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Unwomanly Woman: How Some Nineteenth-Century British Fictions Imagined Begum Samru of Sardhana 不像女人的女人:一些19世纪的英国小说如何想象萨达那的贝居姆·萨姆茹

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2021.v01.n02.002

Ayusman Chakraborty

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Writing the Self: A Study on Buchi Emecheta’s Autobiographical Novel Second Class Citizen 书写自我:布奇·埃米切塔自传体小说《二等公民》研究

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Arunima Borah

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Cultural Translation and Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Thang Fhâkhri Tahcildârar Tâmar Tarowâl 文化翻译与Mamoni Raisom Goswami的Thang fhkhri tahcild<e:1> rar tmar tarow<e:2>

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Purabi Goswami

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Writing as Resistance: A Reading of Mohsin Hamid’s Select Novels 作为反抗的写作:莫辛·哈米德小说选集解读

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Rongina Narzary

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On a Country in Captive: A Review on Aruni Kashyap’s There Is No Good Time for Bad News 一个被俘虏的国家:评阿鲁尼·卡什亚普的《坏消息没有好时机》

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Aruni Kashyap’s, S. Sudhakar

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Lydia’s silence: Representation of trauma from an ex-centric position in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit 莉迪亚的沉默:阿克玛特·丹戈尔《苦果》中创伤的前中心表现

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Vipasha Bhardwa

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The Politics of Trauma and Resistance in Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black. 迪奥普《夜皆血黑》中创伤与反抗的政治。

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M. P. Nath

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Ideology and Subversion: A Comparative Study of Mrinal Sen’s Padatik and Raghav Bandopadhyay’s Communis 意识形态与颠覆:森的《共产主义》与班多帕德哈伊的《共产主义》比较研究

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Pratyusha Pramanik

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Kantian Categories of Ethics and Morality: A Reading of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being 康德的伦理与道德范畴——解读米兰·昆德拉的《不能承受的生命之轻》

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Preetinicha Barman, Preetinicha Barman

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Agency of the Witches and Language Play in Shakespeare’s Macbeth 莎士比亚《麦克白》中女巫的代理与语言游戏

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Dhurjjati Sarma

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