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...ceremonies, arranged marriages and zany in-laws: in short, deploying the stalest, most predictable tropes in the Orientalist handbook. Book reviewers stateside pat themselves on the back for compassing “world literature”; arts supplements splash their fronts with selections of the month like Anita Desai??s “Fasting, Feasting” or Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger.” Enthusiastic reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than...
...professors stressed the importance of implementing an ethnic studies curriculum in a discussion at Sever Hall yesterday evening. Seventeen students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai??a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which...
...intensely personal.” About 20 students attended the talk, asking the authors for advice on how to become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai??s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri’s novel...
Ross, visibly moved by Desai??s statements, added earnestly, “If one landshark makes it to the top of the crowd it is not only an inspiration for everyone in attendance, but it sets forth a challenge for another, ‘larger’ shark to make an appearance. Sometimes it turns into a contest of bravado...
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