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'Before the Battle': Karthika Naïr in Conversation with Laetitia Zecchini

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In the following interview, which also continues previous conversations (including one conducted for a special issue of the journal South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Naïr 2020a] we talk about the different worlds and arts straddled by Karthika Naïr; about the experience of diaspora and nomadism; about the city of Paris, and her relationship to her two countries, France and India; about how “home” can attach itself to certain specific spaces and places; about the “bastardized, eclectic imaginaire” she claims as her own; the partnerships and collaborations that sustain her writing and her sense of belonging; about the importance of dance and fable; how the experience of vulnerability and living with a “dysfunctional body” has impacted her writing; about literary activism and how literary texts can “respond” to violence, to terror and damage, can “give voice” to pain and also chronicle the wonder of living.

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Laetitia Zecchini. 'Before the Battle': Karthika Naïr in Conversation with Laetitia Zecchini. Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose. Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers, ibidem Press / Columbia University Press, pp.192-211, 2021, 9783838215440. ⟨hal-03364833⟩
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