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Dodging Pitfalls in Dodgy Autorickshaws with Amitava Kumar
- ariel: A Review of International English Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 4, October 2016
- pp. 71-102
- 10.1353/ari.2016.0033
- Article
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This article analyzes the depiction of India, Bihar, and Patna in several books by novelist, poet, critic, and filmmaker Amitava Kumar. While Kumar often criticizes and ridicules other writers’ representations of India, he frequently struggles to overcome the same kinds of clichés in his own work. Nevertheless, I argue that Kumar’s texts, such as his literary memoir