Talk:Laura Brueck
Laura Brueck is Chair and associate professor of South Asian Literature and Culture, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. She is the co-founder and co-director, with Ivy Wilson, of the Race, Caste, and Colorism Project. She is also a founding board member of the Modern Endangered Archives Program.
As per her profile on Northwestern University webpage, her research interests span across caste and race, Dalit literature, Indian detective fiction and media, modern and contemporary Hindi literature, theory and practice of translation, postcolonial literature and literary theory, South Asian cinema and media studies, comparative literature, world literature.
In her research article “Good Dalits and Bad Brahmins: Melodramatic Realism in Dalit Short Stories,” she writes "Melodrama.. has the power to raise the status of the (Dalit) narrative movement of the revelation of that persecution to elevated heights. Melodramatic realism, as... employed in these two stories, therefore, serves as the chosen narrative mode for Dalit writers to represent their subjectivity, rage against injustice, and ultimately, triumph in the awareness of the possibility of change." She supports the portrayal of Brahmins as the moral pole of the bad and Dalits as the inherently innocent and victimised as 'realistic' and also supports the generalisation of the entire Brahmin population being projected in negative light based on her unsubstantial review of the two short stories covered in the paper[1].
As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva or the Indian Government.
In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made an unsubstantiated statement
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws." [2]
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- Brueck Laura's page on Northwestern University accessed on August 2
- Brueck Laura's page on Northwestern University accessed on August 2
- Brueck Laura's page on Google Scholar accessed on August 2