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  • Transcultural Humanities in South Asia

    Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

    Edited by Waseem Anwar, Nosheen Yousaf ...
    This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores various complex critical dimensions of transculturation, its indeterminate periodisation, its temporal and spatial nonlinearity, its territoriality and intersectionality.Drawing on contributors from around the ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Religion: The Basics

    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Global Intellectual History

    Edited by Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

    Freedom in a Fishbowl

    by Ratna Kapur ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
    'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    by Nayanika Mookherjee ...
    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $45.99 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

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  • Transformations of the Liminal Self

    Configurations of Home and Identity for Muslim Characters in British Postcolonial Fiction

    by Alaa Alghamdi ...
    The concept of home has been changing for more than a century. This change began with colonialism and the movement of people across the globe, often within a set power dynamic. Since people now move with greater frequency, the question of where home is and what home means is more relevant than ever before. Meticulously researched, Transformations of the Liminal Self addresses the formation of home ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Self-Expression

    The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

    by Markus Daechsel ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Secularism and Religion-Making

    by Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair ...
    Series series AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
    This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Liberation And Purity

    Race, Religious Movements And The Ethics Of Postmodernity

    by Chetan Bhatt University of Southampton., Chetan Bhatt ...
    An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity. It explains the relationship to political developments in the Third World. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD