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Off-Shore Aesthetics and Waste in the Ship-Breaking Literature of Bangladesh 孟加拉破船文学中的海上美学与浪费

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-11-16 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2145745

Sritama Chatterjee

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Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting Trauma 冲突地区青年赋权的教育策略:转变而非传播创伤

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-10-29 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2137082

Nidhi Shrivastava

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Woman-Speak: Ventriloquizing Femininity in the Poetry of Radharani Devi 女人说话:罗陀拉尼·德维诗歌中腹语化的女性气质

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2100665

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

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The Cultural Politics of Storytelling in Tree Matters (2014) by Gangu Bai 《树事》讲故事的文化政治(2014

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-08-23 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2111505

Shikha Singh

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Vernacular Modernity and Dalit Identity: A Study of the Boosa Movement in Karnataka 乡土现代性与达利特身份:卡纳塔克邦布萨运动研究

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2100664

Rupsa Banerjee

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In The Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition 《记忆的语言:分割的继承

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2095738

Y. Krishna

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Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India 后殖民地的流氓:印度的抽离与流浪

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2087767

Shwetha Chandrashekhar

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Resisting Narratives: An African Soldier in Sri Lanka’s Anticolonial Struggle 《抵抗叙事:斯里兰卡反殖民斗争中的非洲士兵》

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2072587

Melissa Schindler

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Family Fictions and World Making 《家庭小说与世界创造

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-05-11 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2070408

R. Mohite

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Nostalgia for Revolution in Calcutta: Violence and Spectrality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others 对加尔各答革命的怀念:Jhumpa Lahiri的《低地》和Neel Mukherjee的《他人的生活》中的暴力和幽灵

South Asian review Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2054248

Pallavi Sanyal

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