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“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2022

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Auritro Majumder*
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University of Houston Email: amajumder@uh.edu
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amajumde@central.uh.edu
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Abstract

Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association.

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world literatureglobal Anglophoneglobal southlanguagepolitics
Type
Book Forum on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 424 - 430
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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