Mithu Sanyal

“What a mercilessly funny search for identity that spares nothing and no one. You’re not only smarter after reading it – you’re also guaranteed to be in a better mood.” (Alina Bronsky)

What a scandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati is WHITE! It doesn’t get any worse than that. Because the professor of Postcolonial Studies in Düsseldorf was just the supergoddess of all debates about identity – and described herself as a person of color. As if Sally Rooney, Beyoncé and Frantz Fanon were watching Sex Education together, a hunt for “real” belonging begins.
As the web hounds Saraswati and demos call for her dismissal, her student Nivedita asks her most intimate questions.

Mithu Sanyal writes with delightful self-irony and liberating knowledge. No one leaves the spin cycle of this novel as he or she entered it.

Dr. Mithu Sanyal was born in Düsseldorf in 1971 and is a cultural scientist, author, journalist and critic. In 2009, she published her non-fiction book Vulva. The Invisible Sex, 2016 Rape. Aspects of a Crime. In 2021, Hanser Verlag will publish her first novel Identitti.

Moderation and discussion: Leyla Jagiella, ethnologist and religious scholar.

In the series Young Voices at LiZ

In cooperation with the City of Heidelberg, Office for Equal Opportunities and Mosaik Deutschland e.V. as part of the federal program ” Democracy Live!” of the Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

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