To read Mahapatra’s stories is to experience defamiliarisation, which occurs when the literary language disrupts habitual perception by making the ordinary appear extraordinary and the extraordinary disturbingly ordinary.
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If an English person were asked where our Midwest was, they’d know the person who asked was probably American.
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If you have ever bought a transit ticket in a European city, you know the particular humiliation of it.
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If my protagonists sued me for emotional distress, at least I’d know I let them feel the full range of human messiness instead of wrapping them in narrative bubble wrap.
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