Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, French philosopher, critic, linguist and semiotician, had a profound influence on twentieth-century literary theory. His best-known works include Mythologies (1957), S/Z (1970), Pleasure of the Text (1973), A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977), Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography (1980) and the posthumously printed Incidents, published in English

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Homi K. Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

Shanta Gokhale

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Kalpana Sharma

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Shashank Kela worked as an activist in a trade union of Adivasi peasants in western Madhya Pradesh between 1994 and 2004. A Rouge and Peasant Slave is his first book.

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Jarek Kupsc

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Shailaja Kalelkar Parikh

Shailaja Kalelkar Parikh, a writer and former journalist, was also a lecturer in political science.

Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

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