Let me begin with a personal conviction, put bluntly: the non-Western artist in Denmark (and Europe in general), like the average non-Western person in Denmark, lives in a state of ‘visible invisibility’ This ‘visible invisibility’ can be highlighted in different ways. I have known of non-Western artists—and, for that matter, non-Western writers (including a serious…
Sometimes my students come to me and ask, perhaps not in so few words but always in various degrees of panic, can the subaltern speak? Some have been known to gesture wildly—clothes dishevelled, hair astray–at Gayatri Spivak’s famous essay of that title. Usually I try to calm them down and discuss the issue with lengthy…
As a capital and a city, Copenhagen is more central to Denmark than Delhi is to India or Washington is to the USA. This doesn’t appear to be the case at first sight. After all, Delhi is on the national mainland and so is Washington, while Copenhagen is on an island off Jutland, which forms…
