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On Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory And Liberated Futures In Black Women’S Fiction, Aisha Matthews Oct 2026

On Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory And Liberated Futures In Black Women’S Fiction, Aisha Matthews

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Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction by Cassandra L. Jones. Ohio State University Press, 2024. $29.95 paperback


Beast And Man In India: Undoing John Lockwood Kipling’S Imperial Citation, Oishani Sengupta Jun 2023

Beast And Man In India: Undoing John Lockwood Kipling’S Imperial Citation, Oishani Sengupta

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This article posits that John Lockwood Kipling’s Beast and Man in India (1891), the illustrated compendium on animals that mixes discussions of colonial cross-species entanglements with personal reflections on transforming local arts and crafts in India in the service of imperial power, is a multiauthored book. Centering the presence of Indian illustrators as central to Beast and Man’s texture, this essay uses the term “imperial citation” to highlight the range of strategies Kipling uses to overtly and covertly appropriate the labor of Indigenous creators within the fabric of this volume. By placing the material text within the context of colonial …


Comparative Literary History, Michael J. Griffin Ii Apr 2017

Comparative Literary History, Michael J. Griffin Ii

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Review of Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel by David James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 223. $95.00 cloth.