"Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out."—Olivia Craighead, The New York TimesNivedita (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.
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Identitti: A Novel
von Mithu Sanyal
"Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out."—Olivia Craighead, The New York TimesNivedita (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.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)
Rezension von Daniela WigbelsIch wollte es so sehr mögen, weil es alles hat, um ein tolles Buch zu sein, aber leider führten die Dialoge für mich nirgendwohin und die Protagonist*innen drehten sich konstant im Kreis. War bestimmt meta und so beabsichtigt, aber ab Seite 150 hab ich angefangen querzulesen und dann schlussendlich abgebrochen.
Rezension von ArminEine humorvolle Art gesellschaftliche Themen wie Rassismus, Diskriminierung und Sexismus zu behandeln. Es könnte eine Schullektüre sein, weil Begriffe wie white supremacy oder blackfacing, werden einfach erklärt anhand von Beispielen, die man sofort versteht. Eine tolle Art um die Identitätssuche zu beschreiben, um am Ende der Lektüre bisschen besser drauf zu sein. Irgendwann langweilten mich zwar die Figuren am Ende…