WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

[ad_1] “Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one. It included both teaching … Read more

Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

[ad_1] Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short story collection Heart Lamp is littered with a gamut of affecting objects and people: callous husbands, self-serving mutawallis, loving children, and women of all stripes. These women are, by turns, sexy, demanding, abstruse, and suffering. Kate McLoughlin notes in the Times Literary Supplement: “here are wicked in-laws, bedazzled … Read more