<p>Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies; Caribbean Studies; Feminism; Marxism</p>
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Email Address:
spuri@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Puri
Publications:
2013 “Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement.” Small Axe 41: 58-73; special issue on “What is Caribbean Studies?”
2011 “Memory-Work, Field-Work: Reading Merle Collins and the Poetics of Place.” Routledge Companion to Caribbean Literature. Eds. Alison Donnell and Michael Bucknor. Routledge.
2010 “Introduction: Legacies Left,” Legacies Left: Radical Politics in the Caribbean Special Issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 12.1: 1-10.
Qualifications:
PhD, Cornell University, 1994
Department:
English
Region:
South Asia
Office:
609A Cathedral of Learning
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Office phone number:
412-624-2824
Rank:
Associate Professor
Biography:
<p>Shalini Puri works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies of the global south with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Her award-winning book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity explores the relations amongst nationalisms, feminisms, and assesses various theories and histories of cultural hybridity. She continues to be interested in researching the cultural practices, conflicts, and solidarities which have arisen out of the overlapping African and Asian diasporas set in motion by slavery and indentureship. She is completing a book entitled The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory, which studies the conflicting cultural memories of the Grenada Revolution as they surface in the arts, everyday life, landscape, and the diaspora. It explores the legacies of the Grenada Revolution for egalitarian politics in the region. She is co-editor (with Kofi Campbell) of the Palgrave Macmillan series New Caribbean Studies.</p>
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