Amardeep Singh

Postcolonial/Global literature and film, Modernism, African American literature, and the Digital Humanities.

Slides for SALA Conference 2025: "Adivasi" as Catachresis

Posted by Amardeep Singh at January 16, 2025

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My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is available on Amazon.

I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. Here are a few of them:
African American Poetry 1870-1926: A Digital Anthology

(shortcut: http://aapada.net)

The Kiplings and India.

Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)

Toni Morrison: a Teaching and Learning Resource Collection

Collected Poems of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance (1900-1922)

Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974.

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