Intimate Class Acts

Author : Maryam Mirza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089698
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Class Acts written by Maryam Mirza and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in Ice-Candy-Man, The Inheritance of Loss and Rich Like Us reveal striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan. In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Among others, Mirza examines well-known novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron and works that have hitherto drawn limited critical attention, such as Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence and Brinda Charry’s The Hottest Day of the Year.

Author : Maryam Mirza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199087228
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Class Acts written by Maryam Mirza and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this text.

Author : Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge Law Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 1108488587
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions written by Brian T. Fitzpatrick and published by Cambridge Law Handbooks. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International authors describe class action procedure in this concise, comparative, and empirical perspective on aggregate litigation.

Author : Mary Mitchell
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 1461710456
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Acts written by Mary Mitchell and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the complete guide to handling sticky situations, embarrassing questions, rude encounters, and faux pas with grace and style.

Author : Charles Edward Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890-1909 written by Charles Edward Allan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Action Jurisdiction Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambreen Hai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019769800X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Servitude written by Ambreen Hai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic servitude is a widespread phenomenon in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, where even lower-middle class homes rely on domestic workers (mostly women and children). While social scientists have begun to study this unregulated and exploitative "informal sector," literary critics have not paid attention to servants in South Asian literatures or examined their political or literary significance. Postcolonial Servitude argues that a new generation of writers has begun to rethink this culture of servitude and to devise new forms of writing designed to prompt change in normalized ways of seeing and being. It is the first to offer a sustained exploration of servitude and servants in South Asian English literature, from the early 20th century to the present.

Author : Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350200832
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture written by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the Indian economy in the 1990s has led to a decline in freedom for many female, Dalit, and lower class Indians. This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India, examining how global capitalism has exacerbated existing inequalities based on traditional femininities and masculinities, while also creating new hierarchies. Freedom Inc. argues that post-1990s literature and culture frequently represents and reinforces the equation of free-market capitalism with individual freedom within the new 'idea of India.' However, many texts often also challenge this logic by pointing to more expansive horizons of autonomy for the gendered self. Through readings of texts as diverse as Dalit women's life-writing, pop fiction, realist novels, self-help, regional film, and Netflix TV shows, Mangharam investigates how notions like 'free trade,' 'entrepreneurship,' and 'self-help' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by disadvantaged peoples, and by women differently than men. In the process, Freedom Inc. explores how different literary forms illuminate alternative and buried pathways to fuller freedoms.

Author : Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031068173
Total Pages : 311 pages
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Download or read book Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English written by Om Prakash Dwivedi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466398
Total Pages : 301 pages
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Download or read book Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson