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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Cultural Narratives Hybridity and Other Spaces is a collection of essays which concern themselves with the dialogic relations between narrative and space As they move from traditional folk and community narratives into hybrid spaces and urban locations the relationship between the two  narrative and space  reflects a spatial history of the telling of the tale Spatial concepts such as the personal and the political are in themselves abstractions concretely experienced and expressed only by a living agent The contestation between the two is of long standing with the interconnections becoming visible only in recent yearsCommunity narratives throw up the reality of spatial divisions and bring alive relationships which are fast disappearing in an urban world These narratives are vibrant and keep alive values of human sympathy compassion and understanding while urban narratives become fragmented temporary fluid and are compartmentalised through technology and the fluidity of spacesCreative writers and critics together explore these overlappings as they work with experiences and histories across time and cultures and invite the reader to participate in the opening out of these spatial metaphors in the contexts of both postmodern and postcolonial constructs 240 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents 1 IntroductionJasbir Jain 2 AmmiSaeed Akhtar MIrza 3 Language culture Bombay cinema reflections on Cinematic representations of MuslimsAnisur Rahman 4 Qawwali a mode of representation of Muslim culture in BollywoodRashmi Attri 5 Performance politics and piety of Sufi MusicMadhuri Chatterjee 6 The star the role and the spectator Shahrukh Khans recalcitrant Muslim identityGita Viswanath 7 Absent fathers abandoned sons in the divided family Hindu Muslim relations in Hindi FilmsSantosh Gupta 8 Art and power dynamics Mirza Ghalib and Shatranj ke KhiladiJasbir Jain  9 Muslims and the freedom struggle mobility in captivity in Junoon and PinjarCharu Mathur 10 Celebrating the courtesan in Hindi films Umrao Jaan and PakeezahBandana Chakrabarty 11 Women at crossroads Bazaar and NikaahS Asha 12 Personal narratives socio historical reflections in Zubeidaa and MammoMini Nanda 13 Hybridity and the filmic text re visiting Chaudhvin ka ChandAmeena Kazi Ansari 14 The question of legacy in MuhafizUrmil Talwar 15 Conflicting claims on culture train to PakistanIndubala Singh 16 Music as form of cultural representation with special reference to Sardari BegumDivya Walia 17 Perspectives on language culture and identity a study of Umrao JaanSamina Khan Index Cinema is a fairly accurate reflector of the political trends and of presence in public spaces that affect personal lives It captures the changing graph of social space as well as that of individual anxiety Muslim Culture in Indian Cinema brings together in depth explorations of the various facets of Muslim life and culture as they are woven into collective histories The volume takes into its range more than sixty years of cinematic presentation moves into past histories through films like Mughal e Azam and Shatranj ke Khiladi analyses personal relationships and seeks to deconstruct and consider larger issues such as language music and poetry The excerpts from Saeed Mirzas Ammi touch upon several sensitive and significant issues while Anisur Rahman presents a perceptive overview of the intricacies of cultural representation Qawallis sufi philosophy language partition divided families courtesans and Muslim personal law are some of the issues that are explored through cinematic representations nudging our memories as a reminder of our collective heritage Together the essays open out multifarious dimensions for further exploration both for the expert and the novice jacket 230 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The history of the Partition is neither singular nor static. It appears different from different perspectives. The past is never over, its presence looms large over our presents. The Partition narrative exceeds the bounds of history, to the large scale exodus often referred to as the third partitionmost painful and long-lasting in its emotional, political and social contexts. It impacted both collective and individual identities. In some ways it rendered the individual invisible with identity being transformed into a stereotype which evoked conventional patterns of behaviour. The heartache and anguish of divided families and frustrated, failed individual lives lay heavy on the joy of a much coveted freedom. Oral histories break the hegemony of the written. Fictional narratives offering psychological insights and a history of relationships move beyond facts to cultural constructs, the psychology of fear, and the uncertainty and bewilderment of the moment. They enter individual psyches to explore morality and ethics, guilt and regret. This collection seeks to debate issues and throw light on discourses other than those of violence and darkness, working with a chronology, located in time. The narratives unfold expectation, hope and harmony, flight and violence, psychological fallouts, gender issues and questions of guilt and reflection. As the stories trace the shifts in emotions and focus on individual wills, the undercurrents of cultural oneness form a counter discourse. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Shared Inheritance:1. The One, the one, the ones: Advaita and Select South Asian Poetics/Mashrur Shahid Hossain. 2. South Asian Politics and Tibetan Buddhism: Changing Perceptions and Global Ramifications/Neekee Chaturvedi. 3. Bulleh Shah and Kabir: Sufi and Bhakti Movements in Socio-Historical Contexts/Krishna Gopal Sharma. 4. The Outsider s Eye: The Travelogues of Pietro Della Valle and Mountstuart Elphinstone/Abhimanyu Singh Arha. 5. Politics of the Rhetoric of Nation(s) before the Midnight Hour, August 1947/Ameena Kazi Ansari II. Histories of Resistance and Reconciliation: 6. The Dialectics of History: Narratives of the Subcontinent s Participation in the Empire s Wars/Jasbir Jain. 7. Competing Narratives of Partition: Voices from India and Pakistan/Sangeeta Sharma. 8. Socio-Political Subversion in the Tribal Narratives of North-East India and North-West Pakistan/Chandra Mohan. 9. Language of Resistance in Mujibur Rahman s: The Unfinished Memoirs and Benazir Bhutto s Daughter of the East/Urmil Talwar. 10. Myths of Redemption Across Faith and Culture: Sri Lanka and Pakistan/S. Asha. 11. Rewriting the Nation: Drama in India and Pakistan/Manorama Trikha. 12. The Hopes, the Aspirations, the Guilt Embedded in Our Shaken Lives Romesh Gunesekera s Noontide Toll/Senath Walter Perera. III. The Gendered Voice: 13. Religion, Ritual, Identity: Treatment of Gender Conflict in South Asian Fiction/E.V. Ramakrishnan. 14. Resistance and Resilience in the Novels of South Asian Women Writers/Devika Khanna Narula. 15. Re-Contextualizing Self and Language: Women Poets of South Asia/Rachel Bari. 16. Exploring Multiple Realities of South-Asian Life through Cinema: With Special Focus on Gender/Tutun Mukherjee. 17. The Confines of Creativity in the Subcontinent: Religion, Culture and Respectability/Bandana Chakrabarty. Culture, History and Politics: South Asian Narratives is a collection of essays which explore the region s shared pasts, formulative histories and its plural culture. Despite the distinctiveness of each people and nation, the spilling over of religions and languages across political borders weaves a complex web of commonalities. The contributors to this volume have discussed issues such as aesthetics, the coming into being of new faiths, encounters with outsiders as the people have journeyed through conflicts of various kinds and the need and impact of philosophies such as Sufism. Contemporary socio-political concerns also claim attention as the writers explore histories of conflict wars both global and local and processes of recovery and rehabilitation. Gender issues are another area which open discourses of social oppression, art forms, creativity and cultural differences. As the writers engage with them, they bring to the discussion their own experiences, memories and perspectives. The persistence of old hostilities, the almost invisible shifts of power, the changing social and artistic concerns all find a place in these discussions, opening out new areas of insight and understanding. The present volume s special significance lies in the comparative perspective that these eminent scholars from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India engage with. The essays, both individually and collectively, are a valuable contribution to South Asian Studies, an area whose strategic importance has long been on the political map. As such the book will be of great interest and use to research scholars and academicians of Comparative Literature, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 2nd Edition. Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema explores both mainstream and parallel cinema for an analysis of the woman image, the idea of romance, the imposition and defiance of patriarchal order and a woman s journey towards self-definition. Films reach a wider audience than literature as they move across the barriers of class, literacy, religion and even language. Not only do they reflect reality, they also construct reality. Their reach and impact makes it imperative to work through the rhetoric and melodrama of the medium to unearth the subtleties and ambiguities which lie within. This second edition, with a new introduction attempts to capture the shifts that have taken place since its earlier publication. With four new essays supplementing the earlier twenty four, the shifts in film techniques and film audiences, the blurring of the line between alternative and commercial cinema and women s image of themselves are brought out. Largely focusing on Hindi cinema, there is also a reflection of Bengali and Kannada cinema. This new edition enlarges the scope of the inquiry into feminist concerns and feminine representation. The volume makes a significant contribution to film, gender and literary studies as it opens up multiple dimensions of inquiry. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 3rd Edition. This volume brings together thirty-four essays on women s writing. They focus on the validity of women s writing and trace its contribution to the construction of a female self. Marginalised as trivial, ghettoised as militant and subversive, opposed to the universal and downgraded as concerned with the victim syndrome, women s writing has finally found a place for itself as voicing the experience of half of humanity. The Text of the title works at several levels. There is first of all the literary text: fiction, novel, drama, theory, poetry and autobiography. There is the socio-cultural text which moves into the traditional context. There is then the bodily and physical awareness of participation in the making of this text as a reader. Contexts again are multiple: epistemological, patriarchal, legal and social. The essays in this volume concern themselves with theoretical issues and historical perspectives, with spatial metaphors and discourse analysis, with cultural constructs and linguistic textures, with myth and mythologising and history and dehistoricising. Rebellion, defiance, madness, fantasy, and comedy are some of the strategies used by women writers to communicate and get their meaning across. The work is of value not only to the young scholar and the fresh initiate, but it is also of equal significance to serious scholars of literature and history and of socio-cultural studies. New to this third edition is the revised and updated introduction and three new essays expanding the horizon of this text.

Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. 2007. First Edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated card boards have a creased spine. Wrapper shelf worn. A nice clean copy.