...Ruth Ellen Kocher Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed...

...Cheryl Higashida Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed...

...Bhanu Kapil Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 W r i t i n g / n o t - w r i t i ng: T H[A] [ E ] DlASPORIC S E L F : NOTES Tow ard a Race R iot Scene B h a n u Ka p il 1. In April 1979, I was ten years old. This is a short essay about vectors. It's about Brueghel's...

...Francisco Aragón Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed...

..., m ight render the self inaccessible, unread­ able, to itself.Thus Bhanu Kapil asks, "h ow do you w rite a self that never persisted, just as some bodies . . . don't. Don't arrive. Don't come forward into the tim e they are written in because, in the tim e that they existed, they never were" (36...

... such as American Literature, MELUS, Western American Literature, Legacy, and Studies in American Fiction. He is currently at work on a book focusing on the narrative representation of child soldiers around the world. Bhanu Kapil teaches at Naropa University and Goddard College. She is the author of four books...