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Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7539-5
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
The Map of My Village
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Published:April 2015
A brief essay that takes a line from a poem by the Hindi writer Alokdhanwa to present in the portrait of a bathroom the reality of the inequality of nations. Alokdhanwa’s line is juxtaposed here with a line by John Cheever about bathrooms—the essay finding meaning, literary and otherwise, in squalid places.
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