My Birth Is My Fatal Accident:Caste in India and What It Teaches Us about Ideologies of Social Inequality, including Rac

Professor Subramanian Shankar, University of Hawaii

By addressing the cultural affects of caste politics in South India, Dr. Shankar’s lecture will enhance the South Asian Studies program. He plans to address anti-caste activism in 20th century South India as well as the role caste plays in biography. In addressing this last point, Dr. Shankar intends to draw parallels with race in the US.

Dr. Shankar is a critic, novelist, and translator. His scholarly areas of interest are postcolonial literature (especially of Africa and South Asia), literature of immigration, film, and translation studies. He is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program. His most recent book is Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular(2012; U. of California P.; OrientBlackswan India).