Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters
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Dr. Pavan Malreddy / Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Department of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32352
Email: c.argast@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32021
Email: salerno-petersen@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6-8 PM
Room IG 254 & on Zoom
This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Much contemporary fiction from Indian Ocean Africa and South Asia turns simultaneously to the past and across the ocean generating alternative cartographies interlinking the Indian Ocean world. This means the past is not simply a background against which their narratives unfold—their historical setting—but the past itself functions as an intertext through which an Indian Ocean world gets reimagined.
This talk will examine the rhetoric of loss and recovery in Indian Ocean discourse through an intertextual reading of Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s novel Indian Tango (2005), as a transnational queer rewriting of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic adaptation (1984) of Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) (1916).
Kritish Rajbhandari is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, USA, where he teaches courses in postcolonial, South Asian, and African literatures. He is the author of The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction published by Cambridge University Press. His articles have been published in journals including Comparative Literature, South Asia, and Research in African Literatures. He is also a translator and has translated poetry from his native language Nepalbhasa to English.