Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction write by Sarah Knor. This book was released on 2022-12-30. Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Frontiers of South Asian Culture
Frontiers of South Asian Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontiers of South Asian Culture write by Parichay Patra. This book was released on 2023-09-22. Frontiers of South Asian Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes the boundaries of scholarship further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism. It opens itself up for many cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary, theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prisms of literature and cinema and traces the many modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation.
Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing
Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing write by Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez. This book was released on 2023-12-15. Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s (2000) investigation of "stranger fetishism" and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of "stranger". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, "strange(r)ness" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies.
Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean
Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean write by Elena Igartuburu García. This book was released on 2024-02-12. Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries.
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities write by Aroosa Kanwal. This book was released on 2024-01-31. Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure. Most importantly, the book emphasizes the continued relevance of creative literature’s potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination. The book makes a substantial theoretical contribution by drawing on wide-ranging angles and dimensions of contemporary drone warfare and its related catastrophes, postcolonial ethics in relation to the thanatopolitics of slow violence, dehumanization and the politics of death. Against the backdrop of such institutionalized and diverse acts of violence committed against Muslim communities, I call the postcolonial Muslim world ‘geographies of dehumanization’. The book investigates how ongoing legacies of contemporary forms of injustice and denial of subjecthood are represented, staged and challenged in a range of postcolonial anglophone Muslim texts, thereby questioning the idea of postcolonial ethics. One of the selling points of this book is the chapters on fictional representations by Muslim Myanmar and Uyghur writers as, to the best of my knowledge, no critical work or single authored book is available on Myanmar and Uyghur literature to date.
