Audacious Raconteurs of Colonial India: A Discussion with Leela Prasad
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Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
South Asia Center presents
Audacious Raconteurs of Colonial India: A Discussion with Leela Prasad
The Audacious Raconteur (Cornell University Press, 2020) engages history, anthropology, literary studies, and religion to argue that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress “audacious raconteurs”: skilled storytellers who fashion narrative spaces that allow themselves to remain sovereign and beyond subjugation. Four Indian narrators of different castes and religious backgrounds who lived in colonial India—an ayah, a lawyer, an archaeologist, and a librarian—show that the audacious raconteur is a necessary ethical and artistic figure in human experience.
Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, will talk with Dr. Prasad about her book and its contributions.
Leela Prasad
Professor, Religious Studies
Duke University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion.
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