Asian Home Situating Self In Western Women S Select Travel Narratives

Author : Dr. Devika S
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798889755364

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Asian Home: Situating Self in Western Women’s Select Travel Narratives by Dr. Devika S Pdf

How did the West’s countercultural notions widen their zeal and zest onto the Himalayas? How did Nepal turn out to be a safe haven for Western women who made their travels to different Asian countries? With no direct traces of colonialism, the opening of Nepal to foreigners after 1951 offered travelers a new destination for imbibing Eastern spiritual traditions. The post-War condition was fertile for several radical movements. Many people found solace in traveling to escape from the brutal after-effects of the Second World War. The socio-political and economic conditions of Europe and America post-World War II necessitated the need to travel to overcome the trauma of the war. For women, travel became the means of empowerment and at the same time a spiritual endeavour. The knowledge and understanding of theology and other spiritual knowledge led many travelers to be part of the ‘hippie trail’, in which Nepal is the final destination. This book offers a fresh outlook to women’s perceptions of a second home in a foreign land.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498577632

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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically, imperialism and the indentured/ ‘grimit’ system, triggered dispersal of labourers to the various colonies of the British. Of course, this was not the only cause of international migratory processes. The partition of India and Pakistan led to large scale migration. There was Punjabi migration to Canada. Several Indians, particularly the Gujaratis travelled to Africa for business reasons. South Indians travelled to the Gulf for employment. There were migrations to East Asian countries under the kangani system. Again, these were not the only reasons. The process of demographic movement from South Asia, has been complex due to innumerable push-pull factors. The subsequent generations of migrants included the twice, thrice (and likewise) displaced members of the diaspora. Racial denigration and Orientalist perceptions plagued their lives. They belonged to various ethnicities and races, inhabited marginalized spaces and strived to acculturate in the host society. Complete cultural assimilation was not possible, creating layered and hyphenated identities. These intricate social processes resulted in amalgamation and cross-pollination of cultures, inter-racial relationships and hybridization in all terrains of culture—language, music, fashion, cuisine and so on. Situated in this matrix was the notion of Home—a special personal space which an individual could feel as belonging to, very strongly. Nostalgia, loss of home, culture shock and interracial encounters problematized this discernment of belongingness and home. These multifarious themes have been captured by women writers from the South Asian region and this book looks at the various aspects related to negotiating home in their narratives.

Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139527

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Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Pdf

'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.

Author : Yvette Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770911324

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The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan Pdf

In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years.

Author : Brian Bocking,Phibul Choompolpaisal,Laurence Cox,Alicia M Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317655183

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A Buddhist Crossroads by Brian Bocking,Phibul Choompolpaisal,Laurence Cox,Alicia M Turner Pdf

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was transformed by the impact of colonial modernity and new technologies and began to spread in earnest to the West. Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western converts engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of Buddhism for a globalized world, in ways not controlled by any single sect or region. Drawing on new research by scholars worldwide, this book brings together some of the most extraordinary episodes and personalities of a period of almost a century from 1860-1960. Examples include Indian intellectuals who saw Buddhism as a homegrown path for a modern post-colonial future, poor whites ‘going native’ as Asian monks, a Brooklyn-born monk who sought to convert Mussolini, and the failed 1950s attempt to train British monks to establish a Thai sangha in Britain. Some of these stories represent creative failures, paths not taken, which may show us alternative possibilities for a more diverse Buddhism in a world dominated by religious nationalisms. Other pioneers paved the way for the mainstreaming of new forms of Buddhism in later decades, in time for the post-1960s takeoff of ‘global Buddhism’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1564 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001922954X

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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000153384718

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Commerce
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000004840

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The Economist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Hou,Sabine Knierbein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317297437

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City Unsilenced by Jeffrey Hou,Sabine Knierbein Pdf

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics? City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and specificities of urban resistance movements that respond to those impacts. They focus on how such movements make use of and transform the meanings and capacity of public space. They investigate their ramifications in the continued practices of renewing democracies. A broad collection of cases is presented and analyzed, including Movimento Passe Livre (Brazil), Google Bus Blockades San Francisco (USA), the Platform for Mortgage Affected People (PAH) (Spain), the Piqueteros Movement (Argentina), Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong), post-Occupy Gezi Park (Turkey), Sunflower Movement (Taiwan), Occupy Oakland (USA), Syntagma Square (Greece), Researchers for Fair Policing (New York), Urban Movement Congress (Poland), urban activism (Berlin), 1DMX (Mexico), Miyashita Park Tokyo (Japan), 15M Movement (Spain), and Train of Hope and protests against Academic Ball in Vienna (Austria). By better understanding the processes and implications of the recent urban resistances, City Unsilenced contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the role and significance of public space in the practice of lived democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092746379

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St. Stephen's Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Blake
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819575180

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Mr. West by Sarah Blake Pdf

Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader’s companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10498559

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253205034

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Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-Ha Pdf

" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " —Text and Performance Quarterly "Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." —Chandra Talpade Mohanty "The idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films . . . formidable . . . " —Village Voice " . . . its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language structures lived possibilities." —Artpaper "Highly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." —Religious Studies Review Audio book narrated by Betty Miller. Produced by Speechki in 2021.

Author : Whitney Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500203547

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Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick Pdf

"This expanded edition is brought up to date in the light of the most recent developments in contemporary art. A new chapter considers globalization in the visual arts and the complex issues it raises, focusing on the many major international exhibitions since 1990 that have become an important arena for women artists from around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069724700

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The Pall Mall Budget by Anonim Pdf