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Author: Ananya Kanai Shah

Critical Essays

The Musicality of Memory in The Hakawati
ByAnanya Kanai Shah June 9, 2020August 29, 2025

Rabih Alamaddine’s 2008 novel unleashes music and sound to interrogate the deeply profound and sublime in the seemingly mundane and ordinary.

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Critical Essays

Shame, Shamelessness, and Violence
ByAnanya Kanai Shah August 20, 2019

Salman Rushdie’s fantastical 1983 novel explores and illustrates the slippery relationship between shame and violence—when accumulated, the former often leads to the latter.

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Critical Essays

Memory and Documentation in The Barefoot Woman and “Khol Do”
ByAnanya Kanai Shah June 4, 2019

Two works explore violence against women in the midst of the Rwandan genocide and the Partition of India.

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