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Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out.
Olivia Craighead, The New York Times
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisorsuperstar postcolonial and race studies South-Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Niveditas praise of her professor during a radio interview just hours before the news breaksand before she learns the truthcalls into question her own reputation as a young activist.
Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media, blogs, and among her closest friends, Niveditas assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor.
In her thought-provoking, genre-bending debut, Mithu Sanyal solicited the contributions and commentary of public intellectuals as if Saraswati were a real person. A darkly comedic tour de force, Identitti showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and the power of claiming your own voice.
Author: Mithu Sanyal
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.3lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.91w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9781662601293
Language: English
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