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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
AvRajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 496 kr
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Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities.This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
AvChitra Sankaran
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 292 kr
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In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.
Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
AvChitra Sankaran
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
594 kr
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In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.
Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives
AvChitra Sankaran
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 841 kr
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This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental humanities. The first book offering an important and relevant Asian perspective to this hitherto exclusively westcentric exchange, it focuses on one of the influential theoretical fields to emerge in recent years, ‘material ecocriticism,’ which engages with the mind/matter value-dualism. Ecomaterialists have challenged the binary that places ‘mind’ on the active, agentic side while pushing ‘matter’ into inert passivity. This book enters this conversation from the Hindu and Buddhist philosophical perspectives and offers insights from Asian cultural beliefs and faith systems. The concept of panpsychism, as it has recently emerged in astrophysics, and the idea of a Universal Consciousness (Brahman, Nirvana, Tao) in Eastern philosophies, despite their differing approaches and objectives, display interesting overlaps that require further exploration. Parallelly, the idea of an agentic Nature as found in Samkhya philosophy, common to Hinduism and Buddhism, challenges the active-mind/inert-matter binary and further qualifies ecomaterialist perspectives. The text undertakes an analysis of an exclusively Asian (i.e., South and Southeast) corpus, where these ideas emerge.This book investigates the complex, ambivalent approach to nonhuman Nature in South and Southeast Asian literary, cultural, and religious narratives to argue that a utilitarian attitude to nature is complicated by a tacit or strong belief in its autonomy and agency.
Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives
AvChitra Sankaran
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2026
935 kr
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This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental humanities. The first book offering an important and relevant Asian perspective to this hitherto exclusively westcentric exchange, it focuses on one of the influential theoretical fields to emerge in recent years, 'material ecocriticism,' which engages with the mind/matter value-dualism. Ecomaterialists have challenged the binary that places 'mind' on the active, agentic side while pushing 'matter' into inert passivity. This book enters this conversation from the Hindu and Buddhist philosophical perspectives and offers insights from Asian cultural beliefs and faith systems. The concept of panpsychism, as it has recently emerged in astrophysics, and the idea of a Universal Consciousness (Brahman, Nirvana, Tao) in Eastern philosophies, despite their differing approaches and objectives, display interesting overlaps that require further exploration. Parallelly, the idea of an agentic Nature as found in Samkhya philosophy, common to Hinduism and Buddhism, challenges the active-mind/inert-matter binary and further qualifies ecomaterialist perspectives. The text undertakes an analysis of an exclusively Asian (i.e., South and Southeast) corpus, where these ideas emerge. This book investigates the complex, ambivalent approach to nonhuman Nature in South and Southeast Asian literary, cultural, and religious narratives to argue that a utilitarian attitude to nature is complicated by a tacit or strong belief in its autonomy and agency.
Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives
AvChitra Sankaran
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
935 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental humanities. The first book offering an important and relevant Asian perspective to this hitherto exclusively westcentric exchange, it focuses on one of the influential theoretical fields to emerge in recent years, 'material ecocriticism,' which engages with the mind/matter value-dualism. Ecomaterialists have challenged the binary that places 'mind' on the active, agentic side while pushing 'matter' into inert passivity. This book enters this conversation from the Hindu and Buddhist philosophical perspectives and offers insights from Asian cultural beliefs and faith systems. The concept of panpsychism, as it has recently emerged in astrophysics, and the idea of a Universal Consciousness (Brahman, Nirvana, Tao) in Eastern philosophies, despite their differing approaches and objectives, display interesting overlaps that require further exploration. Parallelly, the idea of an agentic Nature as found in Samkhya philosophy, common to Hinduism and Buddhism, challenges the active-mind/inert-matter binary and further qualifies ecomaterialist perspectives. The text undertakes an analysis of an exclusively Asian (i.e., South and Southeast) corpus, where these ideas emerge. This book investigates the complex, ambivalent approach to nonhuman Nature in South and Southeast Asian literary, cultural, and religious narratives to argue that a utilitarian attitude to nature is complicated by a tacit or strong belief in its autonomy and agency.
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
AvRajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
569 kr
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Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities.This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
AvChitra Sankaran,Rajesh Rai
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
644 kr
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Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities.
This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
AvChitra Sankaran,Rajesh Rai
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
644 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities.
This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies
AvHelen Tiffin,Jose Monfred C. Sym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
575 kr
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Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies
Histories, Myths and Societies
AvHelen Tiffin,Jose Monfred C. Sym. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
441 kr
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Myth Connections
The Use of Hindu Myths and Philosophies in R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao- (Enlarged with «The Myth Connection»)
AvChitra Sankaran
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 463 kr
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This book is a comparative study of four novels respectively of Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan. Sourcing original works in Sanskrit and Tamil, this study attempts to tease out the similarities in themes and the common concern with traditional Hindu motifs and patterns that underlie these narratives, to reveal these authors’ engagement with various aspects of Hinduism, from the ‘ontological quest’ at its centre to the more contentious caste system. The novels examined are Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare and The Chessmaster and His Moves and R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Mr Sampath, The Guide and The Painter of Signs. In the study, the terms ‘mythology’ and ‘philosophies’ include not just the legends and stories of the ancient texts and the associated philosophies, but a whole corpus of social attitudes these generate.
History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction
AvChitra Sankaran
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
452 kr
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Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction, but has consistently dealt with the dislocations, violence, and meetings of peoples and cultures engendered by colonialism.The essays in this volume analyze Ghosh's novels in ways that yield new insights into concepts central to postcolonial and transnational studies, making important intertextual connections and foregrounding links to prevailing theoretical and speculative scholarship. The work's introduction argues that irony is central to Ghosh's vision and discusses the importance of the concepts of "testimony" and "history" to Ghosh's narratives. An invaluable interview with Amitav Ghosh discusses individual works and the author's overall philosophy.
History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction
AvChitra Sankaran
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 250 kr
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Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction, but has consistently dealt with the dislocations, violence, and meetings of peoples and cultures engendered by colonialism.The essays in this volume analyze Ghosh's novels in ways that yield new insights into concepts central to postcolonial and transnational studies, making important intertextual connections and foregrounding links to prevailing theoretical and speculative scholarship. The work's introduction argues that irony is central to Ghosh's vision and discusses the importance of the concepts of "testimony" and "history" to Ghosh's narratives. An invaluable interview with Amitav Ghosh discusses individual works and the author's overall philosophy.

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Chitra Sankaran – författare

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies

Myth Connections

History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction

History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction

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