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Identitti
Sanyal, Mithu
Price, Alta L.
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ISBN10: 1662601298
ISBN13: 9781662601293
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Jul 26 2022
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.42 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781662601293
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Jul 26 2022
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.42 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
A searing satire, one similar to those of Percival Everett or Paul Beatty.... Sanyal has created an exhaustively researched, entertaining, and timely novel about the ways social media and scandals dictate so much of the discourse about identity politics. --Starred review, Booklist Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisor--superstar postcolonial and race studies South-Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita's praise of her professor during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks--and before she learns the truth--calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media, blogs, and among her closest friends, Nivedita's assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor. In her thought-provoking, genre-bending debut, Mithu Sanyal solicited the contributions and commentary of public intellectuals as if Saraswati were a real person. A darkly comedic tour de force, Identitti showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and the power of claiming your own voice.
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