Now released despite today’s difficult circumstances is Vol. 10, No 1 (2020) of the always high-quality Journal of the Odisha Association for English Studies, edited from Baleswar by Santwana Haldar.
Among the diverse subjects featured in the articles are R.K. Narayan (Anindita Das), Jayanta Mahapatra (Debabrata Das), contemporary stories by Indian women (Nadjia Boussebha and Fewzia Bedjaoui), Native Canadian writing (Mahesh Kumar Dey), W.B. Yeats (Nandakishore Mohanty), George Lamming (Chaitali Gorai), Margaret Atwood (Dayanidhi Pradan), and secondary school English textbooks in Odisha (Satyashree Mohanty). Also included are creative writing (including poems by Sudasharna Ghosh, Jaydeep Sarangi and more) and book reviews (including three by Santwana Haldar of recent works of fiction by Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and Nobel laureate Peter Handke).
The reviews also feature my own of Andrew Muir’s book of 2009, ‘The True Performong Of It : Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare’ (175-179).
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