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Kim’s Original Manuscript Contained A Cancelled Chapter Depicting A Lynching And I Cannot Stop Thinking About Why It Was Cut

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Kim’s Original Manuscript Contained A Cancelled Chapter Depicting A Lynching And I Cannot Stop Thinking About Why It Was Cut – A diary entry on archival deletion, editorial silence, and what a removed scene reveals about what an author was willing to publish

Three Different Scholars Annotated The Same Novel And Reading Them Side By Side Taught Me More Than Any Single Edition Could

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Three Different Scholars Annotated The Same Novel And Reading Them Side By Side Taught Me More Than Any Single Edition Could – A diary entry on Edward Said, Zohreh Sullivan, and Harish Trivedi each framing Kim through genuinely different lenses

The Kipling Society Built Its Own Decolonising The Curriculum Reading List And I Think That Institutional Choice Deserves Genuine Credit

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The Kipling Society Built Its Own Decolonising The Curriculum Reading List And I Think That Institutional Choice Deserves Genuine Credit – A diary entry on an organisation actively supplying ammunition against comfortable readings of its own subject

A Scholar Traced Every Hindi Urdu And Hindustani Word In Kim And I Think That Granular Approach Reveals Something Larger Studies Miss

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A Scholar Traced Every Hindi Urdu And Hindustani Word In Kim And I Think That Granular Approach Reveals Something Larger Studies Miss – A diary entry on close linguistic reading and what counting individual words can teach a critic that broad argument cannot

A Scholar Argued Postcolonialism And Anti Colonialism Are Not Actually The Same Thing And That Distinction Reorganised My Entire Reading List

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A Scholar Argued Postcolonialism And Anti Colonialism Are Not Actually The Same Thing And That Distinction Reorganised My Entire Reading List – A diary entry on a definitional argument that genuinely changes how a whole body of criticism should be approached