Bodies That Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry (Gender and Globalization) - Hardcover
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Provides an analysis of creative expression and literary tradition in the exploration of the lives and works of four Hindu and Urdu female poets, including Mahadevi Varma, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz and Gagan Gill.
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About the Author
<b>Anita Anantharam</b> is assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research. She is the editor of<i> Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation.</i>
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The binding is tight, top corner of the back panel bumped. Slight bump to the top corner of the text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xxii, 252pp. Seller Inventory # DERHAManaBT
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, xxii + 252 pages, NOT ex-library. Mild handling well. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In a fine dust jacket. -- This study provides a critical analysis of contemporary poetry by South Asian women, arguing that their work constitutes a form of "embodied epistemology." The author examines how these poets use the female body as a site for remembering and transmitting indigenous knowledge, often in resistance to both patriarchal traditions and globalized modernity. The work explores how themes of ritual, domesticity, and sensuality are used to articulate a unique form of "subaltern cosmopolitanism" - a way of being global while remaining rooted in local, embodied experience. It serves as a key text in feminist and postcolonial literary criticism, highlighting poetry as a vital archive of women's knowledge. -- Contents: Prologue: One Day the Girl Will Return; Introduction: Intervals in Time, Interplay of Feelings: Empowerment as Process; 1. Through the Looking Glass of Poetry: Grounding Metaphor and Illuminating Women's History; 2. "Pink in the Black Border": Feminism, Nationalism, and Islamic Revitalization; 3. "One Day the Girl Will Return": Compassion as Social Praxis; Epilogue: Visionary Activism: Religion, Metaphor, and Feminist History; Works Cited; Index -- "The book explores the lives and works of four of the most recognized Hindu and Urdu female poets of the 20th century. In contrast to much of the South Asian literary criticism and postcolonial theory that concentrates on the Indo-English novel, Anantharam highlights the poetry of these vernacular writers, connecting their critical voices with nationalist and religious revitalization movements in India and Pakistan. Focusing on Mahadevi Varma, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, and Gagan Gill, Bodies That Remember offers a powerful meditation on the alternative linguistic traditions found in the writings of these four poets, two from India and two from Pakistan. In doing so, the book illustrates the ways in which poetry locates the places where urban cosmopolitanism meets indigenous knowledge and produces a new understanding of identity, one that crosses traditional boundaries of caste, class, and religion. Going beyond an analysis of women's creative expression in the Hindu and Urdu languages, Anantharam deftly traces the intersecting veins of nationalism, literary tradition, and religion as she details the complexity of gendered identity in modern South Asia.". Seller Inventory # 011419
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