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Greenwood Press eBooks, 1995

Nationalities papers, May 22, 2023

Lexington Books, Jun 15, 2016

Nationalities Papers

Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of st... more Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of state borders, especially in Eastern Europe, the fluidity of the contours of nations, and the vagaries and idiosyncratic nature of political changes in the European continent from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The title of this work takes its inspiration from Zygmunt Bauman’s famous work, Liquid Modernity (2000). Bauman’s work, which was published in 2000 in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and also Yugoslavia that resulted in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, first posits the obvious – that fluids cannot hold their shape as solids do because the structural arrangements of solids, unlike liquids, bind their atoms together. Bauman characterizes solidity as having hardened contours and belonging to a pre-modernity with its unchanging or slowly changing social, political, and economic mores. Modernity, on the other hand, is likened to liquids in that, like time, there is a f...

Rowman & Littlefield International eBooks, Jun 30, 2020

This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visua... more This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of 'thinking trauma', foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible? What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing

In the heritage of imperialism, one of the peculiar by-products is the ’emancipated ’ woman in th... more In the heritage of imperialism, one of the peculiar by-products is the ’emancipated ’ woman in the decolonized nation, not her sister in metropolitan space, whom we know much better. However unwilling she may be to ac-knowledge this, part of the historical burden of that ’emancipated ’ postcolonial is to be in a situation of tu-toi-ing with the radical feminist in the metropolis.

This collection contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that explore the continuing cultural, ... more This collection contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that explore the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subject-themes as well as regions within South Asia-that illustrate Vazira Zamindar's idea of a "Long Partition."

Choice Reviews Online, 1996

... Page 10. vi Contents 7. Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figurin... more ... Page 10. vi Contents 7. Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figuring" Home,"Locating Histories Anindyo Roy 101 8. Postcolonial Spaces and Deterritorialized (Homo) Sexuality: The Films of Hanif Kureishi Radhika Mohanram 117 9. 7s My Body Proper? ...

... Some of these articles (Sumathi Ramaswamy's" Virgin Mother, Beloved... more ... Some of these articles (Sumathi Ramaswamy's" Virgin Mother, Beloved Other" and Susie Tharu's" The Impossible Subject" come to mind immediately ... Such a difference is evident in yet another article in the special issue of Thamyris, Anupama Rao's" Understanding'Sirasgaon ...

Analysis of fin-de-siecle or early 20th century gender representations in Britain is often done w... more Analysis of fin-de-siecle or early 20th century gender representations in Britain is often done with reference to first-wave feminism and the suffrage movement that culminated in the achievement of the vote for women in 1928. This history shows the fraught and prolonged struggle to transform gender relations and gain personal and group rights and universal suffrage, which was marked not just by gender prejudices but also those of class. But what if we explore this topic of the representation of Edwardian women and their gender relations through an alternative lens? What if we explore it through the theme of Empire to see the connections between the representation of women in Britain and political events that took place in distant climes and far-off places? What sort of new meanings would emerge in this alternative view? Such an analysis would be valid because Britain’s empire had caused a skew in gender demographics since the Victorian period as its men left in large numbers to gove...

A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road is the fourth novel in the 'Lesser-known Raj Ficti... more A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road is the fourth novel in the 'Lesser-known Raj Fiction' series edited by Ralph Crane. A gripping adventure romance of the Frontier first published in 1907, The Broken Road tells of the building of the Road, and, through the relationship between the two main characters, Dick Linforth, scion of a family of Empire-builders, and Shere Ali, the Prince of Chiltistan, compellingly explores the sense of duty that drove successive generations of British men to sacrifice their lives to the goals of Empire, and the contentious issue of educating Indian princes in England. While undoubtedly reinscribing the image of a confident and secure empire characteristic of much Raj fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the novel also offers unusual insights into the human cost-on both sides of the racial divide-of producing that image, making it of significant interest to readers interested in colonial and postcolonial literatures, as well as general readers. This new, critical edition of The Broken Road, which includes a detailed introduction, a chronology of A.E.W.Mason's life, maps, and extensive explanatory notes, makes available a fascinating work of Raj fiction.

individual answers for the many questions that Virgil purposefully raises and purposefully leaves... more individual answers for the many questions that Virgil purposefully raises and purposefully leaves unanswered (100, 140, 180). In order to make this book "friendly" to nonspecialists (xi), Van Nortwick uses two appendices, "Further Reading" (185-88) and "Bibliographical Essay" (189-93), as substitutes for a more usual and more thorough method of documenting his debts to previous scholars, a decision with which I cannot agree. I also wonder at the fact that neither of these appendices mentions Norman Austin's Meaning and Being in Myth (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990), another work that takes a broadly Jungian view of classical literature, particularly the Iliad. And finally, I was surprised that a book published by Oxford University Press contains so many editing errors (all running heads for chapter four reversed and errata on pages 101, 116, 140, 158, 167, 180 [twice]). But these are small matters. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is a va...

Greenwood Press eBooks, 1995

Nationalities papers, May 22, 2023

Lexington Books, Jun 15, 2016

Nationalities Papers

Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of st... more Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of state borders, especially in Eastern Europe, the fluidity of the contours of nations, and the vagaries and idiosyncratic nature of political changes in the European continent from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The title of this work takes its inspiration from Zygmunt Bauman’s famous work, Liquid Modernity (2000). Bauman’s work, which was published in 2000 in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and also Yugoslavia that resulted in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, first posits the obvious – that fluids cannot hold their shape as solids do because the structural arrangements of solids, unlike liquids, bind their atoms together. Bauman characterizes solidity as having hardened contours and belonging to a pre-modernity with its unchanging or slowly changing social, political, and economic mores. Modernity, on the other hand, is likened to liquids in that, like time, there is a f...

Rowman & Littlefield International eBooks, Jun 30, 2020

This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visua... more This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of 'thinking trauma', foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible? What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing

In the heritage of imperialism, one of the peculiar by-products is the ’emancipated ’ woman in th... more In the heritage of imperialism, one of the peculiar by-products is the ’emancipated ’ woman in the decolonized nation, not her sister in metropolitan space, whom we know much better. However unwilling she may be to ac-knowledge this, part of the historical burden of that ’emancipated ’ postcolonial is to be in a situation of tu-toi-ing with the radical feminist in the metropolis.

This collection contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that explore the continuing cultural, ... more This collection contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that explore the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subject-themes as well as regions within South Asia-that illustrate Vazira Zamindar's idea of a "Long Partition."

Choice Reviews Online, 1996

... Page 10. vi Contents 7. Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figurin... more ... Page 10. vi Contents 7. Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figuring" Home,"Locating Histories Anindyo Roy 101 8. Postcolonial Spaces and Deterritorialized (Homo) Sexuality: The Films of Hanif Kureishi Radhika Mohanram 117 9. 7s My Body Proper? ...

... Some of these articles (Sumathi Ramaswamy's" Virgin Mother, Beloved... more ... Some of these articles (Sumathi Ramaswamy's" Virgin Mother, Beloved Other" and Susie Tharu's" The Impossible Subject" come to mind immediately ... Such a difference is evident in yet another article in the special issue of Thamyris, Anupama Rao's" Understanding'Sirasgaon ...

Analysis of fin-de-siecle or early 20th century gender representations in Britain is often done w... more Analysis of fin-de-siecle or early 20th century gender representations in Britain is often done with reference to first-wave feminism and the suffrage movement that culminated in the achievement of the vote for women in 1928. This history shows the fraught and prolonged struggle to transform gender relations and gain personal and group rights and universal suffrage, which was marked not just by gender prejudices but also those of class. But what if we explore this topic of the representation of Edwardian women and their gender relations through an alternative lens? What if we explore it through the theme of Empire to see the connections between the representation of women in Britain and political events that took place in distant climes and far-off places? What sort of new meanings would emerge in this alternative view? Such an analysis would be valid because Britain’s empire had caused a skew in gender demographics since the Victorian period as its men left in large numbers to gove...

A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road is the fourth novel in the 'Lesser-known Raj Ficti... more A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road is the fourth novel in the 'Lesser-known Raj Fiction' series edited by Ralph Crane. A gripping adventure romance of the Frontier first published in 1907, The Broken Road tells of the building of the Road, and, through the relationship between the two main characters, Dick Linforth, scion of a family of Empire-builders, and Shere Ali, the Prince of Chiltistan, compellingly explores the sense of duty that drove successive generations of British men to sacrifice their lives to the goals of Empire, and the contentious issue of educating Indian princes in England. While undoubtedly reinscribing the image of a confident and secure empire characteristic of much Raj fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the novel also offers unusual insights into the human cost-on both sides of the racial divide-of producing that image, making it of significant interest to readers interested in colonial and postcolonial literatures, as well as general readers. This new, critical edition of The Broken Road, which includes a detailed introduction, a chronology of A.E.W.Mason's life, maps, and extensive explanatory notes, makes available a fascinating work of Raj fiction.

individual answers for the many questions that Virgil purposefully raises and purposefully leaves... more individual answers for the many questions that Virgil purposefully raises and purposefully leaves unanswered (100, 140, 180). In order to make this book "friendly" to nonspecialists (xi), Van Nortwick uses two appendices, "Further Reading" (185-88) and "Bibliographical Essay" (189-93), as substitutes for a more usual and more thorough method of documenting his debts to previous scholars, a decision with which I cannot agree. I also wonder at the fact that neither of these appendices mentions Norman Austin's Meaning and Being in Myth (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990), another work that takes a broadly Jungian view of classical literature, particularly the Iliad. And finally, I was surprised that a book published by Oxford University Press contains so many editing errors (all running heads for chapter four reversed and errata on pages 101, 116, 140, 158, 167, 180 [twice]). But these are small matters. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is a va...

The many essays collected in this volume demonstrate the expanding scope of scholarly inquiry int... more The many essays collected in this volume demonstrate the expanding scope of scholarly inquiry into the afterlives of the Partition of British India. They range across new territories and texts, explore less-known archives, and argue for the generative importance of the nation-making and nation-breaking events of 1947. Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Partition studies. — Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania

Building on earlier works by Mushiral Hasan, Vazira Zamindar, Urvashi Butalia, Alok Bhalla, and others, this provocative collection of nineteen interdisciplinary essays uses the hermeneutic lens of the Long Partition to demonstrate the 'messy identities' in today's descendants of the various 'looking-glass borders' attendant upon 1947. Drawing on trauma studies and oral narratives—and alert to the ongoing ramifications far beyond the Punjab and Bengal—this welcome consideration of collective memories and new art forms gives voice to women, ethno-religious minorities, and other marginalized populations. The book should prove to be a significant addition to South Asian studies. — John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University

In this highly commendable volume, the editors have collected critically alert and morally engaged essays about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 and its long term political and social consequences. The contributors make sophisticated and judicious use of different critical theories to offer intelligent readings of several Partition novels and films. The book is especially welcome for its well-researched historical accounts of regions like Sindh, Kashmir and the Northeast that were also scarred by violent events but have received little scholarly attention. — Alok Bhalla, author of Stories About the Partition of India (4 volumes) and Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home.

ABOUT THE BOOK: This timely volume contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that critically explore the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on South Asia, as well as those with historical, cultural, and emotional ties to the region. It deploys, as an organizing concept, Vazira Zamindar's notion of a " Long Partition " to focus on previously neglected areas, likes themes and regions, in existing scholarship on the subject as the 70th anniversary of the cataclysmic event approaches.