Asie du Sud

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor and Director, Program on Justice and Peace

Georgetown University

schwarzh@georgetown.edu

Department of English, Box 1131
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057 USA

phone: 202-687-7647
fax: 202-687-5445

http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/pjp/dnt-rag

India

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Asian Cultural Studies, Bengal,
literature, historiography, Criminal Tribes, Film.

Books:

Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), 199 pp.

A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, eds. Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray
(Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2000; rpt. 2004), 578 pp.

Contributions to Bengal Studies: An Interdisciplinary and International
Approach, eds. Enayetur Rahim and Henry Schwarz (Dhaka: Pustaka, 1998),
592 pp.

Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies,
eds. Henry Schwarz and Richard Dienst (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), 341
pp.

Video:

"Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer." 30 minute video documentary
detailing the life and writings of Indian writer and activist Mahasweta
Devi. Directed by Shashwati Talukdar, Produced by Nandini Sikand,
Executive Producer Henry Schwarz.

Articles:

"From Text to Work: Postcolonial Textuality," in Reimagining Textuality,
ed. Beth Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press,
2002), 211-224.

"Postcolonial Performance: Texts and Contexts of Mahasweta Devi," SHARP:
Sussex History of Art Research Publication, 2.0 (April 2002), 20 pp.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/sharp/issues/0002/pHTML/pPostcolonialPerformance01.shtml

"The Bhasha Research and Publication Center," Cultural Survival Quarterly,
Fall 2001, 53-54.

"Reimagining the Homeland in South Asian America," in In Diaspora:
Theories, Histories, Texts, ed. Makarand Paranjape (New Delhi: Indialog
Publications, 2001) 171-178.

"Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India," Modern
Language Quarterly 61, 4 (December 2000), 563-586.

"The Denotified and Nomadic Tribal Rights Action Group," and "Will India
Be Moved?" Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 6, 2 (Fall
1999), 126-138.

"The Turning Point of Crime: Tribal Identity and Postcolonial
Subversions," Contributions to Bengal Studies, 463-472.

"Laissez-faire Linguistics: Grammar and the Codes of Empire," Critical
Inquiry 23 (Spring 1997), 509-535.

"Sexing the Pundits: Gender, Romance and Realism in the Cultural Politics
of Colonial Bengal," Reading the Shape of the World, 224-258.

Cultural Studies ; Bengal ; literature ; historiography ; criminal tribes ; film ; ...