Haunting Bombay

Author : Shilpa Agarwal
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569477083

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Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal Pdf

This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller is “[an] intriguing debut [that] seeks to give voice to the dispossessed through the supernatural” (USA Today). After her mother’s death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition, baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother, Maji, the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old, Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. While she has never really been accepted by her uncle’s family, she has always had Maji’s love. One day, as monsoons engulf the city, Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door, unleashing the ghosts of an infant who drowned shortly before Pinky’s arrival and of the nursemaid who cared for the child. Now, three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame, forbidden love, and a call for absolute sacrifice. “In her stunning debut novel Shilpa Agarwal takes on the ghosts that bedevil young Pinky Mittal’s extended family and dispatches them with rambunctious wit and affection. The result is like finely wrought mirror work, a glittering tapestry of vibrant contradictions, characters, and mysteries. Haunting Bombay flirts deliciously with the true spirit of India.” —Aimee Liu, author of Flash House “Will definitely appeal to fans of Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri. . . . Fresh, original.” —Library Journal

Author : Shilpa Agarwal
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569475584

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As the supernatural weaves into the narrative of family life, the Mittals must struggle to come to terms with the secrets that had been locked away behind a mysterious bolted door. Themes of hidden shame, forbidden love and a call for absolute sacrifice enrich this beautifully written novel. Agarwal unfolds the story against an intense portrait of Bombay, delving into the world of the slum-dwellers, prostitutes and hermaphrodites who survive on the peripheries of Indian society.

Author : Jameela Siddiqi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411698901

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Bombay Gardens by Jameela Siddiqi Pdf

The story of smalltime Ugandan Indian landlord Naranbhai, who likes to think big-big -- big house, big business schemes, two wives -- unfolds when two strangers, who share a childhood fairy tale, meet thirty years after the Asian Expulsion

Author : Becky Siegel Spratford
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780838911129

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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror by Becky Siegel Spratford Pdf

Vampires, zombies, ghosts, and ghoulies: there are more things going bump in the night than ever. So how do you wend your way through all of them to find the ones that interest a particular reader? RA expert Spratford updates her advisory to include the latest in monsters and the macabre, including Lists of recommended titles, authors, and sub-genres, all cross-referenced for quick reference Tips for effectively practicing horror RA, with interview questions for gauging a reader’s interests An expanded resources section, with an overview addressing the current state of horror lit, and suggestions of how to dig deeperAs both an introductory guide for librarians just dipping their toes into the brackish water of scary fiction, as well as a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff, Spratford’s book is infernally appropriate.

Author : Wester Maisha Wester
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440950

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Twenty-First-Century Gothic by Wester Maisha Wester Pdf

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approachCovers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin's The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante's Cove (2005-7), Hemlock Grove (2013-15), Penny Dreadful (2014-16) Black Mirror (2011-) and even the Slenderman mythos.This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters - including zombies, vampires and werewolves - and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.

Author : Aparajita De,Amrita Ghosh,Ujjwal Jana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443836944

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Subaltern Vision by Aparajita De,Amrita Ghosh,Ujjwal Jana Pdf

""Ever since the Gramscian notion of the subaltern became the lynch-pin of the counter-hegemonic project developed by the Subaltern Studies group in the early 1980s, attempts to give voice to India's unrepresented or under-represented classes have played a

Author : Kamini Mathai
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780670083718

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A.R. Rahman by Kamini Mathai Pdf

Includes discography (p. 250-258) and index.

Author : Wenying Xu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810855779

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

Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent decades, there has been an exponential growth in their output and much Asian American literature has now achieved new levels of popular success and critical acclaim. Nurtured by rich and long literary traditions from the vast continent of Asia, this literature is poised between the ancient and the modern, between the East and West, and between the oral and the written. The Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater covers the activities in this burgeoning field. First, its history is traced year by year from 1887 to the present, in a chronology, and the introduction provides a good overview. The most important section is the dictionary, with over 600 substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the historical background, cultural features, techniques and major theatres and clubs. More reading can be found through an extensive bibliography with general works and those on specific authors. The book is thus a good place to get started, or to expanded one's horizons, about a branch of American literature that can only grow in importance.

Author : Daniel Brook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393089240

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A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook Pdf

"[An] inspired tour of the post modern city…Invigorating." —Mark Kingwell, Harper’s Hailed as an “original and fascinating book” (Times Literary Supplement), A History of Future Cities is Daniel Brook’s captivating investigation of four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—that sought to catapult themselves into the future by emulating the West.

Author : Prabhat K. Singh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443852142

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The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium by Prabhat K. Singh Pdf

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001–2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature.

Author : Meheli Sen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477311608

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Haunting Bollywood by Meheli Sen Pdf

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses this gap by focusing on some of Hindi cinema's least explored genres. From Gothic ghost films of the 1950s to snake films of the 1970s and 1980s to today's globally influenced zombie and vampire films, Meheli Sen delves into what the supernatural is and the varied modalities through which it raises questions of film form, history, modernity, and gender in South Asian public cultures. Arguing that the supernatural is dispersed among multiple genres and constantly in conversation with global cinematic forms, she demonstrates that it is an especially malleable impulse that routinely pushes Hindi film into new formal and stylistic territories. Sen also argues that gender is a particularly accommodating stage on which the supernatural rehearses its most basic compulsions; thus, the interface between gender and genre provides an exceptionally productive lens into Hindi cinema's negotiation of the modern and the global. Haunting Bollywood reveals that the supernatural's unruly energies continually resist containment, even as they partake of and sometimes subvert Hindi cinema's most enduring pleasures, from songs and stars to myth and melodrama.

Author : Katarzyna Ancuta
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786838018

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South Asian Gothic by Katarzyna Ancuta Pdf

This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures. Gothic in South Asia can be read as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated, translated, transformed or resisted. The volume investigates South Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of the transnational category of globalgothic, contributing to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant in the culturally-diverse modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106017989127

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0143029576

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Truth, Love and a Little Malice by Khushwant Singh Pdf

Khuswant on Khuswant is irresistable... such is his skill as a writer, simple, lucid, unpretentious, This book has been well worth the wait. India today

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0142002348

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Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Pdf

Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.