Cooper, Darius. Aavaan Javaan: Arriving at and Departing from. Authorspress, 2018

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Published: Jul 14, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5744/jgps.2020.1017
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Aavaan Javaan Darius Cooper

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Mitali P. Wong
Claflin University

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Review of: Cooper, Darius. Aavaan Javaan: Arriving at and Departing from. Authorspress, 2018. Reviewed by Mitali P. Wong.

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020)
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Book Review
Author Biography

Mitali P. Wong, Claflin University

Mitali P. Wong is professor and chair of the English Department at Claflin University. She received her PhD in English from the University of Manitoba in Canada. She received the James E. Hunter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001, and the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015. She served as project director for a National Endowment for Humanities grant, served as co-investigator for US federal government funded projects with universities in India, and received smaller grants including UNCF Mellon grants. She is the author of The English Language Poetry of South Asians (2013), Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays (2006). She is the first author of The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean (2004). She is the senior editor of The Changing World of Contemporary South Asian Poetry in English: A Collection of Critical Essays (2019), and second author of Sri Lankans’ Views on English in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Eras (2020).She has also published articles on Canadian poet Robert Kroestch, Christopher Marlowe, Bengali films, Bharati Mukherjee, Chinese writer Zhang Jie, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and race relations in the poems of contemporary South Asian American women poets.