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Othappu

Author : Sār̲ā Jōsaph
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othappu written by Sār̲ā Jōsaph and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a trilogy of novels-the other two being Aalahayude Pennmakkal (1999) which won a Central Sahitya Akademi Award, and Maatathi (2001)-Othappu is set in the Kerala Christian community, which splits broadly into Roman Catholics, Syrian Christians, and Charismatics who emphasize free worship and faith-healing. l Othappu (2003), the winner of two State-level awards, raises important issues revolving around a self-consciously religious society: the role of piety, spirituality, family, sexuality, and the freedom of the individual or the lack of it. Peppered and layered with Biblical quotations and allusions, and carrying echoes and subtexts that parallel events in the New Testament, the novel gives us rare glimpses of Malayali Christian society. Literally meaning outrage or scandal directly linked with breaking sexual codes of behavior, Othappu is a crucial text chiefly because the socio-psychological implications of convent-life, and its contradictions and conflicts, have rarely been discussed in Indian fiction; nor has female subjectivity in the Malayali Christian culturescape been made available in English before. As Sara Joseph tunnels into the lives of her characters, the conclusion shows people up for who they really are, and what they are prepared to bear, in support of their actions. Othappu (2003), the winner of two State-level awards, raises important issues revolving around a self-consciously religious society: the role of piety, spirituality, family, sexuality, and the freedom of the individual or the lack of it. Peppered and layered with Biblical quotations and allusions, and carrying echoes and subtexts that parallel events in the New Testament, the novel gives us rare glimpses of Malayali Christian society. Literally meaning outrage or scandal directly linked with breaking sexual codes of behavior, Othappu is a crucial text chiefly because the socio-psychological implications of convent-life, and its contradictions and conflicts, have rarely been discussed in Indian fiction; nor has female subjectivity in the Malayali Christian culturescape been made available in English before. As Sara Joseph tunnels into the lives of her characters, the conclusion shows people up for who they really are, and what they are prepared to bear, in support of their actions. The current edition includes an insightful introduction by Jancy James, a discussion of the many meanings of Othappu by Paul Zacharia and an interview with the author. The novel will appeal to students and scholars of Indian literature in general and Malayalam literature in particular, comparative literature, gender studies, cultural studies, as well as general readers.

Budhini

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780670093830
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Budhini written by Sarah Joseph and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 December 1959, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to Dhanbad district in Jharkhand to inaugurate the Panchet Dam across the Damodar river. A fifteen-year-old girl, Budhini, chosen by the Damodar Valley Corporation welcomed him with a garland and placed a tikka on his forehead. When these ceremonial gestures were interpreted as an act of matrimony, the fifteen-year-old was ostracized by her village and let go from her job as a construction worker, citing violation of Santal traditions. Budhini was outlawed for 'marrying outside her community'. Budhini Mejhan's is the tale of an uprooted life, told here through the contemporary lens of Rupi Murmu, a young journalist distantly related to her and determined to excavate her story. In this reimagined history, Sarah Joseph evokes Budhini with vigour, authority and panache, conjuring up a robust and endearing feminine character and reminding us of the lives and stories that should never be forgotten. Translated by her daughter, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, a fiercely individualistic novelist herself, Sarah Joseph's Budhini powerfully invokes the wider bio-politics of our relentless modernization and the dangers of being indifferent to ecological realities.

The Bible and Asia

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726464
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Bible and Asia written by R. S. Sugirtharajah and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible's influence on the West has received much more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah's expansive study of Asia's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible tells of missionaries, imperialists, and reformers who molded Biblical texts in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.

Blame it on the WTO?

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199565899
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Blame it on the WTO? written by Sarah Joseph and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WTO is often accused of not paying enough attention to human rights. This book weighs these criticisms and examines their validity, both from a legal and from political and economic points of views. It asks whether the WTO is under an obligation to construct a fairer trade system and discusses suggestions for reform.

The Vigil

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 935029818X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Vigil written by Sarah Joseph and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of Valmiki's poem about the epic battle between Raman and his nemesis, Ravanan, tend to focus on the glory and virtues of the hero. But in the Malayalam modern classic Oorukaaval - translated here as The Vigil - Sarah Joseph tells a turbulent tale: that of Angadan, who believes that Raman killed his father Vali against all principles of dharma. Unlike the celebrated central characters who are blind to or choose to ignore that which is inconvenient, Angadan is acutely aware of the silent sufferings of the weak and disempowered. Over and over, the tormented young vanara prince sees Raman act against justice and fair play, not the least of which is his consent to Sita's fire ordeal. Ultimately, though, it is the person most wronged by Raman - Sita - who provides him redemption from his searing quest for revenge. In The Vigil, the familiar rhythm of the original poem is stirred up by Angadan's ascetic touch. Sarah Joseph provides a new spin to the grand old story, bringing in contemporary concerns such as the environment, peace and women's empowerment, and provides a new path, a fresh way of understanding it.

The Masculine of 'Virgin'

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 0198088299
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Masculine of 'Virgin' written by Sarah Joseph and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together twenty-one short stories by Sarah Joseph representing the major themes and issues that define her writing. Written over a period of almost four decades, these stories highlight her mastery of social and political themes, and trace her artistic growth and emergence as one of India's foremost feminist writers.

Translating Poetic Discourse

Author : Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027279748
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Translating Poetic Discourse written by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women’s studies on theoretical and practical levels. It proposes key-elements to be integrated into the problem of interpretation of contemporary poetry by women, and discusses the links between gender markers and the speech situation in feminist discourse as a systematic problem. This book will be of interest to scholars of Translation Studies, Women’s Studies, Poetry, Comparative Literature and Discourse.

Gift In Green

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350292645
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Gift In Green written by Sarah Joseph and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eco-spiritual search for light and life in a world inching towards dystopia Gift in Green, written originally in Malayalam, is a tantalizingly unconventional narrative that explores, on multiple levels, the pain and poetry that eventuate from the disruption of the intimate relationship between a people and their life-world, using water (the 'water-life' of the people of Aathi) as the overarching metaphor that mirrors the degradation of the society. Between the polarities of attachment and abandonment, darkness and light, predatory progress and the sheer will to survive, unfolds the saga of a people confronted by the behemoth of progress driven by Kumaran,who seeks to abandon water-life, threatening its very existence. But such is the author's faith in the resilience of life and nature and her belief in the futility of trying to control something as fluid and eternal as water-life that what promises to be the end is also the hope of a new beginning. This is the first instance in Indian literary history of a novel in a regional language being translated and published concurrently in English.

Sachiko

Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552106
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Sachiko written by Shūsaku Endō and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki—where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution—and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō’s compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.

The Island Of Lost Girls

Author : Manjula Padmanabhan
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9350096498
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Island Of Lost Girls written by Manjula Padmanabhan and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Meiji ? the only girl who has remained untouched and unmutilated in a country that has savaged its entire female population. Having saved her from certain death in the new Dark Age that has come upon the world, her gaurdian, Youngest, has transported her to the only place where she can remain safe ? an Island where wounded girls are, sometimes literally, stitched back together and given a new life. But the Island itself is a menacing place, and Meiji may be in more danger than ever before. To see what has become of his beloved girl, Youngest must find a way to infiltrate its odd environs while keeping the constantly assaulting voice in his head at bay. His struggles against the surreal inhabitants of a world gone wrong and with his own transformed identity only serve to steel his efforts to find the girl, and escape once more... The Island of Lost Girls showcases, yet again, Manjula Padmanabhan?s genius at creating searing landscapes and alternate, sometimes brutal, worlds while reaffirming the beauty and the ugliness, the cruelty and the tremendous compassion that essentially make us human. '

Under the Bhasha Gaze

Author : P. P. Raveendran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192871552
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Under the Bhasha Gaze written by P. P. Raveendran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Indian literature offers a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. It discusses the complex ways in which the bhasha imagination, even as it reshaped the history of colonial modernity, simultaneously allowed itself to be shaped by it in turn.

Bhaskara Patellar and Other Stories

Author : Sakkar̲iya
Publisher : Manas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Bhaskara Patellar and Other Stories written by Sakkar̲iya and published by Manas. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hangwoman

Author : K R Meera
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187268
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hangwoman written by K R Meera and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grddha Mullick family bursts with marvellous tales of hangmen and hangings in which they figure as eyewitnesses to the momentous events that have shaped the history of the subcontinent. When twenty-two-year-old Chetna Grddha Mullick is appointed the first woman executioner in India, assistant and successor to her father, her life explodes under the harsh lights of television cameras. When the day of the execution arrives, will she bring herself to take a life? Meera’s spectacular imagination turns the story of Chetna’s life into an epic and perverse coming-of-age tale. The lurid pleasures of voyeurism and the punishing ironies of violence are kept in agile balance as the drama hurtles to its inevitable climax.

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice

Author : R. Sreejith Varma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000886174
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice written by R. Sreejith Varma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates 11 contemporary environmental justice narratives from Kerala, the south-western state in India. Introducing a detailed review of environmental literature in Malayalam, the selected eco-narratives are presented through two key literary genres: life narratives and novels, conveying the socio-environmental pressures, problems, and anxieties of modern, globalising Kerala. This text also entails primary investigations of ‘toxic fictions’ and ‘extractivist fictions,’ including Malayalam novels that narrate the disastrous consequences of the permeation of toxic pollutants in human and ecosystemic bodies, and novels that chronicle the impact of exploitative mining activities on the environment. All eco-narratives analysed in the book exhibit the familiar pattern of the Global South environmental narratives, namely, a close imbrication of the ecological and social spheres. Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice argues that these selected eco-texts offer inspiring scenarios where the subaltern people show thantedam, or courage, to claim thante idam, one’s own space in society and on the Earth. This volume will be essential for those looking to expand their understanding of environmental justice and the harmful effects of development and modernisation.

Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond

Author : Gideon Toury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027221456
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond written by Gideon Toury and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, having immediate consequences for issues of both a theoretical and applied nature. Methodological discussions are complemented by an assortment of case studies of various scopes and levels, with emphasis on the need to contextualize whatever one sets out to focus on.Part One deals with the position of descriptive studies within TS and justifies the author's choice to devote a whole book to the subject. Part Two gives a detailed rationale for descriptive studies in translation and serves as a framework for the case studies comprising Part Three. Concrete descriptive issues are here tackled within ever growing contexts of a higher level: texts and modes of translational behaviour in the appropriate cultural setup; textual components in texts, and through these texts, in cultural constellations. Part Four asks the question: What is knowledge accumulated through descriptive studies performed within one and the same framework likely to yield in terms of theory and practice?This is an excellent book for higher-level translation courses.

Manjaveyil Maranangal

Author : Benyamin
Publisher : D C Books
ISBN 13 : 8126438150
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Manjaveyil Maranangal written by Benyamin and published by D C Books. This book was released on 2011-08-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking East to Look West

Author : Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9814279048
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Looking East to Look West written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh launched India's "Look East" policy, it was only the first stage of the strategy to foster economic and security cooperation with the United States. But "Looking East" became an end in itself, and Singapore a valid destination, largely because of Lee Kuan Yew. He had been trying since the 1950s to persuade India's leaders that China would steal a march on them if they neglected domestic reform and ignored a region that India had influenced profoundly in ancient times. With his deep understanding of Indian life, close ties with India's leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru on, and sound grasp of realpolitik, Lee never tired of stressing that Asia would be "submerged" if India did not "emerge." Looking East to Look West recounts how India and Singapore rediscovered long-forgotten ties in the endeavour to create a new Asia. Singapore sponsored India's membership of regional institutions. India and Singapore broke diplomatic convention with unprecedented economic and defence agreements that are set to transform boundaries of trade and cooperation. This book traces the process from the earliest mention of Suvarnadbhumi in the Ramayana to Lee Kuan Yew's letter to Lal Bahadur Shastri within moments of declaring independence on 9 August 1965, from the Tata's pioneering industrial training venture in Singapore to Singapore's Information Technology Park in Bangalore. It explains the part Lee played in India's emergence as a player in the emerging Concert of Asia. History comes alive in these pages as Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, who had eight long conversations with Lee Kuan Yew, tells the story in the words of the main actors and with a wealth of anecdotes and personal details not available to many chroniclers.