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From Impasse to Operative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2019

Aarthi Vadde
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Abstract

Aarthi Vadde is an associate professor of English at Duke University. She is author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016, which was the winner of the 2018 Harry Levin Prize awarded by the ACLA. She is at work on a second monograph tentatively titled The Amateur Spirit: Contemporary Literature in the Sharing Economy and is co-editing a collection entitled The Critic as Amateur.

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Book Forum on Aarthi Vadde’s Chimeras of Form
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 133 - 139
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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References

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2 Aarthi Vadde, “Scalability,” Modernism/Modernity (PrintPlus, January 2, 2018). Available online at: https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0035; Nicole Rizzuto, “Global Modernism at Sea: Maritime Labor and Surface Reading in Richard Hughes’s In Hazard,” Modernism/Modernity (PrintPlus, January 2, 2018). Available online at: https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0040.

3 I’m thinking here of Cleary, Joe, Esty, Jed, and Lye, Colleen, eds., “Peripheral Realisms,” special issue of MLQ 73.3(2012)Google Scholar .

4 Vadde, Aarthi, “Guidance in Perplexity: Recasting Postcolonial Politics in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello ,” Ariel 41.3–4 (2011): 231–247 Google Scholar .

5 See, for example, McClintock, Anne, “The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Post-colonialism,’” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 84–98 CrossRefGoogle Scholar ; Shohat, Ella, “Notes on the ‘Postcolonial,’” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 99–113 CrossRefGoogle Scholar ; Dirlik, Arif, “The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism,” Critical Inquiry 20 (1994): 328–356 CrossRefGoogle Scholar ; Mukherjee, Meenakshi and Trivedi, Harish, eds., Interrogating Post-colonialism (Shimla, India: India Institute of Advanced Study, 1996)Google Scholar .

6 Berlant, Lauren, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar ; Cvetkovich, Ann, “Public Feelings,” South Atlantic Quarterly 106.3 (2007): 459–468 CrossRefGoogle Scholar . Feel Tank Chicago is one example of an alternative kind of political organization, a play on the think tank that places feeling and aesthetic response at the center of political critique and activism.

7 See Vadde, Aarthi, “Amateur Creativity: Contemporary Literature and the Digital Publishing Scene,” New Literary History 48.1 (2017): 27–51 CrossRefGoogle Scholar . Also, Micir, Melanie and Vadde, Aarthi, “Obliterature: Toward an Amateur Criticism,” Modernism/Modernity 25.3 (2018): 517–549 CrossRefGoogle Scholar .

8 Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer,” trans. John Heckman, New Left Review 62 (1970): 2.

9 Ibid., 3.

10 Ibid., 4.