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Janet Frame (1924-2004) 珍妮特·弗雷姆(1924-2004)

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044742

Mark Williams

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Rewriting the Empire of the Imagination: The Post-Imperial Gothic Fiction of Peter Carey and A.S. Byatt 改写想象帝国:彼得·凯里和A.S.拜厄特的后帝国哥特式小说

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044736

K. Renk

引用次数: 3

Creating an Alternative Library: Amma Darko Interviewed by Ellie Higgins 创建另类图书馆:艾丽·希金斯对Amma Darko的采访

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044740

MaryEllen Higgins

引用次数: 1

Emulative Versus Revisionist Occidentalism: Monetary and Other Values in Recent Singaporean Fiction 竞争与修正的西方主义:近代新加坡小说中的货币与其他价值观

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044737

T. Wagner

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Private and Public Secrets: Family and State in Nuruddin Farah’s Secrets 私人和公共秘密:努鲁丁·法拉的秘密中的家庭和国家

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044733

Derek Wright

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引用次数: 2

Wilson Katiyo (1947-2003) Wilson Katiyo（1947-2003）

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044743

Ranka Primorac, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo

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引用次数: 1

Salman Rushdie and Aijaz Ahmad: Satire, Ideology and Shame 萨尔曼·拉什迪与艾贾兹·艾哈迈德:讽刺、意识形态与耻辱

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044735

Andrew Teverson

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A Madwoman in a Cape Breton Attic: Jane Eyre in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees 布雷顿角阁楼上的疯女人:安妮·玛丽·麦克唐纳《跪下吧》中的简·爱

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043286

Pilar Somacarrera

引用次数: 3

“Immigrant” or “Post-colonial”? Towards a Poetics for Reading the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter “移民”还是“后殖民”?慕克吉《老虎的女儿》中解读民族的诗学

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043288

S. Gabriel

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引用次数: 4

Toru Dutt: A Reappraisal 托鲁·杜特:重新评估

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043287

Smita Agarwal

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