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From Impasse to Operative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2019
Abstract
Aarthi Vadde is an associate professor of English at Duke University. She is author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016, which was the winner of the 2018 Harry Levin Prize awarded by the ACLA. She is at work on a second monograph tentatively titled The Amateur Spirit: Contemporary Literature in the Sharing Economy and is co-editing a collection entitled The Critic as Amateur.
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- Book Forum on Aarthi Vadde’s Chimeras of Form
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- Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 133 - 139
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- © Cambridge University Press 2019
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