MESAAS FACULTY

PUBLICATIONS

Haymarket Books presents On Edward Said by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Oct 27, 2020 | Publications |

An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries’ leading public intellectuals. Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best... Read more

Bombay Hustle by Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University Press

by mesaas | Sep 28, 2020 | Publications |

From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents... Read more

University of Michigan Press presents Kafka’s Zoopoetics by Naama Harel

by mesaas | May 27, 2020 | Publications |

Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman... Read more

Stanford University Press presents Persianate Selves by Mana Kia

by mesaas | Apr 24, 2020 | Publications |

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and... Read more

Zed Books presents The Emperor is Naked by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Apr 24, 2020 | Publications |

  The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes–Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during World War I, it was a great success and... Read more

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist The Many Worlds of R.B. More edited by Anupama Rao

by mesaas | Feb 18, 2020 | Publications |

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist The Many Worlds of R.B. More Satyendra More Edited by Anupama Rao Translated by Wandana Sonalkar R.B. More (1903–1972) was a leader in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s movement, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).... Read more