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Politics of the Possible : Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English

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Author : Kumkum Sangari

9788185229454 | PB | pp. 556 | 2020 | Tulika Books

This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture and much more to create a true ‘politics of the possible’.

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This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture and much more to create a true ‘politics of the possible’. Broadly emphasizing forms, ideologies and class relations, Sangari’s essays crisscross and cohere around several themes: the politics of social location and the connection between local, metropolitan and colonial geographies as they bear on debates about the nature of knowledge; the transnational and regional production of ideologies such as altruism under the aegis of colonialism; ways of theorizing women’s labour, literacy and consent to patriarchal arrangements and dominant ideologies. Sangari’s analysis of Indian English and the relationships between ‘literature’ and the non-literary change the way we consider the divisions between the metropolitan and the sub-continental. In her discussion of capitalism and colonialism, her egalitarian feminist viewpoint opens up and questions issues of cultural autonomy and hybridity. She also critiques the impact of race, caste, class, religion and misogyny on patriarchal ideology and its effect on women.The ‘politics of the possible’ mapped by these essays presents itself in several areas: as a more sensitive feminist historiography; as the social potential for secular activity in seemingly impossible situations; in the historical possibilities that were offered by situations not doomed to inevitable outcomes; and as the elements of resistance produced by the contradictions of different structures of oppression.

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Author:

Kumkum Sangari
ISBN:

9788185229454
Publisher:

Tulika Books
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

556
Year of Publication:

2020
Edition:

Second
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Kumkum Sangari is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

She has been a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, Delhi University and Jadavpur University; and a Visiting Professor at University of Chicago, Central European University, University of London (SOAS), University of Erfurt and Ambedkar University.

Dr. Sangari has published extensively on British, American and Indian literature, the gendering of South Asian medieval devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as M.K.Gandhi, Bombay cinema, televisual memory, feminist art practice, and several contemporary gender issues such as personal law, widow immolation, domestic labour, the beauty industry, son selection, commercial surrogacy, and communal violence.

She is the author of Solid Liquid: A Transnational Reproductive Formation (2015) and has co-edited several books including Recasting Women and, most recently, Arc Silt Dive: The Works of Sheba Chhachhi (2016) and Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima Sheikh (2013).

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