Yogita Goyal is a professor of African American studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019). She has published widely on African diasporic, postcolonial, and US literature, and is writing a book on anti-colonial thought and its current revival.
Yogita Goyal
Articles
A Novelist with a Fury: Reading Arundhati Roy in the Present
Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political activism.
No Mere Slogans: On Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Yogita Goyal reviews Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
No Strangers Here
Refusing polarized narratives, Toni Morrison's "The Origin of Others" takes up the nebulous task of understanding what it is to estrange or make familiar.
Coming Home from Irony: An Interview with Percival Everett, Author of “So Much Blue”
Yogita Goyal talks to Percival Everett about appropriation, "Get Out," Los Angeles, and his new novel.
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