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Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee (2023)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2023). Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee. ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 54(1),

James Kim has argued that "despite long noting the links between animalisation and racialisation, critical animal studies have yet to consider their relationship to Asian American studies." Relating to this wider scholarly gap, studies of the South A... Read More about Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee.

“Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan (2022)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2022). “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan. Postcolonial Text, 17(4),

Bharati Mukherjee is principally known for her best-selling 1989 novel Jasmine. But much of Mukherjee's early work, especially her unpublished creative and academic writing from the 1960s, has been overlooked by critics and scholars. My essay address... Read More about “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan.

National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris (2016)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2016). National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris. Critique, 57(2), 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410

In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concern... Read More about National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris.

The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2015). The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction. European Journal of American Studies, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11068

Historically, the first-person plural narrator has been rare in US fiction, and it is both enigmatic and technically demanding. Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20... Read More about The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction.

"Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature (2012)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2012). "Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature. Wasafiri, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2012.636892

That parent-child relationships should play a significant role within South Asian American literature is perhaps no surprise, since this is crucial material for any writer. But the particular forms they so often take – a dysfunctional mother-daughter... Read More about "Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature.