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020			_a9781662601293 _qhbk.
040			_beng _cJGU
041			_aeng _hger
100			_aSanyal, Mithu, _91637540 _eauthor
245			_aIdentitti : _ba novel / _cMithu Sanyal; translated by Alta L. Price.
260			_aNew York : _bAstra House, _c2022.
520			_aNivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisor—superstar postcolonial and race studies South-Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita’s praise of her professor during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks—and before she learns the truth—calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media, blogs, and among her closest friends, Nivedita’s assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor. In her thought-provoking, genre-bending debut, Mithu Sanyal solicited the contributions and commentary of public intellectuals as if Saraswati were a real person. A darkly comedic tour de force, Identitti showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and the power of claiming your own voice.
650			_aBlack humor _9201947
650			_aSatirical literature _91638032
700	1		_aPrice, Alta L., _etranslator _952247
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