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by Maryse Jayasuriya


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  About the Author

  Maryse Jayasuriya is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published essays on South Asian literature in the South Asian Review, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, and the edited collection South Asia and Its Others: Reading the “Exotic.” She is an executive board member of the South Asian Literary Association and editor of the South Asian Literary Association Newsletter. Her PhD in postcolonial literature and theory is from Purdue University, and she is also a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College.

 

 

 


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