The Colonial Mentality, Past and Present
Ronjaunee Chatterjee reviews "The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815" by Ashley L. Cohen.
Ronjaunee Chatterjee’s first book, Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature, is forthcoming in July 2022 with Stanford University Press. She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (expected 2023). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, ASAP Journal, differences, and other venues. She lives in Montreal where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, and critical race theory, as well as courses in the 19th century, at Concordia University.
Ronjaunee Chatterjee reviews "The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815" by Ashley L. Cohen.
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