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• 1,April 15, 2017 •
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Tags: Africa, African American themes, African-American, Afrofuturism, ethnic mixes, fiction, multilingual, Sci-Fi, science fiction, speculative fiction
• 1,June 3, 2015 •
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Tags: Aldous Huxley, apocalypse, Brave New World, dystopia, genocides, George Orwell, Hunger Games, literary genre, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Nineteen Eighty-Four, political power, science fiction, Suzanne Collins, totalitarianisms
• 1,June 3, 2015 •
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Tags: African writers, Ben Okri, black writers, colonialism, freedom of thought, great literature, literature, mental freedom, poverty, racial injustice, slavery
• 1,August 6, 2014 •
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Tags: Anna Karenina, bibliomania, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Deronda, Flaubert, Half of a yellow sun, Madame Bovary, pathological readers, reading addiction, reading habits, summer reading, Tolstoy, War and Peace, Zadie Smith
• 1,April 29, 2014 •
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Tags: Carlos Fuentes, Charles Dickens, fantasy, Gabriel García Márquez, Ian McEwan, Latin America, Latin-American writers, literature’s fictional microcosms, Macondo, magic, Magic Realism, One hundred years of solitude, R.K. Narayan, Roberto Bolaño, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner
• 1,May 2, 2012 •
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Tags: books, Caribbean, Colombian novelist, fiction, Gabriel García Márquez, Latin America, latin american literature, literature, Magic Realism, novel, novelist, One hundred years of solitude, postmodernism, Third World Consciousness, Third World literature
• 1,May 25, 2011 •
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Tags: books, contemporary novel, contemporary writing, epic and novel, literature, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, modern fiction, novel, novelist, novelistic method, representation, Virginia Woolf, world literature
• 1,May 14, 2011 •
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Tags: 21st-century fiction, Andrea Levy, Angry Young Man, Arifa Akbar, British literary fiction, Charlotte Brontë, culture, Doris Lessing, Emily Dickinson, Emma Donoghue, F word, feminism, feminist polemics, fiction, gender, Gertrude Stein, Granta, Jeanette Winterson, Joyce Carol Oates, Kate Mosse, literary feminism, literary movement, literature, Manju Kapur, Margaret Drabble, novelist, Orange Prize, power, sexual politics, Sofi Oksanen, storytelling, Taiye Selasi, The Golden Notebook, Virgina Woolf, women writers, Women's Movement
• 1,April 17, 2011 •
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Tags: Amitav Ghosh, books, colonialism, cultural identity, decolonisation, Doris Lessing, fiction, gender/sexual politics, globalisation, hybridity, Ian McDonald, immigration, imperialism, issues of migration, literature, new wave of science fiction, Peter Carey, postcolonial literature, postcolonial world, postcolonial writers, postmodernism, racism, Salman Rushdie, Sam Watson, social anomie, Tom Sykes
• 1,February 20, 2011 •
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Tags: books, Cairo, fiction, Hisham Matar, Libya, novelist, opinion, people, writing 2011, writing and revolution
• 1,February 9, 2011 •
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Tags: book review, book reviews, books, education, female writers, fiction, gender bias, literary glass ceiling, news, opinion, review, reviews, Vida, women'sliterary organization