Bodies That Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry

by Anita Anantharam

Book Overview

Bodies That Remember explores the lives and works of four of the most recognized Hindu and Urdu female poets of the twentieth century. In contrast to much of the South Asian literary criticism and postcolonial theory that concentrates on the Indo-English novel, Anantharam highlights the poetry of these vernacular writers, connecting their critical voices with nationalist and religious revitalization movements in India and Pakistan.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632630
• ISBN13: 9780815632634
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"