Volume 32, Number 3, September 2025. Special Issue: The Language Challenge

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Special Issue: The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia, edited by Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow

The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia
Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow

The Imagist Ghazal: Urdu Modernism and Japan
Jennifer Dubrow

Hindi After Urdu: North Indian Modernisms and the Multiple Poetics of Fragmentation
Gregory Goulding

Modernism at the Conjunctures: Marathi Multilingualisms in the 1979 Special Issue of Rucā
Anjali Nerlekar

How Absurdism Became a Postcolonial Aesthetic: A Drama in Three Scenes
Toral Jatin Gajarawala

“The strange fragrance of rice”: Crisis Modernism in the Colony and the Bengal Famine
Supurna Dasgupta

The Peripheral Process (Sīmāntak Prakrīyā): Rajkamal Chaudhary’s Magadha Modernism
Rahul Parson

Sound Effect: The Poetics of Spoken Language in Tamil New Poetry
Preetha Mani

Afterword: Rising to the Challenge
Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Review Essay

Sarah-Neel Smith
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey
Edward Mitchell

Book Reviews

Jensen Suther
True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.
Robert S. Lehman

Richard Müller, ed.
The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and Mediality
Dominika Bugno-Narecka

Aaron Rosenberg
Scale, Crisis and the Modern Novel: Extreme Measures
Scarlett Croft

Aria Fani
Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Nicole Ferreira

Joseph R. Millichap
These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks
Shannon Egan

Kelly M. Rich
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair
J. Dillon Brown