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Author:   Chandrima Chakraborty (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138890510

ISBN 10:   1138890510
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   27 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction - Mapping South Asian masculinities: men and political crises Section I: The Past and the Present 1. Uncles of the nation: avuncular masculinity in partition-era politics 2. Valour, violence and the ethics of struggle: constructing militant masculinities in Sri Lanka 3. Once were warriors: the militarized state in narrating the past 4. Limp wrists, inflammatory punches: violence, masculinity, and queer sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy 5. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s dying men Section II: Migratory Routes 6. Recuperating Indian masculinity: Mohandas Gandhi, war and the Indian diaspora in South Africa (1899–1914) 7. ‘My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist’: disability and asexuality in My Name is Khan 8. Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: the tragedy versus the comedy 9. ‘Bling-bling economics’ and the cultural politics of masculinity in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani

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Chandrima Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on Indian nationalism, gender, and memory. Publications include, Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India (2011), a Feature Section in Topia on the 1985 Air India bombings, and The Art of Public Mourning: Remembering Air India (forthcoming).

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