Bodies That Remember - Women s Indigenous Knowledge Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Anita Anantharam is assistant professor at the University of Florida's Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research. She is the editor of Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation. Klappentext Explores the lives and works of four of the most recognized Hindu and Urdu female poets of the twentieth century. In contrast to much of the South Asian literary criticism and postcolonial theory that concentrates on the Indo-English novel, Anantharam highlights the poetry of these vernacular writers, connecting their critical voices with nationalist and religious revitalization movements in India and Pakistan. Zusammenfassung An informative and engaging exploration of four prominent female poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors Mahadevi Varma! Kishwar Naheed! Fahmida Riaz and Gagen Gill and their works! as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Anantharam
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2012
• EAN: 9780815632634
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3263-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Gender and Globalization
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies