Deepa Jani

Select Publications

• "Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions,' Fanon, and Bildung of a 'Native Woman,'" in Commonwealth Essays and Studies, special issue, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2022, published by Société d'Etude des Pays du Commonwealth (French Society for Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France (forthcoming).
• “Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Literary Humanism and the Question of Human Dignity,” in Research in African Literatures, vol. 52, no. 2, summer 2021, published by Indiana University Press (forthcoming).
• “Frantz Fanon: Postcoloniality and New Humanism” in The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature, edited by Michael Bryson, published by Routledge (forthcoming 2021).
• “Essaying against Empire: J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year” in Forum for Modern Language Studies, 52 (3): 241-256, July 2016, Oxford University Press.
• “Empire, Allegorical Imperative and Games of Truth: J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.” Colonization or Globalization: Postcolonial Explorations of Imperial Expansion. Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Chantal Zabus. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009. 125-136

Work in Progress

• "J. M. Coetzee: Language, Ethics, and the Critique of Humanism." (book manuscript)

Select Presentations

• “Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Fanon, and the Bildung of a ‘Native Woman,’” 2nd International Conference titled, “Name of a Discipline: Where are ‘Postcolonial’ Theories and Practices Going, and What Can We Call Them?”, organized under the aegis of French Society for Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (SEPC/ Société d'Etude des Pays du Commonwealth), Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France, January 2021.
• “Bandung, Frantz Fanon, and Edward Said: Postcoloniality and the Question of Humanism,” 28th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, February 2019.
• “Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Literary Humanism and The Problem of Human Dignity,” 9th Annual Conference of the South East African Languages and Literatures Forum (SEALLF): Celebrating Chinua Achebe & African Languages, Literatures, Arts and Cultures beyond the Continent: The 60th Anniversary of Things Fall Apart, Norfolk, October 2018.
• “Frantz Fanon: Postcoloniality and ‘New Humanism,’” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Pittsburgh, April 2018
• “Essaying against Empire: J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year,” Traverses: J. M. Coetzee in the World, a world-expert conference in celebration of Coetzee’s 75th birthday at the University of Adelaide, Australia, November 2014.
• “Justice, Ethics, and Practices of Freedom: J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” The Art of Outrage Conference, Fordham University, New York, October 2011.
• “Writing a Counter-Memory of Empire: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe,” Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, November 2009.
• “‘Is it Post- or is it Post’: Postcolonial Studies in the Era of Globalization,” XVIII Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2007.

Interviews

• Interviewed for the film and App on the life and works of J. M. Coetzee, titled "Traverses: J. M Coetzee in the World," directed by Professor Jennifer Rutherford, Director of The J. M. Coetzee Center for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2017. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traverses/id1265691203?mt=8

Events