Bøger af Bhanu Kapil

Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart-stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told.

New edition of this long out of-print classic of diasporic literature, featuring a foreword by Eunsong Kim, an afterword by Emgee Dufresne, and new endnotes by Bhanu Kapil."Shame, perhaps, is related to domination, and to being dominated, but also to the moment--always missed--in which speaking up might be possible."Poetry. Hybrid. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies.

[out of nothing] is an electronic publication featuring new works in image, sound, text and the digital arts, as well as works located at the intersections between these media.[out of nothing]is published in online installments as well as occasional print editions, on an irregular but roughly semiannual seasonal basis that nevertheless remains chronically TBD. Each issue is theme-based, and is introduced by a special M.C.; or, emcee. [out of nothing] is edited by Lee, Janice, 1956-1984; Lindley, Eric, 1952 -1982; and Milazzo, Joe, 1932 -1972. email: shelling.peanuts@gmail.com. For more information, please visit: http: //www.outofnothing.org/. [Anthology.] [out of nothing] #0: "theoretical perspectives on the substance preceding [nothing]." / [Various authors.] p. cm. 1. Literature, Experimental. 2. Literature, Modern -21st century. 3. Multimedia (Art).I. Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007. II. Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. III. Derrida, Jacques, (1930-2004). IV. Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. V. Title. PN6014 .O98 2012 808.8/0047 Copyright (c) 2012 [out of nothing]. Authors hold the rights to their individual works. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Originally published in America in 2006, Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one thing nor another, this fragmentary-diaristic text journeys through the spaces in-between.

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies. In this new prose document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate these orphans--through language instruction and forcible correction of supinated limbs--HUMANIMAL functions as a healing mutation for three bodies and a companion poiesis for future physiologies. Through wolfgirls Kamala and Amala, there is a grafting: what scars down into the feral opens out also into the fierce, into a remembrance of Kapil's father. The humanimal text becomes one in which personal and postcolonial histories cross a wilderness to form supported metabiology. "Lucidly, holographically, your heart pulsed in the air next to your body; then my eyes clicked the photo into place. Future child, in the time you lived in, your arms always itched and flaked. To write this, the memoir of your body, I slip my arms into the sleeves of your shirt. I slip my arms into yours, to become four-limbed."

Poetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of the travelog and the coming of age novel. It is written by a young Indian woman whose travels take her between homes in two countries, India and England, and through parts of the United States. These short pieces reveal new ways of belonging in the world and possibilities for an art grounded in a localized cosmopolitan culture.

An evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers

A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora