Essay Reading Challenge 2010

Since I practically do this anyway - what fun to have some added motivation! Edit: I seriously underestimated the amount I read so i'm setting a bigger challenge - 150 essays! This may well increase over the year. But that's a start.


Essay Reading Challenge 2010
January 1, 2010 -November 31, 2010
Goal: read 30 essays
Updated goal (Jan 10th): 150


Essays read:

• Jan 7th: Samira Kawash, Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity and Singularity in African-American Literature.
• Jan 7th: Vijay Mishra, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary.
• Jan 7th: Deepika Bahri, Native Intelligence.
• Jan 7th: Priyamvada Gopal, Literary Radicalism in India.
• Jan 10th: Samira Kawash, Dislocating the Color Line.
• Jan 10th: Deepika Bahri, Native Intelligence.
• Jan 10th: Vijay Mishra, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora - Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary.
• Jan 10th: Lucia Michelutti, The Vernacularisation of Democracy.
• Jan 10th: David Ludden, ed., Contesting the Nation: Community, Religion and the Politics of Democracy in India.
• Jan 10th: Priyamvada Gopal, Literary Radicalism in India.
• Jan 10th: D.E. Smith, India as a Secular State.
• Jan 10th: Dolan Hubbard, '"'Ah said Ah'd save de text for you'": Recontextualizing the Sermon to Tell (Her)story in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'.
• Jan 10th: Daphne Lamothe, Vodou Imagery, African-American Tradition and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'.
• Jan 10th: Deborah Clarke, "The porch couldn't talk for looking": Voice and Vision in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Jan 10th: Lovalerie King, The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston.
• Jan 10th: Molly Abel Travis, 'Beloved' and 'Middle Passage': Race, Narrative and the Critic's Essentialism.
• Jan 10th: Karla F.C. Holloway, Holy Heat: Rituals of the Spirit in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'. 
• Jan 10th: Parama Roy, Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India.
• Jan 10th: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, ed., A History of Indian Literature in English.
• Jan 10th: Hugh M. Gloster, Zora Neale Hurston, Novelist and Folklorist.
• Jan 10th: Jennifer Jordan, Feminist Fantasies: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Jan 10th: Diane Matza, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Toni Morrison's Sula: A Comparison.
• Jan 10th: Ryan Simmons, "The Hierarchy Itself": Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and the Sacrifice of Narrative Authority.
• Jan 10th: Lori Jirousek,"That Communality of Feeling": Hurston, Hybridity and Ethnography.