Download or read book An Analysis of Hybridity in Prajwal Parajuly s The Gurkha s Daughter written by Surendra Shah and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Literature - General, grade: M.A, , language: English, abstract: This paper analyses Prajwal Parajuly's short stories "The Gurkha's Daughter". In "The Gurkha’s Daughter" (2012), Parajuly concerns characters survival through cultural practices between Nepali and English convention as hybridity in a host country. The characters of these stories immigrate to the host country with some purpose where they develop hybrid cultural space. They seem to have difficulty in coping with the host culture and the country because of which they start to negotiate and adapt new language, behavior, religion, lifestyle, relationship etc. In order to show the presence of hybrid cultural space, different hybrid elements from the stories were identified and reasoned for hybridity. Hybrid is a word termed by Homi K. Bhabha which gives rise to new and unidentifiable cultural identity that has negotiation of meaning and representation. Hybridity is a product of adaptation and negotiation that is developed by immigrants in a host country for acceptance by the host community or for survival.
Download or read book Interpreting Literature from Northeast India written by Margaret L. Pachuau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the nascent sensibilities at work in literature emanating from Northeast India. It takes into account the generic diversity in works derived from the region and discusses fiction, poetry, drama, folk narratives, film adaptations as well as early missionary narratives. It covers a wide spectrum of themes such as landscape, partition, World War, history, nationalism, violence and territoriality, memory and identity. The book looks at works in English and vernacular from Northeast India states. It contextualizes developments within intellectual history and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and culture studies, within a broader framework.
Download or read book Hybridity in Prajwal Parajuly s The Gurkha s Daughter written by Surendra Shah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gurkha s Daughter written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number one bestseller in India and a shortlisted nomination for the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Gurkha's Daughter is a distinctive debut from a rising star in South Asian literature. This collection of stories captures the textures and sounds of the Nepalese diaspora through eight intimate, nuanced portraits, taking us from the hillside city of Darjeeling, India to a tucked away Nepalese restaurant in New York City. The daily struggles of Parajuly's characters reveal histories of war, colonial occupation, religious division, systemized oppression, and dispossession in the diverse geographical intersection of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and China. In a cruel remark by a wealthy doctor to her tenant shopkeeper, we hear the persistent injustice of the caste system; in the contentious relationship between a wealthy widow and her sister-in-law, we glimpse the restricted lives and submissive social roles of Nepalese women; and in a daughter's relationship with her father, we find a dissonance between modernity and tradition that has echoed through the generations in unexpected ways. Across different ethnicities, religions, and other social distinctions, the characters in these share a universal yearning, not just for survival but for a better life; one with love, dignity, and community. In The Gurkha's Daughter, Parajuly reveals the small acts of bravery--the sustaining, driving hope--that bind together the human experience.
Download or read book Voices in the City written by Anita Desai and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1965 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.
Download or read book Land Where I Flee written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi - her landmark 84th birthday - three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his family's inquisition into why he is not married, and is terrified that the reason for his bachelordom will be discovered. Joining him are Manasa and Bhagwati, travelling from London and Colorado respectively. One the Oxford-educated achiever; the other the disgraced eloper - one moneyed but miserable; the other ostracized but optimistic. All three harbour the same dual objective: to emerge from the celebrations with their formidable grandmother's blessing and their nerves intact - a goal that will become increasingly difficult thanks to a mischievous maid and a fourth, uninvited guest.
Download or read book Select Pieces written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Dead written by Jim Crace and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-04-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner From the author of Quarantine comes Being Dead, Jim Crace's haunting novel about love, death, and the afterlife. Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes. "Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."
Download or read book The Power to Forgive and Other Stories written by Avinuo Kire and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avinuo Kire’s is a fresh, young voice from Nagaland, in India’s northeast. In ‘The Power to Forgive’, the title story of this strong collection, Avinuo Kire tells the moving story of a rape survivor who, at the threshold of a new life, looks back on the incident that has shaped nearly two decades of her life and wonders if she made the right choice. Culled from folk and tribal traditions of Naga life, Kire’s stories take us into a world where spirits converse with humans, unsuspecting people are drawn into the movement for Naga independence, a man dies quietly of cancer, a mother wonders if she did the right thing in giving her child a name different from the one she intended… While the long drawn-out conflict and militancy form the backdrop of many of the stories, it is the finely drawn portraits of ordinary people in Naga society that mark this unusual collection. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book Gender and Social Movements written by M. Bahati Kuumba and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief text examining gender roles in social movements, M. Bahati Kuumba shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. Gender and Social Movements is the ideal text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Download or read book Russian Women Writers written by Christine D. Tomei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Geopolitics written by Robert A. Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.
Download or read book Public Library System in India written by C. A. Augustine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festschrift honoring M.N. Ramakrishnan Nayar, b. 1929, professor and head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, on his superannuation in 1989; comprises papers presented at a seminar, Trivandrum, 1989.
Download or read book Modern Practices in North East India written by Lipokmar Dzüvichü and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region. Departing from the usual focus on identity and politics, it offers fresh representations from history, social anthropology, culture, literature, politics, performance and gender. Through the lens of modern practices, the essays in this volume engage with diverse issues, including state-making practices, knowledge production and its politics, history writing, colonialism, role of capital, institutions, changing locations of orality and modernity, production and reception of texts, performances and literatures, social change and memory, violence and gender relations, along with their wider historical, geographical and ideational mappings. In the process, they illustrate how the specificities of the region can become useful sites to interrogate global phenomena and processes — for instance, in what ways ideas and practices of modernity played an important role in framing the region and its people. Further, the volume underlines the complex ways in which the past came to be imagined, produced and contested in the region. With its blend of inter-disciplinary approach, analytical models and perspectives, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and general readers interested in North East India and those working on history, frontiers and borderlands, gender, cultural studies and literature.
Download or read book Ethnicity State and Development written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When the River Sleeps written by Easterine Kire and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams: to wrest from its sleeping waters a stone that will give him untold power. It is a dangerous quest, for not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses and daemons of the forest, there are men – armed with guns – on his trail. Easterine Kire’s novel transports the reader to the remote mountains of Nagaland, a place alive with natural wonder and supernatural enchantment. As Vilie treks through the forest on the trail of his dream, we are also swept along in this powerful narrative and walk alongside him in a world where the spirits are every bit as real as men and women, and where danger – or salvation – lies at every turn. Kire’s powerful narrative invites us into the lives and hearts of the people of Nagaland: the rituals and beliefs, their reverence for the land, their close-knit communities – the rhythms of a life lived in harmony with their natural surroundings. It is against this spellbinding backdrop that Kire tells the story of a solitary man driven by the mysterious pull of a dream, who must overcome weretigers and malignant widow-spirits in the search for his heart’s desire. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book New South Asian Feminisms written by Srila Roy and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideologically fragmented and replaced. It is time to rethink the feminist political agenda for the predicaments of the present. This timely volume provides an original and unprecedented exploration of the current state of South Asian feminist politics. It will map the new sites and expressions of feminism in the region today, addressing issues like disability, Internet technologies, queer subjectivities and violence as everyday life across national boundaries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Written by young scholars from the region, this book addresses the generational divide of feminism in the region, effectively introducing a new 'wave' of South Asian feminists that resonates with feminist debates everywhere around the globe.
