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UNINA9910452872503321 |
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Titolo |
Everyday life in South Asia / / edited by Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2010 |
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[Second edition, New edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (581 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LambSarah <1960-> |
MinesDiane P. <1960-> |
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Islam and culture |
Electronic books. |
South Asia Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-543) and index. |
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One straw from a broom cannot sweep : the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Susan S. Wadley -- Allah gives both boys and girls / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- "Out here in Kathmandu" : youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal / Mark Liechty -- Rethinking courtship, marriage, and divorce in an Indian call center / Cari Costanzo Kapur -- Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb -- New light in the house : schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Roadwork : offstage with Special Drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India / Susan Seizer -- Breadwinners no more : identities in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Life on the margins : a hijra's story / Serena Nanda -- Crossing "lines" of difference : transnational movements and sexual subjectivities in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy -- Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system -- God-chariots in a garden of castes : hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / Steven M. Parish -- High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine -- Weakness, worry illness, and poverty in the slums of Dhaka / Sabina Faiz Rashid -- Anjali's alliance : class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey -- Recasting the secular : religion and education in Kerala, India / Ritty Lukose -- The Hindu gods in a South Indian village / Diane P. Mines -- The Feast of Love / McKim Marriott -- The delusion of gender |
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and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Kim Gutschow -- Muslim village intellectuals : the life of the mind in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- In friendship : a father, a daughter, and a jinn / Naveeda Khan -- Vernacular Islam at a healing crossroads in Hyderabad / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Voices from the partition / Urvashi Butalia -- A day in the life / Laura Ring -- Living and dying for Mother India : Hindu nationalist female renouncers and sacred duty / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- Political praise in Tamil newspapers : the poetry and iconography of democratic power / Bernard Bate -- Mala's dream : economic policies, national debates, and Sri Lankan garment workers / Caitrin Lynch -- Interviews with high school students in eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick -- Cinema in the countryside : popular Tamil film and the remaking of rural life / Anand Pandian -- Dangerous desires : erotics, public culture, and identity in late-twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar -- A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman -- British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall -- Examining the "global" Indian middle class : gender and culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit / Smitha Radhakrishnan -- Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan -- Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel. |
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This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth c |
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UNINA9910808697703321 |
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Autore |
Wootten William |
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The Alvarez generation : Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter / / William Wootten [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015 |
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1-78138-489-4 |
1-78138-760-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I; Chapter One: Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge Poetry in the Early 1950s; Chapter Two: Violent Times: Anti-Movement Poetry in the Mid to Late 1950s; Chapter Three: In Opposite Directions: A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn ; Chapter Four: Against Gentility; Chapter Five: On Being Serious; Chapter Six: Anthology-Making; Chapter Seven: First Reactions: The Review Debate and the Initial Response to The New Poetry ; PART II; Chapter Eight: Sylvia Plath ; PART III; Chapter Nine: Going to Extremes; Chapter Ten: 'A Study of Suicide'; PART IV |
Chapter Eleven: Against ExtremismChapter Twelve: Costing Seriousness; Chapter Thirteen: 'I Don't Like Dramatizing Myself' ; Chapter Fourteen: Birthday Letters; Chapter Fifteen: Geoffrey Hill's New Poetry; Chapter Sixteen: Children of The New Poetry; Bibliography; Index |
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This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical |
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reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a 'new seriousness' was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. |
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