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This dissertation focuses on contemporary Chinese historical fiction, which became one of the most prominent literary phenomena in the 1980s and 1990s, but which has not yet been systematically surveyed in English language scholarship. This study investigates how writers of Deng…

This study examines the trauma of the partition in Indian fictions, mainly of the last two decades. Until recently this trauma was thought to derive almost exclusively from the enormous violence provoked by the partition of 1947. This study argues that the political division is …

Writing Revolution: Women Writers and Fictions of Nationalism focuses on the works of four female artists, exploring how each author deals with the contingencies of “feminism” and nationalism in her own geo-political locale. It argues that Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young …

Monstrous Fictions of the Human considers the body as a site of decision between human and monster. Fictions of making and unmaking bodies deemed human or otherwise reveal the tenuous nature of distinctions upon which these definitions are constructed. Such fictions insist on th…