Episode 12
Brown Atlantis Radio feat. Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Episode Date: 6 July 2022
Guest: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Listen to EpisodeIn this episode of Brown Atlantis, we unlock the backbeats of the secret heart of a creole India: taking us from sugar factories in Cuba, to grinding spices in Trinidad, to rolling chapattis in Mauritius, to eating fufu like basmati rice in Benin. Through dance and food in an allegropolitics that replies to the violence of enslavement and indenture with embodied collective raucous joy.
This episode was commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly as part of the exhibition Brown Atlantis with the kind support of Rosa de Graaf, Vivian Ziherl and The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London, and the winner of India’s Infosys Prize for the Humanities (2018) and Germany’s Humboldt Prize (2019). She is currently writing ‘Alegropolitics: Creolising Connection on the Afromodern Dance Floor’ and creating a new research project on Creole Indias.
