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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"South Asian Literature"”.
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Violence, Militarism and the Environment in Contemporary South Asian Literature
… on the rise in violence and militarism within South
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Transforming Limits: Home, Literary Activism and Engagement in South Asian Literature
… as a significant and recurring preoccupation of South Asian literary fiction and non - fiction predominantly in the twentieth century, with some notable extensions into the first decade o f the twenty - first century. Relatedly, it considers the centrality of ‘home’ in cultural, social and …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
Cities in the Global South are understood as a mélange of paradoxical typologies between slums and high rises. Both in urban theory and practice, these symbolizations are classified respectively as informal and formal. However, as scholars like Ananya Roy and Colin McFarlane have shown, these …
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Migrating memories: Power and transcultural memory in contemporary South Asian fiction
… does power have on memory? Second, how does literature help us “locate” or make visible the processes of memory transmission within and between subaltern groups whose actions are patrolled and, at times, curtailed? These questions are central to the future trajectories of memory studies, …
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A Desire for Meaning: Ḳhān-i Ārzū's Philology and the Place of India in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World
… court and a prestigious literary medium in South Asia. Not only did Persian connect the Subcontinent with intellectual and cultural trends across western and central Asia, but during the early-modern period, India--even compared with Iran--was arguably the world's main center for the …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… in English (and, in one chapter, new media literatures such as videogame-based narratives) to examine how individuals, communities, and globalized networks manage differences among historical interpretations, ideologies, lived experiences, and cultural and national traditions making …