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Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Written after the great war of Kurukshetra, Shanti Parva, the twelfth book of the Mahabharata, is a treatise on peace, the ideals of statehood and peaceful governance, which also simultaneously justifies upper-caste hegemony, hierarchy and the need for organised violence. Des Raj Kali's Shanti Parav, in contrast, brilliantly parodies the 'peace' claims of its source text and provides a radical Dalit response from the margins of history to these justifications of the ruling elitethrough gentle interrogation, subversive literary technique and fragments of alternate history. A post-Independence novel set in the heartland of Punjab, Shanti Parav invites a study of post-colonial socio-political dynamics in India from a Punjabi Dalit perspective. It locates the Dalit within the castereligionpower nexus, and furnishes alternate narratives of the freedom struggle, terrorism, state violence, development, capitalism and democracy. The proletarian context of Shanti Parav is harsh and stark, but also colourful, irreverent, carnivalesque, even absurd. Boldly experimental, the novel has a dual narrative which playfully challenges the reader to acquire new ways of reading and interpreting a text. The 'fictional' text in the upper half of the page narrates autobiographical stories that recount the struggles and joys of the protagonist's immediate, everyday subaltern world, while in the lower half run 'realistic', quirky, grand historical monologues by three retired Dalit characters who offer philosophical discourses on governance, violence and peace. A compelling read, Kali powerfully documents alternate lived realities in India. …

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 302 Seiten Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 610. …

Zustand: New. pp. 282.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. First Edition, First Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. 302 p. Very good condition. Reading pages are clean and without markings. Slight signs of storage and use. Spine edge slightly bumped. Otherwise a decent copy. 9780070511545 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 788.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Type: Book Small plain label inside cover.Loss to base of d/j spine and rubbing bumping slight loss to base of spine., contents unaffected.

Hardcover. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: New.