House/daughter/nation: Interiority, architecture, and historical imagination in Janaki Majumdar's "Family History"

Journal of Asian Studies

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 921-946

  Burton, Antoinette ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038932935     PISSN: 00219118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2658294     Document Type: Review

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