Subramanian Shankar: 2 books
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of...
Ghost in the Tamarind
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large?
Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the...