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Laura Brueck

Laura Brueck

Laura Brueck is a professor of South Asian and comparative literature at Northwestern University.

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Caste Is Having a Cultural and Political Moment Globally. It Has Not Always Been So

Caste Is Having a Cultural and Political Moment Globally. It Has Not Always Been So

While caste has recently infiltrated American discourse and become more mainstream in Indian media, Dalit writers and activists have been flooding the Indian literary markets with memoirs, short fiction and poetry since the late 1960s.

Laura Brueck
The Local and the Global in Indian Crime Novels

The Local and the Global in Indian Crime Novels

With Indian crime dramas becoming a popular global export, it is important to turn to Hindi pulp fiction, often dismissed as backward and unmodern while English-language novels command the right to be defined as cosmopolitan.

Laura Brueck