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Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna (2022)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2022). Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna. Shakespeare Bulletin, 40(3), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2022.0035

Habib Tanvir (1923–2009) was a noted Indian playwright who combined different influences to create what Anjum Katyal has termed “inclusive theatre.” In 1993 he translated and directed a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream entitled Kamd... Read More about Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna.

Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language (2021)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2021). Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language. South Asian Review, 42(2), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2021.1878986

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are filled with male translators, particularly civil servants, translating Shakespeare into Indian vernacular languages. These translations have been archived in repositories like the British library... Read More about Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language.

Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies (2019)
Journal Article
Havard, J., Cardwell, E., & Rao, A. (2019). Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies. Radical Teacher: a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2019.729

The project of creating an anti-oppressive composition issue began with multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration between Julia Havard, Erica Cardwell, Anandi Rao, Juliet Kunkle and Rosalind Diaz, who crafted a call for community-building... Read More about Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies.

Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her (2019)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2019). Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her. Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 9(2), 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm.9.2.129_1

This article examines the representation of Prachi, one of the chief subjects of the Indo-Canadian documentary The World Before Her, as a queer girl who finds the space to articulate her non-heteronormativity in a right-wing Hindu training camp for g... Read More about Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her.