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Ruth Maxey

Ruth Maxey is currently completing a doctorate in South Asian diaspora writing at University College, London. She has recently published “ ‘The East is Where Things Begin’: Writing the Ancestral Homeland in Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston,” Orbis Literarum 60.1 (Feb. 2005): 1-15.