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This seminar will focus on contemporary British writer Rajeev Balasubramanyam, who has published three novels and numerous short stories to date; a fourth novel (yet unpublished) dealing with Western fascination with Eastern spirituality was presented at a reading in Berlin in 2014. In his award-winning fiction, Balasubramanyam covers a wide range of topics, exploring his Indian roots and addressing pertinent issues surrounding Britain’s multicultural society. The author has recently published Star Struck, a series of ten interlinked narratives featuring chance encounters with celebrities; he has also co-edited a volume of contemporary short fiction.
We will read and discuss Balasubramanyam’s novels In Beautiful Disguise (2000), Star-Struck (2010), as well as Tell Tales Vol. 2 (2005), a collection of short stories edited by Rajeev Balasubramanyam and Courttia Newman.
Texts:
- Rajeev Balasubramanyam, In Beautiful Disguise (Bloomsbury paperback)
- R. Balasubramanyam, Star-Struck (free download available via the author’s website)
- R. Balasubramanyam and Courttia Newman, eds. Tell Tales. Vol 2 (Flipped Eye Publishing)
- Barbara Korte and Eva Ulrike Pirker, eds. Britain Re-Written: Stories of a Multi-Ethnic Nation (Reclam)
- a photocopied reader containing further material will be available at Priebe’s copyshop (Segerothstr.) from the beginning of April
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