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Literature Against Fundamentalism
Av Tabish Khair
Häftad, 2024
261 kr
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are distinctive …
Literature Against Fundamentalism
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2024
244 kr
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking ''devices'' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are …
Literature Against Fundamentalism
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2024
244 kr
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking ''devices'' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are …
Other Routes
1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
Av Tabish Khair, Justin D Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
284 kr
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". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." —Simon GikandiOther Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair …
Filming
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two-times star of the silver screen. As these stories …
Thing About Thugs
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2012
38 kr
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A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous …
Filming
Av Tabish Khair
Häftad, 2012
217 kr
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Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two-times star of the silver screen. As these stories …
Bus Stopped
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2012
141 kr
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A very angry bus driver, abandoned by his wife and going nowhere in his career; a sanctimonious conductor; a hijra, or eunuch, a remnant of India's Muslim glory days; a nervous, half-Indian businessman clutching a briefcase-full of cash; a right-wing Hindu matriarch; a young boy returning to his …
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi, his incorrigible best friend and a wry observer of the human condition; and Karim, their fundamentalist Muslim …
Thing About Thugs
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous …
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
A Novel
Av Tabish Khair
E-bok, 2014
173 kr
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A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani …
Namaste Trump and Other Stories
Av Tabish Khair
Häftad, 2023
210 kr
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The short story 'Namaste Trump' starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. …
Body by the Shore
Av Tabish Khair
Häftad, 2022
210 kr
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Harris Maloub, a killer with an erased official past, now in his fifties, is visited by someone who could not be alive and given an assignment. In Aarhus, Denmark, Jens Erik, police officer on pre-retirement leave, somehow cannot forget the body of a Black man recovered from the sea some years ago. …
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Av Tabish Khair
Inbunden, 2013
338 kr
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