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Joseph Anton: memórias

by Siqueira, Jose Rubens, Garschagen, Donaldson M., Rushdie, Salman

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On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "a…

JOGINDER PAUL: a writer beyond definitions

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"This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer's oeuvre - a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal remini…

Joginder Paul: the writerly writer

by Pāl, Jogindar

fromWriter in context

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"This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer's oeuvre - a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal remini…

Joginder Paul: the writerly writer

by Pāl, Jogindar

fromWriter in context

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"This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer's oeuvre - a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal remini…

'The taking place of language': contemporanizing the debate about representation …

by Som, Bipasha, Das, Saswat S.

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This book seeks to critically engage with issues arising out of, and hotly debated within, Indian writing in English and its †̃otherâ€TM: Bhasa writing. The central issue is the representation of nation in literary texts, which has divided these two literary traditions. At the …

Amitav Ghosh

by Mondal, Anshuman A., (Anshuman Ahmed), Manchester University Press

fromContemporary world writers

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Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available…

The tunnel of time: an autobiography

by Laxman, R. K., (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy)

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Autobiography of an eminent Indian cartoonist.

Bread, cement, cactus: a memoir of belonging and dislocation

by Zaidi, Annie

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In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her anc…

Bread, cement, cactus: a memoir of belonging and dislocation

by Zaidi, Annie

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"In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her an…

Bread, cement, cactus: a memoir of belonging and dislocation

by Zaidi, Annie

0 Type: Book

"In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her an…