Postcolonial Biology

Deepika Bahri is associate professor of English and core faculty member in comparative literature at Emory University. She is author of Native Intelligence (Minnesota, 2003) and coeditor of Between the Lines and The Realms of Rhetoric.

• ContentsPrologue: Oh! Calcutta!Introduction: Plasticity, Hybridity, and Postcolonial Biology1. “No Escape from Form”: Saleem’s Spittoon, Padma’s Musculature, and Neoliberal Hybridity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children2. Shibboleth: Hybridity, Diaspora, and Passing in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist3. Conan Doyle Plays Sherlock: The Unofficial Englishmen in Julian Barnes’s Arthur & GeorgeEpilogue: The Good LifeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"For over a decade now I have turned to Deepika Bahri's work in the confident expectation that it will surprise, instruct, and persuade. Postcolonial Biology does just that. It is interdisciplinary in the most robust sense as Bahri invites us to think 'postcolonial biology' through the lenses provided by thinkers and by modes of enquiry that are not often aggregated together. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read, it promises to unsettle the terrain of postcolonial theory and literary criticism."-Parama Roy, University of California, Davis"Bahri intends this book to bring biology-particularly the corporeal-into postcolonial discourse. She argues that to do so does not reinforce the body-mind divide; rather, it extends the notion of hybridity beyond knowledge systems to include bodily aesthetics and comportment."-CHOICE