Amitava Kumar est un auteur célébré dont les œuvres explorent les thèmes complexes de l'identité, de l'exil et de la collision culturelle. Sa prose, souvent tissée de réflexions personnelles et de critiques sociales, examine les tensions entre le foyer et l'étranger, la tradition et la modernité. Le style de Kumar est à la fois incisif et poétique, capturant les nuances de l'expérience humaine avec une intelligence vive et de l'empathie. Son écriture invite les lecteurs à contempler les questions profondes qui façonnent notre monde interconnecté.
A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book combines Amitava Kumar's practical writing advice with interviews with prominent writers, offering guidance and inspiration for academic writers at all levels.
Drawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record - in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and - if we care to notice - visions of blazing beauty. From one of the acclaimed and accomplished authors of our time, this writer's journal is a panoramic portrait of the experience, both individual and collective, of the pandemic.
World Bank literature is more than a concept -- it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities. Made more relevant than ever by momentous antiglobalization demonstrations in Seattle and Genoa, World Bank Literature brings together essays by a distinguished group of economists, cultural and literary critics, social scientists, and public policy analysts to ask how to understand the influence of the World Bank/IMF on global economic power relations and cultural production. The authors attack this question in myriad ways, examining World Bank/IMF documents as literature; their impact on developing nations; the relationship between literature and globalization; the connection between the academy and the global economy; and the emergence of coalitions confronting the new power. World Bank Literature shows, above all, the multifarious and sometimes nefarious ways that abstract academic debates play themselves out concretely in social policy and cultural mores that reinforce traditional power structures.
A 'non-fiction novel' about lies and violence, ranging across Trump and Modi, the narrator's childhood experience of communal violence in India, and his wife's work as a psychologist.
The narrative explores Amitava Kumar's journey from Patna, India, to the United States, highlighting the struggle of balancing personal identity with cultural expectations. Despite his aspirations of becoming a global citizen, he confronts the realities of being an immigrant, facing stereotypes and assumptions tied to his heritage. This reflection on identity, belonging, and the impact of one's past offers a poignant commentary on the immigrant experience and the complexities of cultural integration.
A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant's place in the nation's fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he's in a constant state of exile
Amitava Kumar's collection of twenty-six essays blends memoir, reportage, and criticism, showcasing his keen observations of the world. Through encounters with notable writers like Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, as well as a Bollywood actor's struggles, he explores themes of immigration and globalization. The title essay recounts a chilling visit to a member of an ultra-right Hindu group who placed him on a hit-list. Throughout, Kumar illustrates the complexities of being a writer in today's changing landscape.
An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid.
