Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anjali roy

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  • REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON INDIA'S PARTITION
    ANJALI GERA ROY
    This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. Building on existing research on Partition, the chapters present and analyse the consequences of Partition displacement and the resilience of communities in different parts o...

    $1,120.00

  • MEMORIES AND POSTMEMORIES OF THE PARTITION OF INDIA
    ANJALI ROY
    This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise ...

    $1,200.00

  • DIASPORAS AND TRANSNATIONALISMS
    ANJALI GERA ROY
    The Komagata Maru incident has become central to ongoing debates on Canadian racism, immigration, multiculturalism, citizenship and Indian nationalist resistance. The chapters presented in this book, written by established and emerging historians and scholars in literary, cultural, religious, immigration and diaspora studies, revisit the ship’s ill-fated journey to throw new li...

    $1,320.00

  • IMPERIALISM AND SIKH MIGRATION
    ANJALI ROY
    In the Punjab, Pakistan, a culture of migration and mobility already emerged in the nineteenth century. Imperial policies produced a category of hypermobile Sikhs, who left their villages in Punjab to seek their fortunes in South East Asia, Australia, America and Canada. The practices of the British Indian government and the Canada government offer telling instances of the exer...

    $1,200.00

  • IMAGINING PUNJAB, PUNJABI AND PUNJABIAT IN THE TRANSNATIONAL ERA
    ANJALI GERA ROY
    This book moves away from originary myths of region and identity that have dominated academic and mediatized representations of Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan after the Partition of 1947, and instead focuses on the role of the imagination in producing Punjab. It deconstructs Punjab as an ethno-spatial, ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural constru...

    $980.00

  • BHANGRA MOVES
    ANJALI GERA ROY
    Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at Bhangra's global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian subcontinent, to contribute to the understandin...

    $1,600.00

  • GLOBAL URBAN SPACES
    MADHUMITA ROY / ANJALI GERA ROY
    From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie’s fiction. This book focuses on spatial concerns and urban imaginaries in his works, challenging the dominant metropolitan discourse on cities under globalization. Rushdie’s works prominently feature cities of the Global South wh...

    $1,160.00