Ageing subjects, agentic bodies: Appetite, modernity and the middle class in two Indian short stories in English

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-89

  Raja, Ira ^a  

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EID: 34347304517     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021989405050666     Document Type: Article

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