Home > Faculty : Qadri M Ismail
Specialties
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cultural studies
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postcolonial literature
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literary theory
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gender/sexuality
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historiography
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democracy
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human rights
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the enlightenment
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the british nineteenth century
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cricket
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: English, Columbia University, 1998.
Publications
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"(Not) at Home in (Hindu) India: Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Critique of History.” : Ismail, Qadri M, Cultural Critique, 68 , 2008.
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Abiding by Sri Lanka: On Peace, Place and Postcoloniality. Ismail, Qadri M, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 'Public Worlds' Series, Author, 2005. Link
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"Towards a Critique of Anthropology." : Ismail, Qadri M, Cross Cultural Poetics, 14 , 2004.
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Something Like a Response to 9/11: Ismail, Qadri M, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 3(1) 149-156, 2002.
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Speaking to Sri Lanka: Ismail, Qadri M, Interventions, 3(2) 296-309, 2001.
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"Discipline and Colony: The English Patient and the Crow's Nest of Post-Coloniality.": Ismail, Qadri M, Postcolonial Studies, 3.2 , 1999.
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"Batting Against the Break: On Cricket, Nationalism and the Swashbuckling Sri Lankans.": Ismail, Qadri M, University of Minnesota Press, Social Text, Reprinted in Competing Allegories: The Global and Local Cultures of Sport. , 50 , 1997; 1999.
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Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka. Ismail, Qadri M, Co-editor, with Pradeep Jeganathan, Colombo: Social Scientists' Association, Author, 1995.
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"Foreign Policy [African-American Responses to].": Ismail, Qadri M, Macmillan, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History., 1996.
Courses Taught
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Ways of Knowing
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EngL 8400 - Culture and Colonialism
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Literature, History, Postcoloniality
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Developing (in) the Wake of Eurocentrism
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EngL 8610 - Reading a "Culturally Different Text": Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
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Marxism and Nationalism
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Modern India
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Narratives of Women in Islam
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EngL 5920 - Muslim Women Writers
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Postcolonial Literature
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EngL 3008 - Techniques of Literary Study
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Minority Literature
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