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Northness and the Global South: Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways 北方和全球南方:Sunjeev Sahota的逃亡之年

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0012

P. Murthy

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Postcolonialism, the Anthropocene, and New Nonhuman Theory: A Postanthropocentric Reading of Robinson Crusoe 后殖民主义、人类世与新的非人类理论:《鲁滨逊漂流记》的后人类中心解读

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0010

S. Moslund

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Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia (review) 《印度移民与帝国:现代国家的殖民谱系》作者:拉迪卡·蒙吉亚

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0018

A. Hazra

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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee by Ruth Maxey (review) 《理解巴拉蒂·慕克吉》作者:Ruth Maxey

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0016

Tathagata Som

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Contributors 贡献者

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0019

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Purchasing Power, Stolen Power, and the Limits of Capitalist Form: Dalit Capitalists and the Caste Question in the Indian Anglophone Novel 购买力、被窃取的权力和资本主义形式的极限:印度英语小说中的达利特资本家和种姓问题

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0002

Akshya Saxena

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Where Old Birds Go to Die: Spaces of Precarity in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 老鸟去哪里死:阿兰达蒂·罗伊的《最大幸福部》中的不稳定空间

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0003

R. Rajan

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Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas by Scott Henkel (review) 《直接民主:集体权力、群体与美洲文学》作者:斯科特·汉高

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0006

Michael Truscello

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V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming at the BBC: Reconsidering the Windrush Generation's Political Art V. S.奈保尔和乔治·兰明在BBC:重新考虑风刮一代的政治艺术

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0005

A. Fabrizio

引用次数: 1

Umpire, Empire: Kamau Brathwaite, Athletic Education, and the Literature of Self-Rule 裁判，帝国：布拉斯维特、体育教育和自治文学

IF 0.3 2区文学

ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2021.0004

Miles Osgood

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