Bodies that remember
Subtitle: women's indigenous knowledge and cosmopolitanism in South Asian poetry
By: Anita Anantharam
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780815632634
Subjects: History and criticism; South Asian poetry; Women and literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: One day the girl will return; title: Introduction: Intervals in time, interplay of feelings: empowerment as process; title: Through the looking glass of poetry: grounding metaphor and illuminating women's history; title: "Pink in the black border": feminism, nationalism, and islamic revitalization; title: "One day the girl will return": compassion as social praxis; title: Epilogue: visionary activism: religion, metaphor, and feminist history.