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by Francesca Orsini (Volume Editor), Laetitia Zecchini (Volume Editor)
Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores what location means, as context, standpoint, position, orientation, and a (necessarily partial and particular) perspective from which writers and texts represent and imagine their worlds.
Author Biography
Francesca Orsini, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor emerita of Hindi and South Asian literature at SOAS, University of London. Her latest monograph is East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (2023). She is an editor of the Journal of World Literature and of the Cambridge Studies in World Literature.
Laetitia Zecchini, Ph.D. (2007), is Director of Research at the CNRS, and writes on contemporary Indian poetry, postcolonial modernisms and print cultures, and literary activism. Her latest book is a co-edited volume The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures (2022).
