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The Music of Neoliberalism: âOnly Youâ in Roger Kingâs A Girl from Zanzibar
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Marcella DâSouza arrives in England from Zanzibar with a vision. The Goan-Arab protagonist of Roger Kingâs A Girl from Zanzibar dreams of herself upstairs in âa fashionable London house..
Running Naked and Unmasked in Goa: Pleasure in the Pandemic
In November 2020, Indian celebrity Milind Soman posted a picture of himself on social media, which showed him running naked on a beach. He was charged with obscenity. This article considers the time and place of Somanâs act over the alleged impropriety. The photograph was taken on a beach in Goa, the tropical setting serving as a pleasure periphery to India which annexed the region in 1961. Accordingly, a longer history of states of undress in Indian advertising, filmmaking, and tourism are considered here to apprehend how Goa has been posited in the Indian imagination as a destination for wanton self-gratification while local realities are undermined. The article thus interrogates what it means for Goa, whose economy is overly dependent on tourism, to serve as a vacation spot during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when, in 2020, it had among the highest number of virus-related deaths in the country (Dias, 2020, par. 4). Using the metaphor of the celebrity who has no qualms about running naked and unmasked in Goa, this article enquires into what such events leave unrevealed in the economic requirement that some locales function as holiday destinations, even in the midst of a pandemic
I am a âPure Goanâ but there is No Such Thing: An Interview with Peter Nazareth
Conducted between February and April, 2017, this e-conversation with writer, literary critic, and professor Peter Nazareth engages him in topics of the Goan diaspora, Goan literature, as well as his own writing and criticism. As a writer of novels, radio plays, and short stories, and as a critic of multiple literatures, Nazareth is asked to reflect upon historical, personal, and other influences on his work, as well as the reception of it. In his responses, Nazareth draws from familial and personal history as a writer whose lived connections include East Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the West. Additionally, his perspective covers such moments of import as the end of colonialism in East Africa and the Asian expulsion from Idi Aminâs Uganda. He is also asked to comment upon the trajectory of twentieth and twenty-first century Goan literature as an early anthologist of writing by those of Goan origins in various parts of the world. In so doing, Nazareth recalls how he came to the work of writers Leslie de Noronha and Violet Dias Lannoy, the latter an author whose novel was published posthumously. Further, the gamut of issues covered include inter-communal socialities and antagonisms, literature and identity diversity, and the fraught terrain of claims to authenticity
Everyday: The Exquisite Intricate
Suppose I begin with the facts? A boy leaves his childhood home
(Un)Seeing Goaâs Bom Jesus in Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkarâs This is Not the Basilica!
This article examines the interrogation of visual history associated with Goan church architectural legacies offered by Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkarâs installation series, This is Not the Basilica! (2021). The artistâs subject is the 16th-century Basilica of Bom Jesus, which was built in locally domesticated Baroque style during Goaâs Portuguese colonial era and which houses the remains of the Spanish saint, Francis Xavier. Kandolkarâs work makes viewers intimate with the Basilicaâs history, I contend, so as to posit the need for conservation efforts that will save the deteriorating church while also revealing its unseen aesthetic past as a symbol of still-unfolding Goan identity
Book Review: Melo e Castro, Paul, editor. Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories Translated from Portuguese.2 vols. Goa 1566 and Golden Heart Emporium, 2016.
In translating and compiling the 45 stories in this double volume, editor Paul Melo e Castro showcases the legacy of the Portuguese short story from erstwhile Goa Portuguesa. Between 1510 and 1961, Goa was the capital of Luso-Asia and the Estado da Ăndia Portuguesa. For Melo e Castro, the anthology functions as the autopsy of a dead literature, focused as it is on a corpus that spans the period between 1864 and 1987 (8)
Water Adsorption of Particleboard and Flakeboard
The amount of water adsorption (WA) determines the dimensional stability of particleboard and flakeboard. Regression models showed that WA is a function of relative humidity, resin type, and board specific gravity, as well as the thickness and slenderness ratio of the wood furnish. Those factors explained 95% of all variation in WA
Decoloniality and Tropicality: Part Two
The papers collected together in this special issue on the theme âdecoloniality and tropicalityâ discuss and demonstrate how we can move towards disentangling ourselves from persistent colonial epistemologies and ontologies. Engaging theories of decoloniality and postcolonialism with tropicality, the articles explore the material poetics of philosophical reverie; the \u27tropical natureculture\u27 imaginaries of sex tourism, ecotourism, and militourism; deep readings of an anthropophagic movement, ecocritical literature, and the ecoGothic; the spaces of a tropical flâneuseand diasporic vernacular architecture; and in the decoloniality of education, a historical analysis of colonial female education and a film analysis for contemporary educational praxis
The Uninvited Host: Goa and the Parties not Meant for its People
Despite its history as a favored destination for hippies from the West in the 1960s and 1970s, present-day party tourism in Goa largely attracts Indian travelers. This is a product of the post-1990s liberalization of the Indian economy, coupled with the exoticization of Goa, which has rendered it a pleasure periphery to the subcontinent. Such difference, and attraction, occurs because, unlike most of the rest of the India that annexed Goa, the region was a Portuguese colony until 1961. Goaâs Lusitanization suggests a more liberal milieu, social gatherings with music and dancing being commonplace culturally, for example. While tourism has become an economic mainstay in Goa, the party economy pays little heed to Goans and their culture, treating the land as a place where fun is paramount and local concerns, including environmental ones, are sidelined
Decolonizing the Tropics: Part One
This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the tropics
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