The Gandhi Memorial Center Presents: ATLANTIC GANDHI The Mahatma Overseas Author Talk with Dr. Nalini Natarajan Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:00pm – 4:00pm RSVP by 6-12-14 [email protected] or 301-320-6871 Using the frames of diaspora theory, post-colonial discourse theory and the recent Atlantic turn in studies of resistance, this book brings into relief Gandhis experience as a traveler moving from a classic colony, India, to the plantation and mining society of South Africa. The author forwards the argument that this move between different modes of production brought Gandhi into contact with indentured laborers, with whom he shared exilic and diasporic consciousness, and whose difficult yet resilient lives inspired his philosophy. It reads Gandhis nationalistic (that is, anti-colonial) sentiments as born in diasporic exile, where he formed his perspective as a provincial subject in a multiracial plantation. Dr. Nalini Natarajan is a Professor at the English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico in the US, where she has been teaching since 1987. She also taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1978–80) and Miranda House, Delhi (1984–86), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (1986–87). She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Aberdeen, UK in 1984. She has written a book titled Woman and Indian Modernity: Readings of Colonial and Postcolonial Novels in 2002, and edited Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of India in 1996, which received the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. She recently completed The Resonating Island, published by Terranova Press, which includes a series of intercultural essays on the Caribbean and South Asia. Dr. Natarajan combines her interest in India and its many regions, local languages and cultures, British domestic and imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feminist theory, as well as Caribbean and Latin American issues. Gandhi Memorial Center, 4748 Western Ave, Bethesda, MD 20816 gandhimemorialcenter.org
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