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OverviewMarian Aguiar analyzes arranged marriage as atransnational cultural phenomenon, revealing how its meaning has beencontinuously reinvented within the South Asian diaspora of Britain, the UnitedStates, and Canada. She advocates situating arranged marriage discourses withintheir social and material contexts to see past reductive notions of culture andgrasp the global forces mediating increasingly polarized visions of agency. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marian AguiarPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816689484ISBN 10: 0816689482 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 02 January 2018 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsWith this timely and interesting book, Marian Aguiar locates arranged marriage on a spectrum between coercion and choice, against the tendency to read it off at the two extremes. By contextualizing it historically and geographically she shows us how arranged marriage has changed over time and according to place. --Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University A timely feminist intervention in the Orientalized preoccupations with arranged marriage in the West, Marian Aguiar has given us a lucid and fresh account of arranged marriage, taking readers through the concept's transnational circuits. The rich archive assembled here--literature, film, court cases, state documents--is sure to unsettle preconceived Western notions of arranged marriages. What follows is a measured, insightful commentary on questions of consent and agency, but also labor, migration, state power, and national belonging. --Jyoti Puri, Simmons College Author InformationMarian Aguiar is associate professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility (Minnesota, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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