A weblog by Jonathan Ali
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Friday, December 27, 2002 'What a relief to read criticism of South Asian fiction that is immune to "the desperate grasping for authenticity that produces . . . the mistress of spices, the heat and dust, the sweating men and women in lisping saris, brought together in arranged marriages, yes . . . and the whole hullabaloo in the guava orchard."' - The Village Voice verdict on Professor Amitava Kumar's new collection of essays, Bombay-London-New York. The review also opines that '(Kumar's) subjects—Arundhati Roy, V.S. Naipaul, and Hanif Kureishi, among others—would surely agree.' My memory is a bit faulty - weren't there a whole heap of spices and fruits in God of Small Things? posted by Jonathan | 9:31 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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