Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life. Both delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and tribal life during decolonization. Whether rendering the themes of ecological loss, the connections ...
There are now more than four million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's and it's estimated that 14 million will have the disease by 2050. It's also an increasing problem world- wide. The good news is that everyone can make lifestyle changes to increase the odds that they will live well into old-age with their mental faculties intact. Dr. Devi's ...
A major intervention in queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies, "Impossible Subjects" rethinks the concept of diaspora through examinations of a range of South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gaytri Gopinath develops a concept of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, ...
In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. This title includes major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists. It intervenes in the fraught issues ...
In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism - Spivak ...
In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and the new cultural studies shaping our understanding of "culture"? One of the most influential scholars in critical theory today, Spivak's ...
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. The Spivak Reader makes this important body of work available and accessible to all students. Although her rigorous readings of various authors has often ...
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it ...
Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico ...
This handbook offers practitioners of the manual therapies much-needed guidance on professional and ethical boundaries in client-therapist interactions. The author examines the complex psychodynamics of the client-practitioner relationship, explains why clear professional boundaries benefit clients, and shows how to establish and maintain ...
This book collects ten essays from the five volumes of Subaltern Studies that have so far appeared. The aim of the studies is to 'promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. ...
Ramprasad (c1720-1781) is a much-loved, much-sung mystic poet of Bengal, whose violently intimate relationship with his goddess, the awesome Kali, inspired spiritual love poetry which lives and breathes on the skin. Nirode Mazumdar, a painter whose own quest led him deep into the myths and values of his heritage, responded with visuals evoked by ...
With more than 200 letters from America's teens, this book reveals what they think about important issues including substance abuse, sexuality, peer pressure, and parental relationships.
Krishen Khanna is a painter whose work engages the social, historical and political landscape of India. Born in Lahore in 1925, Khanna learned the tools of his trade at the evening classes conducted at the Mayo School of Art, Lahore. In the wake of India's partition he moved to Simla and thereafter to Delhi, where he currently lives and works. ...
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". She has since built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary ...
A collection of Mari Gayatri Stein's cartoons or "Dharmatoons", which gently teach the reader the nature of Buddhist thought. The cartoons deal with central concepts such as the Four Noble Truths, The Eightfold Path and the nature of the Hindrances along the path.
Until recently, when satellite television changed viewing habits, Mehboob Khan's "Mother India" (1957) could boast the remarkable distinction of having been constantly in distribution in India since its first release. Rooted both in Hindu mythology and in the collective experience of a newly independent nation-state on the brink of ...
Daughter of famed businessman Lester Avnet, Carole Rocherolle writes a quirky, humorous, and inspiring story of her marriage, her search for a career, and ultimately the satisfaction of completing, after almost 20 years of dedication, along with her husband, the spectacular Steinhardt Gardens in Bedford, NY. The book is also an educated look at ...
"Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema is an insightful journey into the complex worlds of fantasy and reality inhabited by creative artistes. India is a unique country that exists in multiple centuries simultaneously. This book unravels the various mysteries and contradictions embedded in our centuries-old tradition. (...) Using defined sections and ...
Matching of charts for marriage is a very important area of astrology. Matching becomes indispensable if we realise that there are more factors than meet the eye that go to make a marriage not only happy but also lasting. This volume on the important subject of horoscope matching is meant to give a correct idea of the complex process involved in ...
This book contains more than 100 cartoons and drawings with accompanying text that describes things we can learn from the canines in our midst, complete with amusing true-dog stories. The life lessons are both touching and humorous. Sections include Authenticity, Reveling in Life's Abundance, Unconditional Love and Devotion, Living in the Now, ...
K.M. Adimoolam's art resists easy categorization. He brings to his work a genuine spirity of inquiry, and a continually rejuvenating wonder at the cosmic possibilities of art. He makes profoundly aesthetic choices, bringing to his abstract paint- ing and apparently realistic drawing sheer, unambiguous artistic skills.
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