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This volume is the latest English language translation of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s story about Kankabati, a little girl in nineteenth-century Bengal’s Kusumghati. It is textured with annotations, and with graphics that accompanied the original edition. Publicized originally as a modern fairy tale, this story tells of Kankabati’s dreams of a series of adventures in bizarre places and situations. She visits an underwater kingdom of fishes; ...
Salman Rushdie is in many ways one of the most complex and challenging of living writers today. Engaging constantly with questions of identity, selfhood, mongrelization and hybridity not only through his writings, but also through the dramatic events of his life. This book attempts to reltate Rushdie’s fiction to larger theoretical questions of identity and self-construction in a post-colonial world. It also attempts to refute charges of reactionary nihilism ...
Marxist ideology and ethnic identities are usually counterpoised in the mainstream literature. No where has the mutual dynamics and interactions between these two forces been more profound and innovative than in the Soviet Central Asia. This book offers a lucid explanation of this volatile and little understood phenomenon. Dueling Isms concerns the events of Post-Soviet Central Asia and on the inter-ethnic relations in the Eurasian region, where initially after ...