Comparative Colonialisms: Joyce, Anand, and the Question of Engagement

Berman, Jessica

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“…The dose of ketamine to induce schizophrenia-relevant deficits is below the anesthetic dose, that is, 5-10 mg/kg subcutaneous injections [25][26][27] are used in rats and 0.3-0.5 mg/kg intravenous injections in human studies [1,28], compared with 70-80 mg/kg and 1.0-4.5 mg/kg (2 mg/kg for 5-10 min anesthesia) used for anesthesia in rodents and human, respectively. It is worth noting that the ketamine dose found effective for treatment of depression is also 0.5 mg/kg i/v [29,30]. Thus, there are efforts underway to find a way to attenuate the ketamine-induced psychotomimetic effect for the treatment of depression [31][32][33][34].The limitations of behavioral models of schizophrenia have been recognized, and it has been argued that animal modeling of inherently human disorders, like schizophrenia, might be impossible [18].…”

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Impact of Ketamine on Neuronal Network Dynamics: Translational Modeling of Schizophrenia‐Relevant Deficits

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Subanesthetic doses of the psychomimetic, ketamine, have been used for many years to elicit behavioral effects reminiscent of schizophrenia in both healthy humans and in animal models of the disease. More recently there has been a move towards the use of simple neurophysiological measures (event related potentials, brain oscillations) to assay the functional integrity of neuronal circuits in schizophrenia since these measures can be assessed in patients, healthy controls, intact animals, and even in brain slices. Furthermore, alterations of these measures are correlated with basic information processing deficits which are now considered central to the disease. Thus, here we review recent studies which determine the effect of ketamine on these measures and discuss to what extent they recapitulate findings in schizophrenic patients. In particular, we examine methodological differences between human and animal studies and compare in vivo and in vitro effects of ketamine. Ketamine acts on multiple cortical and subcortical sites, as well as on receptors other than the NMDA receptor. Acute ketamine models changes correlated with psychotic states (e.g. increased baseline gamma band oscillations) whereas chronic ketamine causes cortical circuit changes and neurophysiological deficits (e.g. impaired event- related gamma band oscillations) correlated with cognitive impairments in schizophrenia.

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“…Even before that the colonial administration and missionaries were the first to 'record' and articulate the lives of these people who were denied a space in nationalist narrations. As a consequence of colonial 3 For a discussion on Anand's modernism, see Berman (2011 administrative and missionary interventions in the social and educational sphere, Dalits gradually gained mobility and began to organize themselves politically.…”

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Christopher

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“…There is a reiteration then that although the social message is undoubtedly worthy, it is not always delivered in a sufficiently aesthetic manner. Conversely, recent articles in journals such as Modernism/Modernity (Breman 2006;Baer 2009) have attempted to reinstate the value of aesthetics in Anand's work by viewing him as an anti-colonial writer with Bloomsbury connections who is both writing to and back to a high modernism. Neither set of critics (those who read him for his social realism nor those who value him in relation to his aesthetics) pays attention to Anand's striking insistence on the commodification of the bodies of young boys.…”

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Alienated coolie-boy/alien language: Reading the subaltern adolescent in Mulk Raj Anand'sCoolie

Singh

2012

Contemporary South Asia

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The primary focus of this essay is on the representation of child labour in Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie (1936). I argue that the young-ness of Munoo, the coolie-boy is significant for understanding Anand's social critique of the colonial-capitalist machinery and its reliance upon the sub-waged labour of children and adolescents. It is limiting to read the novel as merely a social critique, however, as it also opens up crucial debates on what it means for an Indian writer writing in English to represent a young ostracised citizen-subject who can hear English and mimic its sounds without having access to an English education. Anand's use of an adolescent is thus significant as an early attempt at foregrounding regional disenfranchisement in English. Through the tropes of listening, seeing, and smelling, and Anand's selective translations and transliterations, I show why Munoo's adolescence matters: it provides a social commentary as well as enabling Anand to highlight the conundrum of representing Munoo's semi-literate, nonEnglish subjectivity into the English language.

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Comparative Colonialisms: Joyce, Anand, and the Question of Engagement

Cited by 12 publications

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Impact of Ketamine on Neuronal Network Dynamics: Translational Modeling of Schizophrenia‐Relevant Deficits

Impact of Ketamine on Neuronal Network Dynamics: Translational Modeling of Schizophrenia‐Relevant Deficits

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Alienated coolie-boy/alien language: Reading the subaltern adolescent in Mulk Raj Anand'sCoolie

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