Baidik Bhattacharya Book Talk: Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters

Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor at the Centre for Developing Societies in Delhi, India.  He works at the crossroads of literary studies, social sciences, and philosophy.  He is the author of Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor of Novel Formations: The Indian Beginnings of a European Genre (Permanent Black, 2018) and The Postcolonial Gramsci (Routledge, 2012).  He will be speaking at Barnard about his most recent book, Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters, which has just appeared in 2024 with Cambridge University Press.