Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities
This book represents a significant contribution to academic knowledge, making a compelling case for a contemporary analytical re-reading of a number of “core” postcolonial women’s narratives, such as Erna Brodber’s Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. These narratives highlight diversity, contextuality, opposition, and metachrony, have a “generative literary function”, and anticipate what have now become postcolonial feminist issues and debates. Bringing together feminist writing from a range of postcolonial contexts, the book contributes to a field represented by the critical writings of Francoise L...
Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog
The few, and generally obsolete Tagalog words of Arabic and/or Persian origin that can be found in old and modern dictionaries are fragments from a period when they must have been more numerous, although their number cannot ever have been very large. Some illustrate how Manila was an outpost of the Bornean polity based in Brunei, itself a part of the Indo-Javanese system, while others point at direct contacts with traders who spoke some varieties of Arabic, but were probably Indians, Persians, Armenians from Persia or even Turks. Thus these terms entered Tagalog over a very long period that lasted until the 19th Century.
Trying to Grow
Brit Kotwal Breaks His Legs Eleven Times Before He Is Five Years Old. His Teeth Crumble And Chip If He Tries To Bite Into Anything. It Was His Sister Dolly S Idea To Call Him Brit, Short For Brittle, Because Of His Bones. Besides, Parsees Don T Really Like Long First-Names, And It Pleased His Mother Sera Because It Sounded So English. It Was Fun Sometimes, Being Different. None Of The Other Children Drank Powdered Pearls In Their Milk, Or Had Almond Oil Rubbed Into Their Legs Until It Gleamed Like Bangalore Silk. And Brit Knew He Could Always Get His Own Way With Dolly Even If It Took A Little Blackmail. But When You Reach Eighteen And Are Still The Size Of An Eight Year Old, It Is Not Much Fun, And Brit Has To Begin To Try And Grow In His Own Way& Trying To Grow Is A Many-Splendoured Work Built Around The Experiences Of A Physically Handicapped Boy Turning Into Manhood, A Deeply Moving Story Told With A Remarkable Blend Of Directness, Humour And Irreverence.
Woman at Point Zero
Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. In Woman at Point Zero, Firdaus tells her unforgettable story. Woman at Point Zero is also available in audiobook format from audiobook retailers.
Borderwork
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline and calls for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender.
Fictions of Dignity
Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, a...
Cactus Country
Aslam Chisti, a young Pakistani officer, is faced with a difficult choice war explodes, tearing apart his country.... As tanks and soldiers prowl through East Pakistan, which is fighting to emerge as a sovereign nation: Bangladesh, Chisti who has been posted to the war zone, is taken prisoner by Bangladeshi guerrillas. To further complicate matters, the young officer falls in love with the enemy-the beautiful daughter of a Bengali princess in whose mansion Chisti is placed under house arrest.... In this novel Manohar Malgonkar gives us an enthralling tale of love, valour, manhood and the brutalities of war.
Bisikan An-Nur
Pertembungan emosi antara Zaid dan Luqman terjadi apabila mereka memuja bunga yang sama dan menyimpan hasrat yang serupa. Zaid seorang mahasiswa yang berkarisma juga merupakan seorang pengarang muda yang sedang meningkat naik namanya di persada sastera tanah air. Luqman pula mahasiawa biasa yang bersifat rendah diri, sopan santun dan baik hati. Masing-masing cuba mencari jalan terbaik untuk memiliki hati Sofiya. Bagi Sofiya, dia perlukan kayu ukur untuk menyukat kasih dua pemuda sekuliahnya itu. Dia sayang kedua-duanya hingga terperangkap di tengah-tengah persimpangan. Terluka, dilukai dan melukakan bukanlah pilihan yang diingini. Namun, dia terpaksa demi sekeping hati miliknya.
