Dr. Sara Kazmi [Class of 2017, PhD in English] is a scholar, translator, and performer based at the University of Pennsylvania, whose work takes on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of anticolonial, left and oppositional literary production in the Global South. She focuses on the Panjab region, and more broadly on South Asia and South Asian diasporas, combining methods in literary studies, performance, and history to examine how marginal and vernacular writing engages planetary debates around decolonisation, Marxism and revolutionary transformation. She is currently working on a book titled Anti-Border Poetics: Literary Dissent and Popular Tradition in India/Pakistan. Her monograph will argue that left-wing and oppositional Panjabi writers from 1960s and 1970s India and Pakistan, critiqued and resisted the internal exclusions and external borders that govern South Asia, through reflexive engagement with oral and performative regional traditions. Drawing on close reading, archival research, interviews, ethnography, and translation the book will trace genealogical links across historical periods, religious communities, and national contexts, between texts, both oral and textual, to reveal how the two Panjabs, Indian and Pakistani, resist the bordering logics of postcolonial nation-states.
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