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What if India were thought of in the plural? Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory reimagines postcolonial cartographies through a poetics of fragments that links islands, coastlines and oceans to decentre India's subcontinental core. A literary critical methodology, drawing on archipelagic theory, island studies, and transoceanic memory work, reveals littoral and island geographies as dynamic and porous sites of creolised cultural memory that unsettle fixed notions of nation, home, and history. Island Indias invites you to navigate a fluid world assembled across discontinuous shores, where memory drifts, ruptures, and resurfaces to make fragmentation a method of world-making. Contributors are: Rosa Beunel-Fogarty, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Farha Noor, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Shazia Rahman, Luca Raimondi, and Sandrine Soukaï.

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Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King's College London, and Fellow of the British Academy. She works on creolisation and archipelagicity across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Luca Raimondi is Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, where he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow from 2021-2024. He works on literary and cultural geographies of the Indian Ocean, archipelagic studies, and Afro-Asian print cultures. Sandrine Soukaï is Associate Professor of Anglophone Studies at Gustave Eiffel University. Her research explores postcolonial literatures, South Asian arts and literatures, Caribbean literatures, trauma studies, memory studies, Partition studies, indenture, creolisation, and archipelagic studies.

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