Background
Feroza Jussawalla was born on January 14, 1953, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is the daughter of Framji and Meher (Dalai) Jussawalla.
2018
Feroza Jussawalla at Tosca on October 28, 2018.
Koti Main Road, Esamiya Bazaar, Kachiguda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500095, India
Osmania University College for Women where Feroza Jussawalla received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Ichapur Road, Opp ONGC Next to Toyota, Bhatpore, Limla, Gujarat 394510, India
Feroza Jussawalla at AURO University.
Feroza Jussawalla with Denise Elia Chávez at the ceremony of Lifetime Achievement Award at the University of New Mexico.
Feroza Jussawalla with Andrew Harrison, Eva Lipton-Ormond, Sharon Warner, and Julianne Newmark.
Feroza Jussawalla with Hector Armienta.
Feroza Jussawalla with her student.
Feroza Jussawalla with Paula Krebs.
Feroza Jussawalla with her students.
Feroza Jussawalla with ambassador Vijaya Thakur Singh.
8418 Zuni Rd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, United States
Feroza Jussawalla at Lakshmi puja at the Hindu Temple Society of New Mexico.
Feroza Jussawalla with her old friend.
(Family Quarrels: Towards a Critisicm of Indian Writing in...)
Family Quarrels: Towards a Critisicm of Indian Writing in English is the first critical work that traces the history of the criticism of Indian writing in English in order to demonstrate the development of this literature as, a response to its criticism, and an imitation of western literary trends. In this effort, Family Quarrels, throws an entirely new light on the development of Indian Literature in English. The critical push towards finding a style that was at once both Indian and fashionably au courant compelled Indian writers to innovate stylistically. Both India's political background and sociolinguistic theories such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis led to such a criticism. Evaluations of previous critical perspectives show where they fail and point to the need for a new interpretive community. A «proper» criticism of Indian literature in English should take into consideration the language contact situation and the writers' context of situation.
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Quarrels-Criticism-American-University/dp/0820401633/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasen...)
This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers. These are joined by three Chicano writers from the U.S. In this fascinating collection of fourteen interviews (eleven previously unpublished) the interviewers speak with leading writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean islands, as well as with three Chicano writers. Largely considered non-canonical, they address questions about the effects of colonialism, their place in English-language literature, the politics of language in non-Western societies, and the value of their work in helping those with Western perspectives to understand their cultures.
https://www.amazon.com/Interviews-Writers-Post-Colonial-Feroza-Jussawalla/dp/087805572X
1992
(Conversations with V. S. Naipaul brings together intervie...)
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity, but one who dreads intimacy and cherishes a solitary detachment. This collection shows the changing faces of this world-class author. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and the poet Eric Roach, Naipaul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a maturing Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life.
https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-V-S-Naipaul-Literary/dp/0878059466/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Chiffon Saris: Poems is a collection of poems that captur...)
Chiffon Saris: Poems is a collection of poems that capture the multiplicity of being tied to Indian roots while living as an American in the borders of where Mexico and the United States intersect.
https://www.amazon.com/Chiffon-Saris-Poems-Feroza-Jussawalla/dp/8181571185/?tag=2022091-20
2003
Feroza Jussawalla was born on January 14, 1953, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is the daughter of Framji and Meher (Dalai) Jussawalla.
Feroza Jussawalla studied at Osmania University College for Women, Telangana, India, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1973. In 1975 she received a Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Utah and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1983.
After receiving a bachelor's degree, Feroza Jussawalla was a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Utah until 1979. Then from 1980 till 1983, she was a lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 1983 Jussawalla became an assistant professor of English, being promoted to an associate professor in 1990 and to a professor of English in 1998. Since 2001 she has been working as a professor of English at the University of New Mexico.
She specializes in World Literatures in English, Colonial and Postcolonial literature, discourses in English from Kipling to the present, and Muslim Women’s Writing in English with particular reference to current refugee writing. Her genre specializations include Novel and bildungsroman across British, Irish and American fiction, and Modernist writing in English, particularly D.H. Lawrence in context. She additionally specializes in the writings of D.H. Lawrence, Rushdie, and V.S. Naipaul.
Feroza is the author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985) and the poetry collection Chiffon Saris (2003). Jussawalla co-edited Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (1992) with Reed Way Dasenbrock and Emerging South Asian Women Writers with Deborah Weagel. Feroza is also the editor of Conversations with V. S. Naipaul (1998). Her most recent publications include Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared in Das and Morrow, Unveiling Desire; Bharati Mukherjee in Oxford Bibliographies; and Transnational, Postcolonial, D.H. Lawrence in D.H. Lawrence: New Critical Perspectives.
(Family Quarrels: Towards a Critisicm of Indian Writing in...)
1985(Chiffon Saris: Poems is a collection of poems that captur...)
2003(This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasen...)
1992(Conversations with V. S. Naipaul brings together intervie...)
1997Feroza Jussawalla's primary motivation in writing is to bridge the gap between the culture from which she came and the culture she now lives in. She is moving gradually from scholarly writing to creative writing because she feels that it is through the creative dramatization of cross-cultural events that one can portray the contemporary angst of our global, trans-cultural, diasporic condition. This is why she chose to do the book on Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. She has learned a great deal by interviewing writers, as in her book Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World, and by studying the manuscripts of Paul Scott.
Feroza Jussawalla was a member of the board of directors of the Border Book Festival. She is a member of the Modem Language Association of America.
Feroza Jussawalla married Reed Way Dasenbrock on July 26, 1982. The marriage produced one child.