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Four Walls and a Black Veil
Four Walls and a Black Veil contains a representative selection of Fahmida Riaz's poetry. It tracks her emotional and intellectual journey from a lovelorn childhood to her deep commitment to human dignity, peace, and secularism in the Indo-Pak subcontinent.
Portrayals of Women in Pakistan
Die Reihe Studies on Modern Orient wurde als Studien zum Modernen Orient im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet. Die Bände sind religiösen, politischen und sozialen Phänomenen in muslimischen Gesellschaften der Moderne und Gegenwart gewidmet. Das Spektrum der Reihe ist dabei nicht auf den Nahen und Mittleren Osten beschränkt, sondern berücksichtigt auch relevante Themen in mehrheitlich nicht-muslmischen Regionen, beispielsweise in Europa oder Amerika.
Godavari
Godavari is a novel based in India during the period of the 1980s. The story focuses on a week spent in a holiday resort in Maharashtra just prior to the outbreak of communal riots in cities across India. Ma, who is the mother in the family of five vacationing at the hill resort, is an educated, sensitive, middle-aged woman who constantly seeks to understand people and events through the prism of history. Ma tries hard to enjoy the vacation but is unable to do so due to her anxiety over her children as well as over her husband's flirtations with the young Worli woman, Usha who looks after the villa and the family when they are there. Ma is fascinated with the ethnicity of the Worlis, who are...
The People Next Door
Published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers India.
Bodies That Remember
An engaging and informative exploration of four women poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors and their works, as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations. The book tells of how these women forge solidarities with women from different, castes, classes, and religions through their poetry.
Modern Poetry of Pakistan
Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu). Collecting the work of forty-two poets and fifteen translators, this book reveals a society riven by ethnic, class, and political differences—but also a beautiful and truly national literature, with work both classical and modern, belonging to the same culture and sharing many of the same concerns and perceptions.
Hidden Histories of Pakistan
Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.
Decolonizing the Body of Christ
The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices. In this book, the once arch enemies of Religious studies and Postcolonial theory become critical companions in shared analysis of major postcolonial themes.
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion.
Hurt Sentiments
Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious “sentiments” of majorities in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Nair offers historical context for contemporary persecution and rising religious fundamentalism, and highlights how growing political solicitation of religious sentiments has fueled a secular resistance.
