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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
Description: Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitanâs dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity of provincial life, its tics and taunts, enthusiasms and tragicomedies.In a wide-ranging series of âpostcardsâ from the peripheries of India, Europe, America, and the Middle East, Roy brings u...