A Market for Speech: Poetry in Late Mughal India
Review of A Market for Speech: Poetry Recitation in Late Mughal India, 1690-1810, by Nathan Tabor. Something strange happened to…
Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tosun, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko
A review of Beyond Shasei, Beyond Nature: Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tōson, Doi Bansui, and Yosano…
Intersections of Latin American and South Asian Literature in the Twentieth Century
A review of Cartographies of Engagement: The Parallels and Intersections of Latin American and South Asian Literature in the Twentieth…
The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature
A review of The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature, by Kathryn Hemmann The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature,…
Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution
A review of The Phenomenology of “Zeitgeist”: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution, by Pu Wang. When I began studying…
“Queuetopia”: Modernity and Standing in Lines in the Second World
A review of Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, by Andrew H. Chapman. This dissertation traces the…
Reading Museums as Literature
Language Games: Literature as a Tool for Museum Analysis Three months into the first year of my thesis, which looked…
The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
A review of The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India, by Pasha Mohamad Khan. One gloomy and…
A Book of Wisdom for Persian Kings & Courtly Elites
A review of The Medieval Reception of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma: The Ardashīr Cycle as a Mirror for Princes, by Nasrin Askari. Nasrin Askari…
“Objective Authorship” in 20th-Century Russian Writing and Photography
A review of Objective Authorship: Photography and Writing in Russia, 1905-1975, by Katherine Hill Reischl. Katherine Hill Reischl’s Objective Authorship:…