Some thoughts on the writing of Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra

Some thoughts on the writing of Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra

I came to  this book very much towards the end of my academic career. For many years, I  had written on  the Indian diaspora with, where possible, an emphasis on the old sugar plantation diaspora that began with the movement of coolies to work as indentured labourers in the nineteenth...
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Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-first Century by Brenda Ayres

Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-first Century by Brenda Ayres

In 2017, I wrote Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, identifying the disparities between 18 major biographies that reinvented Mary Wollstonecraft with each retelling of her life. In that book, I alluded to 16 other biographies as well with their diverging views on Wollstonecraft. To date, there are...
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