Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry最新文献

Book Review: Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Conceptby Timothy 书评:《边缘上的生态批评:人类世作为一个门槛概念》蒂莫西著

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.35684/jlci.2019.5208

D. Pandiaraj

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Environment: From a Humanities Perspective: Introductory Thoughts 环境:从人文视角:导论

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.35684/JLCI.2019.5201

Sourit Bhattacharya, A. Chattopadhyay

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Negative Externalities of Modern Development: The ContinuingRelevanceof Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja 现代发展的负外部性:Gopinath Mohanty的Paraja的持续相关性

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.35684/JLCI.2019.5207

S. Mohapatra

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A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Perspective on Modern American Literature 美国现代文学的后殖民生态批评视角

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.35684/JLCI.2019.5204

Jihan Zakarriya

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“The Hidden Valleys of My Home”: Home, Identity, and Environmental Justice in the Select Works of Mamang Dai “我家的隐谷”:戴玛芒选集中的家、身份与环境正义

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.35684/JLCI.2019.5206

P. Chakraborty

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Human Subjects and “Green” Protestin Black African Photography at the Ninth Rencontres de Bamako 第九届巴马科摄影展上黑人非洲摄影作品中的人体主题与“绿色”抗议

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.35684/JLCI.2019.5205

Spring Ulmer

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Narrativising Community, Surviving Contagion: Orality in Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men 叙述共同体，生存传染:vsamronique Tadjo的《与人为伴》中的口述

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.35684/jlci.2023.9201

Sreya Mallika Datta

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Introduction: Caste in/as Humanities: Unsettling the Politics of Suffering 引言:种姓在/作为人文学科:扰乱政治的痛苦

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.35684/jlci.2019.6101

K. Das, S. Sengupta

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Ghiñn: A Reading of Disgust as a Literary Device in Subimal Mishra’s Short Fiction Ghiñn:阅读Subimal Mishra短篇小说中作为文学手段的厌恶

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.35684/jlci.2023.9206

Arijeet Mandal

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The Non-human, Haunting and the question of ‘Excess’ in Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover” 伊丽莎白·鲍文《恶魔情人》中的非人类、幽灵与“过度”问题

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.35684/jlci.2021.8103

Paromita Mukherjee

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