Project MUSE®: ariel: A Review of International English Literature - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in ariel: A Review of International English Literature.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: ariel: A Review of International English LiteratureTWOProject MUSE®ariel: A Review of International English Literature1920-12220004-1327Latest articles in ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Speculating Dalit History in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989317
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Do you want a puppet-show in place of all this meandering prose? Do you rue the fact that modernism and postmodernism have killed our storytelling traditions? I am willing to try everything to get this story across. So, here I am, pitching a tent under a tree, propping up a blank screen, pulling out my puppets.In the opening chapter of The Gypsy Goddess (2014), Dalit author Meena Kandasamy performs the difficult task of narrating Dalit history.1 The Gypsy Goddess centres on the events of 25 December 1968, when forty-two Dalit labourers from the village of Kilvenmani in Tamil Nadu were brutally murdered by upper-caste landlords. In "Notes on Storytelling," Kandasamy flits between different forms and genres, abandons
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallSpeculating Dalit History in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess2026-05-05text/htmlen-USSpeculating Dalit History in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®899722026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05From Periplum to Map: Claude McKay's Postwar Odyssey in Home to Harlem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989318
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In his 1937 memoir A Long Way from Home, Jamaican-born poet and novelist Claude McKay recounts 1922, that fateful year which, according to Michael North, "has been taken as signifying a definitive break in literary history" (3). In the world of poetry, this break was accomplished by the release of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, while James Joyce's Ulysses did much the same in the world of fiction. Upon Ulysses' publication, McKay immediately recognized something new was afoot:
I cannot imagine any modern and earnest student of literary artistry of that period who did not consider it necessary to study James Joyce. I was privileged to have a few acquaintances of radical sympathies among the moderns, and they all
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallFrom Periplum to Map: Claude McKay's Postwar Odyssey in Home to Harlem2026-05-05text/htmlen-USFrom Periplum to Map: Claude McKay's Postwar Odyssey in Home to Harlem2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®782352026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Against Pluralism: Rethinking Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989319
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Sentenced to fourteen years in prison, Imran Jabbari—the narrator of Anees Salim's Vanity Bagh (2013)—reads blank pages from the books he binds in the prison book room. The account that emerges from Jabbari's "reading" is rich in ethnographic details. We get to know the mohalla of Vanity Bagh and its dilapidated buildings, dysfunctional traffic lights, crowded streets, alleys, food stalls, and florists; the Bata store; and the lone attar shop that sits next to a homeopathic clinic. We learn of the mohalla-wallahs, or the people who inhabit the bagh, the most important being the narrator's gang, 5½ Men; the imam of the local masjid, Karim Jabbari, and his wife, Bushra Jabbari; the legendary (now retired) local don
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallAgainst Pluralism: Rethinking Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature2026-05-05text/htmlen-USAgainst Pluralism: Rethinking Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®1002862026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Decade of Optimism: Development Economics and the Postcolonial Indian Novel
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989320
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In 1979, the Swedish academy awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to the Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis, citing his "pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).1 Lewis was part—and arguably the most prominent member—of a cohort of economists who believed that the decolonising world needed its own economic models to achieve the desired economic growth and reduction in poverty. Informed by the experience of rebuilding war-damaged European economies, Lewis and fellow economists, such as W. Albert Hirschman, Gunnar Myrdal, and Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, viewed capital as the engine of growth
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallThe Decade of Optimism: Development Economics and the Postcolonial Indian Novel2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Decade of Optimism: Development Economics and the Postcolonial Indian Novel2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®1074872026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Teatime Revisited: An Interview with Shona Patel
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989321
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Colonial narratives about life on the Assam tea plantations began to emerge soon after the discovery of tea in the region and its imperial takeover in the 1830s. British writers and visitors such as Samuel Baildon, in The Tea Industry in India: A Review of Finance and Labour and a Guide for Capitalists and Assistants (1882), and George M. Barker, in A Tea Planter's Life in Assam (1884), romanticised the industry. They claimed that English money, enterprise, and energy developed the industry and brought tea to the international market (Baildon 15–16). In Tea; Its Effects, Medicinal and Moral (1839), British historian G. G. Sigmond wrote that divine providence authorised British expansion into Assam, transforming
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallTeatime Revisited: An Interview with Shona Patel2026-05-05text/htmlen-USTeatime Revisited: An Interview with Shona Patel2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®256252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Ghosts of Conflict: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka on Memory, Myth, and Political History in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989322
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Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan author born in 1975, grew up in Colombo and studied in New Zealand before living in London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. His second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022), won the Booker Prize on 17 October 2022. The novel, a work of magical realism, masterfully weaves together memory, myth, and politics to explore the complexities of Sri Lanka's past.This interview, conducted over Zoom on 22 August 2024,1 delves into Karunatilaka's motivations and how he constructs a world where life and death overlap. It examines themes of memory and trauma and connects the novel's ghostly narrative to unresolved historical issues in Sri Lanka. The novel provides a satirical commentary on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallGhosts of Conflict: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka on Memory, Myth, and Political History in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida2026-05-05text/htmlen-USGhosts of Conflict: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka on Memory, Myth, and Political History in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®532872026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Conversations with Orhan Pamuk ed. by Erdağ Göknar and Pelin Kıvrak (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989323
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It may be unorthodox to begin a book review with the concluding chapter of the book, but in Conversations with Orhan Pamuk, Erdağ Göknar and Pelin Kıvrak's editorial decision to position their interview with the Nobel-winning Turkish novelist ("An Interview about Interviews") as the epilogue of their volume of carefully selected interviews is astute. The editors set out to reassert William Hazlitt's claim that readers can learn more about authors from their interviews than from reading their books. More specifically, Göknar and Kıvrak want readers to "conceive of another Pamuk who is not only the writer but also an interpretive reader of his own books as well as a bold critic of political and social realities
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallConversations with Orhan Pamuk ed. by Erdağ Göknar and Pelin Kıvrak (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USConversations with Orhan Pamuk ed. by Erdağ Göknar and Pelin Kıvrak (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®108002026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi by Vijay Mishra (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989324
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In his significant new book, Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi, Vijay Mishra makes a case for the existence of Fiji Hindi demotic and problematizes its subaltern position in relation to European and dominant vernacular languages in the present. Fiji Hindi demotic is the language of the descendants of Indian indentured labourers who went to Fiji between 1879 and 1916. Since the Indians came from many regions in India, the language developed as a mix of Avadhi, Bhojpuri, Purbi, and Braj (all of which share the Devanagari script) with a Tamil and Telugu lilt. It survived as a spoken language, taking on the phonemic modifications of the Fijian or iTaukei people despite the missionaries' many efforts to teach them
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallSubaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi by Vijay Mishra (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USSubaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi by Vijay Mishra (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®138812026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature by Ambreen Hai (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989325
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Ambreen Hai's Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature grapples with a previously overlooked area in the context of South Asian literature: the representation of domestic servants and their labour in fiction. Hai points out how established literary forms and critical perspectives sideline the servant's story as a result of the "culture of servitude" (9) —a term she adopts from Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum's Cultures of Servitude—that is operative in the region. Hai identifies an emergent set of transnational and diasporic South Asian authors who display more sympathetic views of domestic servitude and portray fully realised servants in some of their Anglophone fiction. Hai
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/625/image/coversmallPostcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature by Ambreen Hai (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USPostcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature by Ambreen Hai (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®121312026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05