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Making of Nooses: Accentuating Vulnerability, Resilience, and Violence in K.R. Meera’s Hangwoman 制作绞索：在 K.R. Meera 的《女刽子手》中强调脆弱性、复原力和暴力

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3000

Pragya Dev, Binod Mishra, Iit Roorkee

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The Missing Person in a Story about Kashmir: A Reading of Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field 克什米尔故事中的失踪者：解读马杜里-维杰的《远方的田野

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2996

Esther Daimari, Debajyoti Biswas

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Lament for Watermelon 西瓜悲歌

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3016

Muhammad Shah Daniel

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Redundant Acronym Syndrome in Indonesian News Articles: A Corpus Analysis Approach 印度尼西亚新闻文章中的冗余首字母缩略词综合症：语料库分析方法

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3001

Syafruddin, Brillianing Pratiwi, Isra F. Sianipar

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Women’s Sartorial Freedom and Educational Rights in Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf Shelina Janmohamed 的《头巾之恋》中的女性服饰自由与教育权利

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2997

Raihan Rosman

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Fayeza Hasanat (Trans), The Voices of War Heroines: Sexual Violence, Testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War Fayeza Hasanat (Trans), The Voices of War Heroines：性暴力、证词和孟加拉国解放战争

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3006

Sabiha Huq

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The Poetry of Abdul Hai 阿卜杜勒-海的诗歌

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3011

Abdul Hai

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Precarious Migrancy, Community, and Resilience in Debendranath Acharya’s Jangam 德本德拉纳特-阿查里亚的《扬格姆》中岌岌可危的移民、社区和复原力

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2998

Binayak Roy

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Dalit Women as Outsider Within: A Standpoint Exploration 作为局外人的达利特妇女：立场探索

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3003

Talat, Sukhdev Singh

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Writing in the Time of Mass Murder 大屠杀时期的写作

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2993

Md. Mahmudul Hasan

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