction Studies 50.2 (2004): 519-22.

Review in minnesota review [sic] 58-60 (Spring 2002-Spring 2003): 303-309.

Review in E3W Review of Books 3 (Spring 2003): 5-8.

Review in Discourse 22.3 (2001), p391-393.

Review in Choice (November 2001): 39-1418.