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The Caribbean 加勒比海

3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1177/00219894231200071

Victoria V Chang

引用次数: 0

Malayalam literature as a transnational space of political change: Migration and Bahrain’s 2011 uprising in Benyamin’s Jasmine Days and Al Arabian Novel Factory 马拉雅拉姆文学作为政治变革的跨国空间:本雅明的《茉莉花的日子》和阿拉伯小说工厂中的移民和巴林2011年起义

3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/00219894221145213

Nadeen Dakkak

引用次数: 0

The White Whipping Boy: Simon in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People 白人鞭子男孩:西蒙在Keri Hulme的骨头人

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054304

A. Rauwerda

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引用次数: 7

“Mouthwork”: Food and Language as the Corporeal Home for the Unhoused Diasporic Body in South Asian Women’s Writing “口舌”:南亚女性写作中无家可归的流散体的物质家园——食物与语言

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054309

Sneja Gunew

引用次数: 7

Walk Good: West Indian Oratorical Traditions in Bob Marley’s Uprising 走好:鲍勃·马利起义中的西印度演讲传统

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054305

Hugh Hodges

引用次数: 4

Not a Home: Hindi Women Poets Narrating “Home” 不是家:印度女诗人讲述“家”

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054310

Lucy Rosenstein

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引用次数: 5

Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition, Women and Homelessness 分裂的家园，敌对的家园:分裂，妇女和无家可归

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054314

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

引用次数: 7

“Virtual Reality on Infinite Bandwidth”: Vikram Chandra interviewed by Maria-Sabina Alexandru “无限带宽上的虚拟现实”:Vikram Chandra接受Maria-Sabina Alexandru采访

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054303

引用次数: 3

At Home in the Nation? Negotiating Identity in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy1 在国内?希亚姆·塞尔瓦杜莱的《滑稽男孩》中的身份谈判

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989405054312

S. Jayawickrama

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引用次数: 10

A Symposium on Narratives of “Home” in South Asian Literature 南亚文学“家”叙事研讨会

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2005-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198940504000207

引用次数: 0