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"The Empire Writes Back" and the Politics of Comic Representation: Reading Anurag Mathur's The Inscrutable Americans within a Framework of Colonial Discourse

Panel: 
Post-Colonial Literature I
Abstract: 

This paper analyzes the use of Manichean binaries of self-other, civilized-native, us-them with a focus to Anurag Mathur’s The Inscrutable Americans. Although the novel’s protagonist, Gopal attempts to “write back” by subverting the ‘normative’ West, he fails in the end due to his positionality.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Kumar Sankar
Last Name: 
Bhattacharya
Institution: 
Drew University