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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jan 16

Our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, is now featured in University of Alberta Press’s 2025 fall catalog, & has a breathtaking cover designed by the Paris-based artist Rakajoo. Very grateful to my co-editor Paul Ugor for his invaluable partnership.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 8d

It’s here! Hot off the Press! Almost half a decade of hard work on this project, culminating to this point! The book releases worldwide tomorrow! @ualbertapress.bsky.social

A person smiling while holding up a copy of the book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman. The background shows a softly lit room with light-colored curtains and plants.

A view of a bookshelf with multiple books and decorative items. The book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman is prominently displayed on a stand beside a glowing orange lamp

A close-up of the book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman displayed on a bookshelf next to a warm, glowing lamp and several other books.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 12d

This looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing Michelle @mlobkowicz.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get my copy ❤️

Michelle Lobkowicz @mlobkowicz.bsky.social · 12d

Hot of the press and releasing shortly. @arnabdr.bsky.social it is beautiful! Featuring stunning artwork by Rakajoo, Face à toi, 2021.

Book cover for The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions.

Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 12d

Wow! So beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing Michelle!

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 20d

Thrilled to give a talk at UCF on Oct 2 as part of the CHDR Presents talk series! This will also mark the launch of our new book (w Paul Ugor), The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (out with @ualbertapress.bsky.social on Sept 23). Grateful to Amrita Ghosh & UCF for the invitation & hospitality!

Poster for a UCF CHDR talk by Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy on Oct 2, 2025, 3:30pm, Trevor Colbourn Hall 325. Talk title: “The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Youthful (Re)Formations and Narratives of Development from the Global South.” Includes photo of the speaker.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 25d

And yay! Got the first invite in France (well done babes) to speak on the Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. In French. Invite accepted, date noted. Please order for your libraries if you have institutional affiliation.

Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Sep 2

I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory.
So many feels!

Me holding the packet from Sage in the lift

Me showing the book cover of the Handbook. The cover lists all the co-editors names

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 26d

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Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book

newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...

Screenshot of a podcast episode page featuring Rose Casey’s book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style with summary text, book cover, audio player, and host details for Arnab Dutta Roy.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 8

In "Acoustic Colonialism," Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production and struggles over colonialism and Indigenous agency. Read the intro for free on our website! #SoundStudies #NativeStudies buff.ly/JXrrr9r

Cover of Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante. The cover art features a geometric textile design in an olive green and cobalt blue against a black background. The title appears in a cream sans-serif type centered at the top and bottom. Above the design and below the first word of the title sits the subtitle in a cream serif type. The author's name is directly below the design in a cream serif type.

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have a new essay in Journal of World Literature on empathy and the perpetrator of traumatic violence.

Journal of World Literature special issue announcement

Article by Robin E. Field, "The Extremities of Empathy: The Perpetrator's Perspective in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life" in Journal of World Literature.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Sep 5

What a unique and fantastic essay! Thank you for this amazing contribution.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Sep 4

The JWL Special Issue, Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, co-edited by @somishmash.bsky.social & myself, is out! A heartfelt thanks to my co-editor, the JWL staff, & our wonderful contributors.

brill.com/view/journal...

Journal cover Image that gives information/details about the special issue.

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · Aug 22

Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/6SZM9Pn

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you for everything Michelle. We wouldn’t have come this far without your help and support. ❤️

Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Aug 21

The stunning final cover of our book is ready for printing! Can’t believe that The Postcolonial a Bildungsroman is out in a month! Thank you @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Please preorder/check out the book here: ualbertapress.ca/978177212770...

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jul 14

So happy that the Special Issue "Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy & the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature that @somishmash.bsky.social & I co-edited for the Journal of World Literature is now in production, to be out in September.

Please check out the TOC & issue abstract 👇🏼

Table of Contents for Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, listing eight chapters by various scholars on empathy and world literature.

Abstract of the introduction to the special issue, outlining its argument that narrative empathy can support anticolonial resistance and ethical border-crossing in world literature.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 12

Looks amazing.

"The Postcolonial Bildungsroman:
Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions"
Edited by: Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor

#Lit #BookSky @ualbertapress.bsky.social

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Jul 12

New book! Check it out 👇

Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jul 12

New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (with @ualbertapress.bsky.social) just dropped, and it’s from none other than the wonderful & brilliant Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee.

The book is out in September. Please consider pre-ordering & spreading the word!

tinyurl.com/4ckuc86y

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you 🙏🏾

Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you so much ☺️

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jul 8

‼️MATCH ALERT‼️

In honor of Ghassan Kanafani's life, ALL proceeds from today's sale of his books through our online bookshop at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social will be doubled (and, yes, if you've already purchased a book today, it counts!) 🌿

Links to the books below 📚📚❤️‍🔥

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Jul 4

Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it.
A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory.

uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

Cover of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory with an image of Palestinian Tartreez

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jun 24

Remain grateful to @arnabdr.bsky.social for including my @edinburghup.bsky.social book in his excellent series at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...

Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sorry, I am so late in replying. It was such a pleasure chatting with you and getting to know about your brilliant research!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thrilled for Zohran, for New York City, and for some new voices and ideas in American politics!

Some may know I wrote a book on Mira Nair's films (2018). In honor of Zohran's victory, I've posted an excerpt of my chapter on "Mississippi Masala" here:

www.electrostani.com/2025/06/mira... 1/3

Mira Nair, Mahmood Mamdani, and "Mississippi Masala" (book chapter excerpt)

www.electrostani.com

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