Cracking India

Author : Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571318275

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Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book: A girl’s happy home life is suddenly disrupted by the 1947 Partition of India in this “multifaceted jewel of a novel” (Houston Chronicle). Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the many admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working-class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition. As she matures, Lenny begins to identify the differences between the Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs engaging in political arguments all around her. Lenny enjoys a happy, privileged life in Lahore, but the kidnapping of her beloved Ayah signals a dramatic change. Soon Lenny’s world erupts in religious, ethnic, and racial violence. In this tale from “Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist” (TheNew York Times Book Review), the profound upheaval that was the 1947 Partition of India is dramatically revealed through the story of one young girl, whose account of her experience proves by turns insightful, funny, and heartbreaking. “Lenny’s honesty is compelling . . . She is alternately thrilled and frightened by the events she dutifully records, and so, in the end, is the reader.” —Publishers Weekly “Much has been written about the holocaust that followed the Partition of India in 1947, but seldom has that story been told as touchingly, as convincingly, or as horrifyingly as it has been by novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Lenny dramatizes the textures of multicultural Indian life, with its summer trips to the Himalayan foothills, dinner parties, visits from the ice-candy man, and, increasingly, hints of Hindu-Muslim trouble . . . both realistic and magically evocative.” —Kirkus Reviews “A mysterious, wonderful novel.” —The Washington Post Previously published under the title Ice-Candy Man

Author : Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351181194

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Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa Pdf

Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.

Author : C. Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230360006

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Postcolonial Fiction and Disability by C. Barker Pdf

This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies.

Author : Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351181590

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The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa Pdf

Faredoon (Freddie) Junglewalla is either the jewel of the Parsi community or a murdering scoundrel. Freddie???s mother-in-law, Jerbanoo, thinks he is planning to do away with her, but Freddie has always been a pragmatist: if the old woman were to die (be murdered?) the body would have to be placed on the open-roofed Towers of Silence, in keeping with custom, and that would never do. Insurance fraud and arson, however, are well within Freddie???s repertoire???in fact he thinks he has invented the idea, so advanced is it for India, in 1901. As his ???skills??? grow he becomes a man of consequence among the Parsis, with people travelling thousands of miles to see him in Lahore, especially if they wish to escape tight spots they have got themselves into. In this wickedly comic novel, the celebrated author of Ice-Candy Man takes us into the heart of the Parsi community, portraying its varied customs and traits with contagious humour.

Author : Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571318299

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An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa Pdf

A sheltered Pakistani girl is sent to America by her parents, with unexpected results: “Entertaining, often hilarious . . . Not just another immigrant’s tale.” —Publishers Weekly Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan—and influencing their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad student, will soften the girl’s rigid thinking, they get more than they bargained for: Feroza, enthralled by American culture and her new freedom, insists on staying. A bargain is struck, allowing Feroza to attend college with the understanding that she will return home and marry well. As a student in a small western town, Feroza finds her perceptions of America, her homeland, and herself beginning to alter. When she falls in love with a Jewish American, her family is aghast. Feroza realizes just how far she has come—and wonders how much further she can go—in a delightful, remarkably funny coming-of-age novel that offers an acute portrayal of America as seen through the eyes of a perceptive young immigrant. “Humorous and affecting.” —Library Journal “Exceptional.” —Los Angeles Times “Her characters [are] painted so vividly you can almost hear them bickering.” —The New York Times

Author : Kavita Daiya
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592137442

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Violent Belongings by Kavita Daiya Pdf

Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

Author : Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computer programmers
ISBN : 1466208686

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Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell Pdf

Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top software developer jobs. This book provides: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions: From binary trees to binary search, this list of 150 questions includes the most common and most useful questions in data structures, algorithms, and knowledge based questions. 5 Algorithm Approaches: Stop being blind-sided by tough algorithm questions, and learn these five approaches to tackle the trickiest problems. Behind the Scenes of the interview processes at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Apple: Learn what really goes on during your interview day and how decisions get made. Ten Mistakes Candidates Make -- And How to Avoid Them: Don't lose your dream job by making these common mistakes. Learn what many candidates do wrong, and how to avoid these issues. Steps to Prepare for Behavioral and Technical Questions: Stop meandering through an endless set of questions, while missing some of the most important preparation techniques. Follow these steps to more thoroughly prepare in less time.

Author : Elizabeth Podnieks,Andrea O’Reilly
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554587650

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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts by Elizabeth Podnieks,Andrea O’Reilly Pdf

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and help to define or (re)shape the realities of women and families by examining how mothering and being a mother are political, personal, and creative narratives unfolding within both the pages of a book and the spaces of a life. The range of chapters maps a shift from the daughter-centric stories that have dominated the maternal tradition to the matrilineal and matrifocal perspectives that have emerged over the last few decades as the mother’s voice moved from silence to speech. Contributors make aesthetic, cultural, and political claims and critiques about mothering and motherhood, illuminating in new and diverse ways how authors and the protagonists of the texts “read” their own maternal identities as well as the maternal scripts of their families, cultures, and nations in their quest for self-knowledge, agency, and artistic expression.

Author : Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn,Vera Alexander
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 3825892107

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Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn,Vera Alexander Pdf

Prominent scholars in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, theatre production, and translation challenge the centre-periphery dichotomy used as a paradigm for relations between colonizers and their erstwhile subjects in this collection of critical interventions. Focussing on India and its diaspora(s) in western industrialized nations and former British colonies, this volume engages with topics of centrality and/or peripherality, particularly in the context of Anglophone Indian writing; the Indian languages; Indian film as art and popular culture; cross-cultural Shakespeare; diasporic pedagogy; and transcultural identity.

Author : Jill Didur
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 8131712982

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Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory by Jill Didur Pdf

Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997193

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Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai Pdf

In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.

Author : Marian Eide
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813942360

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Terrible Beauty by Marian Eide Pdf

If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of the South African Market Theater, writers have married beauty and horror. This "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the great literature of the twentieth century. The "violent aesthetic"—a category the author traces back to Plato and Nietzsche—accommodates the pleasure people take not only in destruction itself but also in its rendering. As readers, we oscillate between a fascination with atrocity and an ethical imperative to bear witness. Arguing for the immersive experience of literature as particularly conducive to ethical contemplation, Marian Eide plumbs the aesthetic power and ethical purpose of this creative tension. By invoking the reader as complicit—both stricken witness and enthralled voyeur— Terrible Beauty sheds new light on the relationship between violence, literature, and the moral burdens of art.

Author : Carol Frieze,Jeria L. Quesenberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108497428

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Cracking the Digital Ceiling by Carol Frieze,Jeria L. Quesenberry Pdf

A global examination of what influences women's participation in computing and what can be done to fix the gender gap.

Author : Lava Asaad,Fayeza Hasanat
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978830233

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In the Crossfire of History by Lava Asaad,Fayeza Hasanat Pdf

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. In the Crossfire of History:Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that erase women’s role in shaping resistance movements. The transformative mode of these examples expands the definition of heroism and defiance. To prevent these types of heroism from slipping into the abyss of history, this collection brings forth and celebrates women’s fortitude in conflict zones. In the Crossfire of History shines a light onwomen across the globe who are resisting the sociopolitical and economic injustices in their nation-states.

Author : Wenying Xu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538157329

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Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater by Wenying Xu Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors.