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...Mir Hekmatullah Sadat © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Afghan Experience Reflected in Modern Afghan Fiction (1900  –  1992) Mir Hekmatullah Sadat espite the growing body of research on the sociopolitical realities of Afghanistan, little attention has...

...Arati Rao Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). (Re)Writing Women’s Wor(1)ds: Fact And Fiction Arati Rao Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels: A Selection dispossessed, and devalued sections of society, is its...

... and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Gamal al-Ghitani . Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press , 2004 . Said Edward . The World, the Text, and the Critic . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1983 . Sarıtoprak Zeki . Islam’s Jesus...

...Dan Ojwang East African Indian fiction, or rather fiction by East African writers of South Asian origin, presents memorable images of ceaseless wandering through strange territory, flight from home-spaces, violent expulsions, and the networks—imaginative and literal—that link the resultant diaspora...

...Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 Andrade Susan Z. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 272 pp. , $89.95 ( cloth ); $24.95 ( paper ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

... designated as Reserve Forests. But that is a legal fiction. A large number of families—cultivators and others—have settled in these areas. These settlements are especially ripe for contestation because of the difference between the land laws that prevail in the old settled districts of colonial Assam (i.e...

...ADRIAN OTOIU Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 An Exercise in Fictional Liminality: the Postcolonial, the Postcommunist, and Romania’s Threshold Generation ADRIAN OTOIU Five Questions and a Realization the scope of this “anthropogenetic...

... regime. Through examining the ways in which the Constitution operates as a fetish that doubly posits a fiction of race war as an alibi for its own lawlessness, and a fiction of world-historical lawlessness as an alibi for empire, Du Bois punctures a doctrine of race that phantasmagorically distorts human...

... Press 2021 India Covid-19 pandemic fiction medical humanities Ramesh placed his hand on the glass scanner at the hospital staff entrance. It felt waxy and slick; maybe someone had puris for breakfast earlier. He swallowed, hungry, and his shoulders tightened in habitual anxiety...

... the story of the “99” superheroes unfolds, namely the burning of Dar al-Hikma and the great library of Baghdad by the Mongols in AD 1258. While looking at the character of the superheroes, their backgrounds, and the obstacles they face, this article studies the relevance of these fictional and historical...

... between forms of life and modes of thought. The “thought” under consideration is distinctive for its commitment to remaking political and ethical life, and attention to the fugitive or unruly forms by which insurgent thought is transmitted, e.g., through poetry, fiction, and autobiography in addition...

.... However, the performative act of cultural identification has been more successful than the building of a national Palestinian state. Photography as well as cinema—fiction and documentary—has succeeded in establishing a recognizable cultural identity of the Palestinian people, while other discourses...

... a unique political arrangement (“two kings”) was expressed by courtiers, chroniclers, and poets in the language of a stylized fiction of love. The article tries to make meaning of the “two kings” problem by looking at a set of textual and visual materials and situates them within a context of “multilayered...

.... In the late Ottoman context, the novel was articulated in terms of conceptual separations (primarily as truth/imitation–fiction/creation, which then develops into nature-beauty and romance-realism binaries). Such conceptual divides inform both the history and the theory of the novel by Ottoman intellectuals...

... and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work of anthropologist Noelie Vialles, Woods’s article argues that the relocation of part of the work of raising and rendering sheep...

...Neville Hoad This essay analyzes Lauren Beukes's 2010 novel, Zoo City , as a complicated set of allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and contemporary African identity. It argues that Zoo City , as a speculative fiction of sorts, is deeply informed by South African...

...Roanne L. Kantor Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag...

... burdened by its historicist fictions and unable to keep its object in sight as it morphs into ever more complex developments in international politics. As Lalu argues, in Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy Grovogui does more than simply record the birth of a discipline or merely provide reasons for its...

... fghanistani women, because of sociopolitical and cultural conditions, turned to modern narrative literature late in comparison with their male colleagues. Fiction writing, which had previously been the preserve of men...

... s the novelistic adaptation of an Indic- Javanese legend, Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Arok Dedes is a work of historical fiction poised at the vortex of two distinct literary move- ments, both encompassing the peripheries of the Indian Ocean though historically emerging centuries apart...