Background
Shankar, Subramanian was born on July 28, 1962 in Salem, Tamilnadu, India. Arrived in United States of America, 1987. Son of K.S. and K.S. (Champakam) Subramanian.
(Examines travel narratives as a genre. In Textual Traffic...)
Examines travel narratives as a genre. In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre. Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives--African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic--drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Shankar, Subramanian was born on July 28, 1962 in Salem, Tamilnadu, India. Arrived in United States of America, 1987. Son of K.S. and K.S. (Champakam) Subramanian.
Bachelor, University of Madras, Chennai, India, 1984. Master of Arts, University of Madras, Chennai, India, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1993.
Assistant professor Rutgers University, Newark, 1993—2001, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, since 2002.
(THis is a brilliantly humorous and provactive novel of po...)
(Examines travel narratives as a genre. In Textual Traffic...)
Married Anannya Bhattacharjee, June 21, 1991. 1 child Ujjayan Subramanian.