Looking Beyond (and Before) Ancient Ballads : Toru Dutt's Sheaf and the Force of Abolition Time.
How are Victorianists negotiating the almost dizzying challenges posed by Victorian studies' increasingly explicit status as a convergence point—or flashpoint—for emerging, often expressly racialized transnational and transimperial histories? Taking Indo-Anglian poet and translator Toru Dutt's trans...
| Published in: | Victorian Studies Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 268 - 278 |
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Winter2019
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