Contents
From the Editor's Desk
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1. (Third)worlding the House of Literature: Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe's Weltliteratur-An Early 21st Century Indian Response
Makarand Paranjape
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2. Interfaith Harmony in Balangadhar Tilak's Gita Ralwsya
R.P. Singh
20
3. Sexuality as a Romantic Desire to Find a Virgin
Text in Michele Roberts's The Wild Girl
Jayita Sengupta
27
4. How Far Radical? Middle Class Politics, Youth and Women
in the Literature of Bengal during National Liberation
Arjun Ghosh
37
5. The Students' Movement in Germany Revisited:
Literature, Politics and Society
Rekha Kamath Rajan
49
6. Representing through Iconography: The Imagery of Women
as Readers in North America and Spain (1850-1900)
Rebeca Sanmartin Bastida
61
7. The Other: Loss and Recovery through a Metaphor
Ajay Sarvaiya
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8. The Call Centre Worker as Cyber Coohib
A. Raghu
81
9. Bangladesh: A Monolingual 'Nation-State'
or a Construct of Cultural Hegemony?
Santosh K. Sareen and Sayeedur Rahman
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10. The Process of Making the Text Legible
S.A. Hasan
96
11. "Quest for an A-Gendered Space?"
An Interview with Manjula Padmanabhan
Shubhra Ray
105
12. The Love Story of Ram Sajivan
Uday Prakash
Translated by
Nandini Chandra
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13. Review: Re-mapping the English Theatrical World
Swati Pal
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