Author: globalanglophoneeelamtamillit

• Postmemory in Chandran’s Song of the Sun God

  “Sometimes Nala imagined that all of their family stories were filed away in that carefully ordered mind of Smrithi’s. She was their family’s memory. That thought comforted her–after she died,…

• Dare I Speak for the Nation?

  In a scholarly interview, V.V. Ganeshanthan discusses the pressure of representing a nation, particularly when asked to condense its complex history into a concise version. She shares that as an…

• Constructing the Counter-/archive 

  “Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war” (Vuong 31) shares the protagonist of Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We’re…

• Haunting Intrusions & Diasporic Guilt in Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage

  In V.V. Ganeshanthan’s Love Marriage, I saw myself represented for the first time as a second-generation Sri Lankan Tamil woman carrying the weight of the civil war without ever having…