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Dr Anna Clarke

Visiting Fellow
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Dr Anna Clarke

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Qualifications

  • BA Hons The Open University,

  • MA The University of Essex,

  • PhD The University of Essex,

Research and professional activities

Conferences and presentations

“Hoist with his own petard”: The Indian English Novel

The Novel and Its Borders, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 7/2008

“Cultural Identities in the Context of Migration – Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird”

10th International Cultural Studies Symposium: When “Away” Becomes “Home” -Cultural Consequences of Migration, Izmir, Turkey, 5/2005

“Hybridity and Syncretism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”

New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition, Kloster Seeon, Germany, 7/2004

“Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”

Inter-University Post-Colonial Studies Seminar, London, United Kingdom, 2/2003

Publications

Journal articles (3)

Clarke, A., “Lost in Translation”? - Identity, Migration and (Trans)Nationalism in Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird. Texture: A Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 1 (1)

Clarke, A., (2010). Spectral Selves and Fragmented Freedoms in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column. The Journal of Contemporary Literature. 1 (2), 215-220

Clarke, A., (2003). Review of Tabish Khair's Babu Fictions. Wasafiri, 71-72

Book chapters (4)

Clarke, A., (2013). Seeking “Sights of Destinations”: Novelistic Discourse, Identity and Politics in Tabish Khair’s The Bus Stopped. In: Tabish Khair: Fiction, Poetry and Criticism. Editors: Dwivedi, O., . Roman Books

Clarke, A., (2011). ‘Balachandra Rajan’s The Dark Dancer’. In: Writers of Indian Diaspora. Editors: Dwivedi, AN., . Pencraft International

Clarke, A., (2006). Language, Hybridity and Dialogism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. In: Routledge Guides to Twentieth Century Literature: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Editors: Tickell, A., . Routledge

Clarke, A., (2006). Hybridity and Syncretism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. In: New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition. Editors: Heidemann, F. and de Toro, A., . Hildesheim

Conferences (1)

Clarke, A., (2007). Cultural Identities in the Context of Migration - Anita Desai's Bye-Bye Blackbird

Media (1)

Clarke, A., Linguistic Aspects, Contexts and Pedagogy of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things in A233 Telling Stories: The Novel and Beyond, The Open University, forthcoming Oct 2019. Audio

Contact

amclar@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus