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

Name: Bodies That Remember Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry
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ISBN: 9780815632634

ISBN-10: 0815632630

ISBN-13: 9780815632634

Edition: 2012

Authors: Anita Anantharam

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Bodies That Remember 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. Focusing on Mahadevi Varma, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, and Gagan Gill, Bodies That Remember offers a powerful meditation on the alternative linguistic traditions found in the writings of these four poets, two from India and two from Pakistan. In doing so, the…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Transliterations


Prologue: One Day the Girl Will Return


Introduction: Intervals in Time, Interplay of Feelings: Empowerment as Process



Through the Looking Glass of Poetry: Grounding Metaphor and Illuminating Women's History



"Pink in the Black Border": Feminism, Nationalism, and Islamic Revitalization



"One Day the Girl Will Return": Compassion as Social Praxis


Epilogue: Visionary Activism: Religion, Metaphor, and Feminist History


Works Cited


Index