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East Indian, West Indian: Colored Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and the Dual Autobiography of Cedric Dover and Claude McKay

Nico Slate
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2920042
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nico Slate Abstract Published in June 1951 under the title East Indian, West Indian , the hybrid autobiography of the Jamaican poet Claude McKay and the Calcutta-born Eurasian scholar Cedric Dover aimed to provide, in Dover’s words, “a practical expression of coloured unity.” Dover attempted...
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Jefferson and the Language of the American Indian

Mabel Morris
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 31–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-6-1-31
Published: 01 March 1945
...Mabel Morris Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 JEFFERSON AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN By MABELMORRIS Jefferson confesses to a vital interest in the language of the Amer- ican Indian. Evidence from...
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Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence

Shamoon Zamir
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 419–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-61-2-419
Published: 01 June 2000
...Shamoon Zamir Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence . By Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ix + 239 pp. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-05Reviews.ak 5/26/00 5:16 PM Page 415...
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Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement

Ambreen Hai
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 121–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892762
Published: 01 March 2013
... of postcolonial memoir. She is working on a book about domestic servitude in contemporary postcolonial and transnational literatures, with a focus on South Asia. Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement . By Johnson Alan . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press...
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The Oriental Tale and the Transformation of North Indian Prose Fiction

Maryam Wasif Khan
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 27–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3699769
Published: 01 March 2017
...Maryam Wasif Khan Abstract The eighteenth-century English Oriental tale has in recent scholarship been read as both productive and dissident. But the legacies of this literary genre in the Indian colony and its role in the formation of a world literature remain mostly unstudied. The formation...
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An Indian It-Narrative and the Problem of Circulation: Reconsidering a Useful Concept for Literary Study

James Mulholland
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 373–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7103396
Published: 01 December 2018
... the “actual and imagined limits of circulation.” My example is Helenus Scott’s ( 1782 ) Adventures of a Rupee , a novel that provides a first-person account of the creation and movement of an Indian coin. The form of Scott’s novel and its representation of this movement portray a model of circulation...
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Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country

KARL KROEBER
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 197–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-2-197
Published: 01 June 1978
... Coyote IVas Going There: Indian Literature oj the Oregon Country. Com- piled and edited by JAROLD KAMSEY.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1977. xxxvii -I- 295 pp. $14.95. An unusual feature of this collection of 116 traditional American Indian stories from Oregori...
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“Indians” And Irish: Montaigne, Swift, and the Cannibal Question

Claude Rawson
Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (3): 299–363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-53-3-299
Published: 01 September 1992
...Claude Rawson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 “INDIANS” AND IRISH: MONTAIGNE, SWIFT, AND THE CANNIBAL QUESTION CLAUDE RAWSON UNSPEAKllVG THE UNSPEAKABLE Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1.xxxi) is one of his most...
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The Casteized Consciousness: Literary Realism and the Politics of Particularism

Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 329–349.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1631424
Published: 01 September 2012
...Toral Jatin Gajarawala A product of the last two decades, Dalit (“untouchable caste”) literature in Hindi has fashioned itself as a modern protest literature, drawing on the cultural and political traditions of other Indian languages and literatures. But Hindi Dalit literature is unique in that its...
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Delusions and Discoveries: Studies on India in the British Imagination, 1880–1930

George Woodcock
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 111–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-34-1-111
Published: 01 March 1973
... said some- thing very similar in one of his fugitive journalistic pieces-that there was a certain fatal appropriateness about the connection between the British and the Indians, since they shared the distinction of being the world’s most con- summate hypocrites. He might have added...
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Love, Sex, and History in The Raj Quartet

Allen Boyer
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 64–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-46-1-64
Published: 01 March 1985
... who represent different points of view: the Indian Army, the Indian Civil Service, the Hindu aristocracy, the Congress Party, and nationalist militants. The memoirs of General A. V. Reid, which tell part of the story, are so detailed as to specify the roles of the fifty-odd men (including...
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Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

René Johannes Kooiker
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 127–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8742534
Published: 01 March 2021
...René Johannes Kooiker [email protected] Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . ix + 320 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 West Indian literature...
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A Forgotten Noble Savage, Tsonnonthouan

James R. Foster
Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 348–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-14-4-348
Published: 01 December 1953
... akin to Candide and the Shandys, is droll and pleasant, and its wit, although sometimes coarse, can still be appreciated. Its typically neo- classical satire is cast in the mold of the romantic primitivistic narra- tive. In no other English novel of the century do the Indian and his customs...
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“The End. Yours Truly, Huck Finn” Postscript

Roy Harvey Pearce
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 253–256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-24-3-253
Published: 01 September 1963
.... The Territory is, of course, the Indian Territory, which was to become Oklahoma. Froin the 1820’s on, it had been organized and developed as a region to which the Indians could be safely removed away from civilized society, since their lands were needed for higher purposes than those to which...
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Theme and Structure in Asturias' Hombres de Maiz

G. M. Martin
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 582–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-30-4-582
Published: 01 December 1969
... novela. No hay conflictos que queden por resolver. No hay desarrollo de acci6n.a The verdict would carry more weight if Menton had not limited Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 4th ed. (Mexico, 1964), 11, 226. s“The Indian-Oriented Novel in Latin America: New Spirit...
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Italian Opera in Early National Mexico

Nancy Vogeley
Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 279–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-57-2-279
Published: 01 June 1996
... in the northern borderlands, in the belief that the Indian race and its way of life were “barbaric,” they appropriated Indian lands and sold them to white colonists from the United States, England, Italy, Ger- Nancy Vogeley is professor of Spanish at the University of San Fran- cisco. She...
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Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic

Ross Hamilton
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 115–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892744
Published: 01 March 2013
...: prosody.lib.virginia.edu. doi 10.1215/00267929-1892753­ Out of Bounds: Anglo-­Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. By Alan Johnson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. x + 316 pp. Alan Johnson’s main intervention in Out of Bounds is to complicate the cat- egory of the British...
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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism

Herbert F. Tucker
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 118–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892753
Published: 01 March 2013
..., offers an interactive scansion tutorial to all comers: prosody.lib.virginia.edu. doi 10.1215/00267929-1892753­ Out of Bounds: Anglo-­Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. By Alan Johnson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. x + 316 pp. Alan Johnson’s main intervention...
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Self-Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature

Jesse Matz
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 126–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892771
Published: 01 March 2013
...-­Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. By Alan Johnson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. x + 316 pp. Alan Johnson’s main intervention in Out of Bounds is to complicate the cat- egory of the British colonizer in India by positing key differences between the writing...
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Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism

Brian Lennon
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 129–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892780
Published: 01 March 2013
..., offers an interactive scansion tutorial to all comers: prosody.lib.virginia.edu. doi 10.1215/00267929-1892753­ Out of Bounds: Anglo-­Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. By Alan Johnson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. x + 316 pp. Alan Johnson’s main intervention...
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