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Modern Maharashtra: Mapping Colonial Rule, Caste Relations and The Significance of Subaltern Movements 现代马哈拉施特拉邦:绘制殖民统治、种姓关系和次等运动的意义

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.009

Jondhale Rahul Hiraman

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Interrogating Desire in Contemporary Literature: Iterations around Gender and Its Relationship with the Culture of the Digital Realm 当代文学对欲望的追问:围绕性别的迭代及其与数字文化的关系

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.007

Anwesha Dutta

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Gender Inequality in Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in the Mosque Homeira Qaderi的《清真寺之舞》中的性别不平等

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.003

Ataullah Fazil

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Queering the Racial Other: Towards a Queer Africa 酷儿化的种族他人:走向一个酷儿的非洲

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.016

Ashmita Biswas

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Debunking the Power Structure of the Prevalent Western Logic: Interpreting Bob Dylan through the Lens of Derridean Philosophies 揭穿西方流行逻辑的权力结构:从德里安哲学的视角解读鲍勃·迪伦

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.012

Sanghamitra Ghatak

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The Humorous Treatment of Prostitutes by an Early Modern German Franciscan Preacher Poet: Johannes Pauli (1522) 近代早期德国方济会传教士诗人约翰内斯·泡利对妓女的幽默对待

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.018

Dr. Albrecht Classen

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Voice of Victimized Child Narrative: A Study of Sylvia Fraser’s My Father’s House 受害儿童叙事之声:西尔维娅·弗雷泽《我父亲的家》研究

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.010

R. Murugesan

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