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Playing the White Man: Ronald Merrick, Whiteness, and Erotic Triangles in Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet 扮演白人:罗纳德·梅里克，白人，以及保罗·斯科特拉杰四重奏中的情色三角形

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043284

R. Crane

引用次数: 1

Victorian Poetry and the Indigenous Poet: Apirana Ngata’s “A Scene from the Past” 维多利亚时代诗歌与土著诗人:阿皮拉纳·恩加塔的《往事》

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043291

J. Stafford, Mark B. Williams

引用次数: 2

Writing Sri Lanka, Reading Resistance: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and A. Sivanandan’s When Memory Dies 写斯里兰卡，读抵抗:希亚姆·塞尔瓦杜莱的《滑稽男孩》和a·西瓦南丹的《当记忆消逝》

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043283

Minoli Salgado

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引用次数: 13

The Imbalance of Islam: Muslims and Unhappiness in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy 伊斯兰教的不平衡:维克拉姆·赛斯《合适的男孩》中的穆斯林和不幸

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/002198904043285

I. Almond

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引用次数: 1

David Malouf’s Moments Musicaux David Malouf的音乐时刻

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381003

Stephen Benson

引用次数: 1

Archive of Bones: Anil’s Ghost and the Ends of History 骨头档案:阿尼尔的幽灵和历史的终结

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381005

A. Burton

引用次数: 25

Postcolonial Science Fiction: Amitav Ghosh’s the Calcutta Chromosome 后殖民科幻小说:阿米塔夫·高希的《加尔各答染色体》

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381006

C. Chambers

引用次数: 32

Tropes of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga 向往与异议的比喻:伊冯娜·薇拉和齐西·丹格雷姆加对欲望的描写

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381010

E. Boehmer

引用次数: 13

The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy’s Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 小事物之神:阿兰达蒂·罗伊的后殖民世界主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381007

A. Tickell

引用次数: 23

Salman Rushdie, Author of the Captive’s Tale 萨尔曼·拉什迪，《俘虏的故事》的作者

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2003-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404381009

Bruce R. Burningham

引用次数: 2