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The Third Gender: Stain and Pain
The comprehensive compendium The Third Gender: Stain and Pain is packed with prodigious research papers, articles and case studies of well-versed academicians from all over India. The anthology addresses the myriad facets of a transgender’s life. Their problems of social identity, inequality, marginalisation, social exclusion, health care issues, documentation, education, unemployment, and poverty have been discoursed from social, political, economic, cultural and jurisprudential along with scientific angles. The book incorporates not only the troubles and deplorable plights but also intimates some resolutions that can mitigate the embarrassing abasements of the Third Gender.
Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the tropes, themes and representational frameworks constellating around the figure of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. It critically approaches the Goddess theme in various genres of South Asian cinema, using analytical tools culled from gender studies, comparative cultural studies, and religious studies, as well as film semiotics. The films discussed here represent variegated thematizations of the Goddess across regions in South Asia, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various geo-cultural locations in India. As the volume highlights the regional and politico-cultural differences and commonalities in representational schemes between South Asian films of different genres through the Goddess motif, it will appeal to scholars of film studies, South Asian studies and comparative religion, and will hold a special appeal for those interested in Goddess cultures and theology.
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelationships is a unique collection of essays that comprehensively discusses the nature of interrelationship of India and Scotland spread over the last two centuries. It covers areas such as nature writing with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Geddes, role of the formative history of Scottish Churches College, Disruption Movement in Scotland and Calcutta, rise of surveillance literature, dichotomy of Homeland and Hostland, Vidyasagar and Scottish transactions, Scottish missionary movement in Kalimpong, Scottish war literature, and interface of Scottish and Indian legal systems. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)
Women and Literature in India
The present volume, containing eight essays, seeks to understand the trajectory of growth of women’s writing in India. It seeks to explore, historically, the narratives in women’s writing, beginning with the Sangam poets and the medieval saints, to the effects of colonialism, as well as the representation of neocolonial concerns in contemporary Indian women's writing. Taken together, the chapters provide a way to analyse how literature has always been used as a form of resistance and a tool for emancipation. The contributors, with diverse perspectives, embrace a plurality of approaches in their attempt to represent the condition/s of women in India. To do so, they often delve into the intersectionality of caste, class, gender, and religious issues to paint a picture of the multiple textured realities of Indian society. By doing so, this volume tends to move beyond the orientalist frame of reading gender issues toward an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of realities that continue to plague women, which otherwise is lost through normative readings.
Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia Volume-One
Mythopoeia has always been a steady proponent in the construct of any socio-cultural order. In contemporary times, owing to the rise of cultural studies, a steady interest in revisionist literary texts has also surfaced. The association of Indian culture and values with a plethora of mythological narratives have made several scholars curious because they do offer an array of new perspectives of understanding the art, aesthetics and also the politics of myths within a larger social, religious and cultural context. Similarly, by exploring the trope of myth, it has been possible to look at other countries' cultures as well. This anthology offers new readings of classical myths across continents and cultures. The anthologized essays have collectively explored the various trends of revisionist literature. Sincere attempts have also been made to highlight the ways in which re-readings of select literary works can admirably transform set notions and ideas of human existence.
Rendezvous of Repertoire
Rendezvous of Repertoire: An Anthology of Critical Essays by Women is a collection of essays on diverse topics penned by female academicians. More than an editorial work, this has been a collective journey for all of us where we have grown together. This work is our tribute to all the women academicians who have changed lives.
Life: An Intriguing Roller Coaster
About the Book The beauty of life as understood by the author brings before the eyes of the reader a radiant ray of hope, in a world that is slowly turning grey with every passing day. With an intense sensitivity, she carefully considers pertinent issues, which despite being steadily prevalent around us, are usually left unacknowledged or ignore. Usmani through her sincere attempt leaves the reader at a point of junction where all the confusions and dilemmas end. One feels empowered to have found the encouragement to mastering the art of forgiving the self, thus, rising above the restrictive and redundant orders and expectations of the society. - Dr. Ritushree Sengupta
Anger in the Long Nineteenth Century
This edited collection traverses the genre of anger studies by documenting its transition from the Classical age up to our present-day cognizance of the philosophical, socio-historical, psycho-physiological and pathological theorizations of anger. The book illustrates how literature may systematically document and even institutionalize primal, emotive outbursts, providing meaningful analysis for scholars across various disciplines. The contributions here cover a wide spectrum of critical works, ranging from Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Seneca’s De Ira and Plutarch’s On Restraining Anger to Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra, as well as notable nineteenth century texts by authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Lawson.
