Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Anthem Press, London, England, 2004

1843310333 / 9781843310334

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202 pp. Part of the series Anthem South Asian Studies. "In this challenging and wide-ranging new collection, the edtors have assembled some of the best new writing on physicality in modern India. Providing a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. CONFRONTING THE BODY includes new research by established and up-and-coming writers in the social sciences and humanities." - back cover. Includes the following essays: "Body, Text, Nation: Writing the Physically Fit Body in Post-Colonial India" by Joseph S. Alter; "A Parcel of Dummies'? Sport and the Body in Indian History" by Paul Dimeo; "Schools, Athletes and Confrontation: The Student Body in Colonial India" by Satadru Sen; "Body as Target, Violence as Treatment: Psychiatric Regimes in Colonial and Post-Colonial India" by James H. Mills; "The Lotah Emeutes of 1855: Caste, Religion and Prisons in North India in the Early Nineteenth Century" by Anand A. Yang; "The Body at Work: Colonial Art Education and the Figure of the 'Native Craftsman'" by Dedpali Dewan; "Making a Dravidian Hero: The Body and Identity Politics in the Dravidian Movement" by Nimmi Rangaswamy; "Describing the Body: The Writing of Sex and Gender Identity for the Contemporary Bengali Woman" by Srimati Basu; "A Perfect 10 - 'Modern and Indian': Representation of the Body in Beauty Pageants and the Visual Media in Contemporary India" by Shoma Munshi; "Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle-Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1902-1940s" by Sanjam Ahluwalia.

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Titolo
Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Autore
Mills, James H. (ed.); Sen, Satadru (ed.)
Editore
Anthem Press, London, England
Anno di pubblicazione
2004
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
No Jacket
Rilegatura
Soft cover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1843310333
ISBN 13
9781843310334
Dimensioni
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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