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Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498591779
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives written by Shilpa Daithota Bhat and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Asian women’s diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places, triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of individual and group histories, personal and collective experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in various narratives? What are the themes/issues they select to portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives depicting South Asian women, their complexly positioned voices, gesturing at the proliferating challenges and reflecting the grim realities of a globalized world.

South Asian Women in the Diaspora

Author : Nirmal Puwar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018370X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Women in the Diaspora written by Nirmal Puwar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

South Asian Women’s Narratives

Author : Somjeeta Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527515303
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Women’s Narratives written by Somjeeta Pandey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection on women’s narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self’ of women. The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403055
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction by : Ruvani Ranasinha

Download or read book Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction written by Ruvani Ranasinha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.

South Asian Diaspora Narratives

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131607909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Amit Sarwal and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes, analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture'. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, 'home' remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. It argues that a clearer notion of politics of location will be required to distinguish the different kinds of 'dislocation' the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. This book fills a lacuna in the South Asian Diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies.

Bridges, Borders and Bodies

Author : Christine Vogt-William
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868434
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Bridges, Borders and Bodies written by Christine Vogt-William and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian diasporas can be considered transcultural legacies of colonialism, while constituting transcultural forms of postcolonial reality in today’s globalised world. The main focus of investigation here is South Asian women’s fiction, where diverse forms of identity negotiation undertaken by the protagonists in a number of contemporary novels (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) are read as transgressions. The themes of early gendered experiences of South Asian indentured labour migration, female genealogies and transmissions of cultural heritages down female lines, as well as negotiations of patriarchal violence, are read using a framework culled from postcolonial and feminist criticism. The literary representations of South Asian diasporic female experience in these texts are forms of commentary and critique by contemporary South Asian diasporic women writers. Hence these novels can be viewed as feminist strategies of textual creativity with distinct political aims of presenting transformative narratives addressing the tensions of diaspora and patriarchy. This book is intended to contribute to the current spectrum of academic work being done in diaspora studies, in that it brings together the concepts of diaspora, transculturality, contemporary women’s writing and transnational feminist critical approaches to bear on South Asian women’s diasporic literature. Contrary to the celebratory notion of the concept in much theory, transculturality, as represented in these texts, is fraught with ambivalence.

Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668436280
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women written by Pourya Asl, Moussa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.

Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction

Author : Sarah Knor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000824705
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction written by Sarah Knor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.

South Asian Gothic

Author : Katarzyna Ancuta
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683801X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Gothic written by Katarzyna Ancuta and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures. Gothic in South Asia can be read as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated, translated, transformed or resisted. The volume investigates South Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of the transnational category of globalgothic, contributing to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant in the culturally-diverse modern world.

South Asian Women in the Diaspora

Author : Nirmal Puwar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190277
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Women in the Diaspora written by Nirmal Puwar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

South Asian Women's Narratives

Author : Chand Murmu Bidhu Pandey Somjeeta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527515291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Women's Narratives written by Chand Murmu Bidhu Pandey Somjeeta and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection on women's narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new 'self' of women. The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

Author : D. Jean Clandinin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000638251
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Engaging in Narrative Inquiry written by D. Jean Clandinin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods. This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013, exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work. The following are new to this edition: New exemplary cases, including Menon’s autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung’s account of a study that begins with living alongside participants, and a paper from Swanson’s autobiographical narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of relational ethics in narrative inquiry that highlights links to a relational ontology An updated account of the field of narrative inquiry that highlights future directions, including the necessity of response groups, and questions of responsibility and community The increasing interest in narrative inquiry as research methodology across disciplines makes this book an essential guide and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry, education and nursing research, sociology, and all courses in autobiographical and narrative research and inquiry.

Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498577636
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing written by Shilpa Daithota Bhat and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space—defined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgia, and hyphenated identities.

Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement

Author : Suranjana Choudhury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000508897
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement written by Suranjana Choudhury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation. It maps the diverse engagements with women’s experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives, life writing and memoirs, cultural discourses, and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body, women and the national identity, violence against women in Indian Partition narratives, and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory, identity, and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind women’s displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender, migration, and marginalization. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, gender studies, conflict studies, development studies, South Asian studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies, and sociology.

Unreliable Truths

Author : Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401208980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Unreliable Truths written by Sissy Helff and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many people see ‘home’ as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ‘home’ is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women’s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora.

Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms

Author : Somak Biswas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003858597
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms written by Somak Biswas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queerness remains a central fault line in contemporary South Asia. Colonial-era ‘anti-sodomy’ laws, codified in Article 377 of the penal codes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Article 365 in Sri Lanka, exemplify the shared imperial lineages of the region as also their long postcolonial afterlives. Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. New media technologies have increasingly connected diasporic space with mainland South Asia, globalising queer networks. Yet, these trajectories are necessarily discontinuous. In the last two decades whilst there has been an explosion of LGBTQ+ visibility most notably in South Asian film, television and new media, this visibility has come with mainstream ideological agendas which do not especially represent the diversity of queer lives in South Asia along key identities of caste, class, religion and region. This book seeks to encourage critical thinking by suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this volume take up these questions and offer critical imaginings of sexual politics and its imbrication with popular culture and authoritarian politics within contemporary South Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Fashioning Diaspora

Author : Vanita Reddy
Publisher : American Literatures Initiative
ISBN 13 : 9781439911549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Diaspora written by Vanita Reddy and published by American Literatures Initiative. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shape South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s to the late-2000s. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature, visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, as well as objects of popular culture including an Indian American fashion doll, and beauty and adornment practices, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues instead that beauty and fashion structure South Asian Americans’ uneven access to social mobility, capital, and citizenship, and demonstrates their varying capacities to produce social attachments across national, class, racial, gender, and generational divides.