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...Ilan Stavans Duke University Press 2006 On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Ilan Stavans y memoir covers the span in my life from birth until I received my American pass- port.1 But in terms of time, chronological time, it covers far more perhaps, two cen...

...Serdar Poyraz Duke University Press 2006 Thinking about Turkish Modernization: Cemil Meriç on Turkish Language, Culture, and Intellectuals Serdar Poyraz...

... set of literary dynamics and shifts comes into view. The prevalent image of Awadh as identified with Urdu and Lucknow is not wrong, of course, but it does obscure the other stories, trajectories, and languages. This essay considers some of them. A multilingual and prospective approach helps us...

...Monica Katiboğlu Abstract As an innovative literary movement marked by intensified transaction with European languages and literatures, Edebiyat-ı Cedide (“New Literature,” 1896–1901) has been conceptualized in terms of European influence. Yet paradigms of influence neglect to account for the ways...

...Yigal Bronner A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars REVIEW ESSAY Yigal Bronner begin...

...Lawrence McCrea Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 review essay In the World of Men and beyond It Thoughts on Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men Lawrence McCrea t is a rarity...

... : K. P. Bagchi , 1984 . Cohn Bernard S. “ The Command of Language and the Language of Command .” In Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India , 16 – 56 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1996 . ———. “ Law and the Colonial State in India...

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...Xavier Garnier According to Garnier, neither the sociohistorical grounding of postcolonial studies nor the more explicitly linguistic and cultural one of francophone studies helps direct a satisfactory critical reading of literature in African languages. The ambition of this essay is to show...

... and—in a departure from Soviet models of socialist realim—to revisit the novel’s passage to literary self-consciousness, a passage that underscores the historical contingency of sacralized languages of prestige. In addition to suggesting the historical telos of literary progress, Pramoedya’s novel exemplifies how...

.... WORDS THAT WORLD Provincializing Concepts The Language of Transnational History Margrit Pernau istory writing in recent years has adopted an increasingly transnational, if not global, perspec- tive. A comparative view of different regions, which have long been studied...

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... Deccani Urdu was a feminine language before this reform, as argued by some literary historians of the Deccan. It then asks whether Mah Laqa Bai had a feminist agenda as a women poet of the eighteenth century, as charged by some feminist scholars of the Deccan. The essay concludes that Mah Laqa Bai's...

...Sravanthi Kollu Abstract The multilingual turn in literary studies emphasizes the fairly recent emergence of a monolingual attachment to language. While this rightly calls into question the academic focus on monolingual competencies and offers a substantial area of inquiry for scholars working...

... The Case of the Animals versus Man from tenth-century Iraq. The same human-animal divide is shown to be maintained variously among European philosophers. McGregor argues that both modern and medieval formulations are organized around a series of assumptions about language, the self, and the religious other...

...Kunal Chattopadhyay Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages Harder Hans , ed. New Delhi : Social Science Press , 2010 . xii + 387 pp. , $64.99 ( cloth ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

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