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SOUTH ASIAN REVIEW Volume 35, Number 2
October 2014
Table of Contents EDITOR’S COLUMN
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ESSAYS I.) the female body, trauma, hysteria, and history as carnival Signifying Corporeal-Trauma in Anita Desai’s Fictions BHAWANA JAIN
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Carnivalizing Hysteria in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers JENNIFER RANDALL
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II.) immigrant women, identity crisis, and self-negotiation Exploring Alternativism: South Asian Muslim Women’s English Fiction ASMA MANSOOR
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Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat: Becoming American, but “not yet” DALIA GOMAA
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“Third World Woman,” Family, and Marriage: South Asian Diasporic Fiction as a Site for Consolidation of the American Nation-state ROKSANA BADRUDDOJA
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III.) the text, the author, and the uncommon reader The Politics of Cultural Identity in Mulk Raj Anand’s The Bubble K. D. VERMA
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Building a Story: The Architecture of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things SHAIMA RIZVI
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Imperialism, Exile and Ethics: Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke BINAYAK ROY
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Submerged Idealism in V. S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds: An Ambivalent Evolution? ABDOLLAH ZAHIRI
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IV.) entertainment in pre- to post-colonial history From Tawaif to Nautch Girl: the Transition of the Lucknow Courtesan VIJAY PRAKASH SINGH
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Laughter and Liberalization: Cultural Economy of TV Humor in India AKSHAYA KUMAR
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V.) French translations and the colonial presence The Twice Borne Fiction: French Translations of Indian English Literature ASHWINEE PENDHARKAR
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BOOK REVIEWS Assa Doron and Robin Jeffery. The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life. REVIEWED BY JESSICA CHANDRAS
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Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt. The Postcolonial Citizen: The Intellectual Migrant. REVIEWED BY CRISTINA M. GÁMEZ-FERNÁNDEZ
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Durgabati Ghose. The Westward Traveller. Translated and introduced by Somdatta Mandal. REVIEWED BY KARNI BHATI
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Neamat Imam. Black Coat. REVIEWED BY YASMIN SAIKIA
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Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films, edited by Swaralipi Nandi and Esha Chatterjee. REVIEWED BY AMBER FATIMA RIAZ
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Rajini Srikanth. Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. REVIEWED BY PARMITA KAPADIA