This article discusses contemporary performance and installation artists who address the objectification of the non-white bodies in Western culture: Coco Fusco…
Biography Born in France of parents from Corsica, Octave Mannoni (1899-1989) belonged to a small group of critics who managed…
Biography Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan’s leading diasporic writer. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience…
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Biography Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 in Mumbai and is of Parsi descent. He earned a B. A. in…
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