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Identitti
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Mithu Sanyal (born 1971)
Translated by Alta L. Price
English editions
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Astra House · United States · 2022 · 384 pages
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It is the 2020s, and it's complicated. A scandal breaks: Professor Saraswati is WHITE! It could not be worse, because the professor of postcolonial studies in Düsseldorf was until yesterday the supreme goddess of every debate on identity, and described herself as a person of colour. While the internet hounds Saraswati, her student Nivedita, a blogger, asks her the most intimate questions: are we simply ourselves, or above all women or men, Black or white? In dialogues, blog posts and invented tweets by real public figures, the story lays out positions that seem irreconcilable, with self-irony and a delight in argument.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 430 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 2020s
- First published
- 2021 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9783446269217 (original)
9781662601293 (Astra House, United States)
- More
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