Meena Alexander (Nampally Road, Fault Lines, River and Bridge, The Shock of Arrival, Manhattan Music) Anjana Appachana (Incantations and Other Stories, Listening Now) Shauna Singh Bauldwin…
Brief History of Indian Cinema India was first exposed to motion pictures when the Lumiere Brothers’ Chinematographe showed six soundless…
Introduction Unlike the United States, China regards its cinema as a high art rather than a form of entertainment. According…
A critic of the way sinologists, Orientalists, and Western intellectuals have traditionally approached China and the “East,” Rey Chow refuses…
As far as I am concerned, I no longer support notions of purity. Purity has become a thing of the…
Biography The highly acclaimed director and producer from India, Mira Nair leapt into the world’s spotlight with her film Salaam, Bombay!…
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“From the start I tried to deny my Pakistani self . . . it was a curse and I wanted to…
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Biography Born 9 January 1929, Catholic, in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel is one of Ireland’s most…
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Biography Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969. Her father immigrated to the United States just 2 years later…
Biography In 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, in the town of Mutoko. She spent her early childhood,…