"Envisioning the Real: Two Mishras on a Girmit World"

John O'Carroll

"Envisioning the Real: Two Mishras on a Girmit World"

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Abstract

This essay explores the work of two of Fiji's foremost critics, Vijay Mishra and Sudesh Mishra, and does so in terms of their engagement with the issues of girmit and migration. The creative art of Sudesh Mishra is also explored in order to propose a synthesis of sorts of experience and of engagement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	101-126
Number of pages	26
Journal	SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
Issue number	52
Publication status	Published - 2002

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"Envisioning the Real: Two Mishras on a Girmit World"

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