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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 2–33.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Yasmine Gooneratne Sourh Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 1 (Spring 1992). The English-Educated in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of Their Cultural Role Yasmine Gooneratne In 1947, the year before Sri Lanka (then still remedy, the dangers of a system of education which Ceylon...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 355–371.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and the problems of translation facing Muslims in colonial courts. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Translating Colonial Fortunes: Dilemmas of Inheritance in Muslim and English Laws across a Nineteenth-­Century Diaspora Michael Gilsenan Diasporic Inheritance across Colonial Spaces...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 163–180.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Will the Real Almásy Please Stand Up! Transporting Central European Orientalism via The English Patient EUGENE SENSENIG-DABBOUS Locating Austrian Orientalist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (2): 48–53.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Alamgir Hashmi Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 References Azam , Ikram . The Gossip Gulley: A Novel . Lahore, 1987 . Burchfield , Robert W. Ed. Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary , 4 vols. Oxford, 1972–86 . Daniel , Samuel . Poems and a Defence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 259–268.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English narratives dealing with conversion to Islam are of interest in this regard: the immoral deviant “renegade” motivated by excessive lust...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., enumerated, and rendered exchangeable by the new novel form in the serialized English press of the mercantilist era. In Capital , Vol. 1, in the chapter “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” Marx represents Robinson not as a well-armed slave trader, but rather as endowed with only a watch...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 December 2023
... with the Dhufar Revolution (1965–76), which was crushed by a British-led colonial war that the shah of Iran and his forces supported. Using Persian, Arabic, and English sources, the author shows how a radical internationalism was forged through regional networks, a praxis of guerrilla warfare, and a common...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 188–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Mary E. John This essay engages with the text The Birth of Chinese Feminism, which centers primarily on the writings of He-Yin Zhen, one of the earliest Chinese feminists, produced at the turn of the twentieth century and translated into English for the first time. He-Yin offered China...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 134–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Darbari , Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August , Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger , and Moshin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia all link soiling substances with larger critiques of rural life. These critiques echo, but do not always neatly overlap with, the discourses of actual rural people...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 435–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of challenging the imperial hegemony of the English language. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Iran India Persian nationalism Islam Zoroastrianism This article was presented at the “After the Persianate: Cultural Heritage and National Transformation in Modern Iran and India” conference...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Wandana Sonalkar Sonalkar's piece is a tribute to the late poet Tulsi Parab and serves as an introduction to the English translations of four of Parab's poems. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tulsi Parab poetry Marathi Bombay leftist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 622–638.
Published: 01 December 2015
... contemporary Palestinian universe of discourse has led to meanings that we today associate with the (ongoing) Palestinian catastrophe. Although the notion of 1948-as-catastrophe is as old as the nakbah, the event as catastrophe and its atrocities only entered the English-language intellectual register...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 41–53.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... However, while English lit- writing. This has largely taken two forms. In the first erature’s homonymic conflation of writing in English instance there have been several explicit attempts to use and writing by the English allows it to be defined in a postcolonial terminology to explain the prevalent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 128–140.
Published: 01 August 2003
... the writing of litera- me, located as I am, to ask whether the seamless singu- tures in the colonizers’ language and the teaching of larity of an “English” literature is adequate to study the those literatures in institutions of the once colonized. I varieties of English available across the globe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 276–278.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., comparison demonstrates and materi- in nineteenth-­century Europe. Consider, for ex- alizes the tendency (of the English and of the law) ample, that in the field of statistics several interna- to unity. tional congresses were held between 1853 and 1876 As to local differences, they are recognized...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 641–646.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of English at the Univer- sity of Leeds. The department prides itself on being the first institution in the United Kingdom to begin teaching, in the 1960s, what was then called “Commonwealth literature.”1 This phrase has now been replaced by the term postcolonial, in keeping with changing trends...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 91–95.
Published: 01 May 2006
... mparative Stu my confi dence with English. But I found her much more in control. Her language is lyrical, evocative, hypnotizing. I like the patience with which she described her childhood. As reader, I was transported to remote places in the Middle East and Africa. In On Borrowed Words, ideas...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 May 2006
... that a Diaspora Jew makes to Israel, than about succession from Spanish and English and immersion into Hebrew. Eventually, being a Diaspora Jew, I realized that I am not meant to be in Israel. So I left and returned to Mexico and moved north and created in the memoir a parallel dies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... The writers involved in these debates about language were multilingual, that is, they could read, write, and think in languages other than their own, including English. They represented themselves nevertheless as speakers of one language. Hence, their multilingualism heightens rather than attenuates...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 May 2008
... comshe Congo, the of Republic Democratic the of native A University. Creighton at English Ngwarsungu...