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“samrita sengupta sinha”

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  • Female Narratives of Protest

    Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

    Edited by Nabanita Sengupta, Samrita Sengupta Sinha ...
    This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.The book traces the origins, varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women’s protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together narratives ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Edited by Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Read more

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  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India

    Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP

    by Lars Tore Flåten ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian History
    When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and in 2002 four new history textbooks were published.This book examines the new ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    by Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature

    Disrupting the Discourse

    Edited by Alka Kurian, Sonora Jha ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across ... Read more

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  • Emerging South Asian Women Writers

    Essays and Interviews

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Deborah Fillerup Weagel ...
    Series Book 1 - From Antiquity to Modernity
    This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by scholars from India – in particular, those whose voices do not necessarily find themselves in western academic publications.Many ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Unveiling Desire

    Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

    by Devaleena Das, Colette Morrow, Firdous Azim, Paramita Halder, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, Amrit Gangar, Naina Dey, Louis Betty0, Lavinia Benedetti1, Tomoko Kuribayashi2, Meenakshi Malhotra3, Chandrani Biswas4, Radha Chakravarty5, Feroza Jussawalla6, Kuhu Sharma Chanana7 ...
    In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Vernacular English

    Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

    by Akshya Saxena ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this ... Read more

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  • Young Sikhs in a Global World

    Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities

    by Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold ...
    In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD