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Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1600850030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shamita Das Dasgupta
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813525181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Patchwork Shawl sheds light on the lives of a segment of the U.S. immigrant population that has long been relegated to the margins. It focuses on women's lives that span different worlds: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the United States. This collection of essays by and about South Asian women in America challenges stereotypes by allowing women to speak in their own words. Together they provide discerning insights into the reconstruction of immigrant patriarchy in a new world, and the development of women's resistance to that reconstruction. Shamita Das DasGupta's introduction also acquaints readers with the psychological topography of the South Asian community. A Patchwork Shawl considers topics from re-negotiation of identity to sexuality, violence to intimacy, occupations to organizing within the community. The essays bear witness to women's negotiations for independent identities, their claim to their own bodies, and the right to choose relationships based on their own histories and truths. They bring new understanding to the intersection of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and class.
Author: Sheldon Oberman
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781590783320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A prayer shawl is handed down from grandfather to grandson in this story of Jewish tradition and the passage of generations.
Author: Ian Gregson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-13
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1847142133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its key images depict the human as reduced to the status of an object, an animal or a machine, or the human body as dismembered to represent the fragmentation of the human spirit. Gregson argues that this return to caricature is symptomatic of a satirical attitude to the self which is particularly characteristic of contemporary culture.
Author: Frances Eleanor Trollope
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alice Starmore
Publisher: Dover Crafts: Knitting
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486478425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised, expanded edition of expert guide encompasses a history of Aran knitting; complete workshop in technique and design; 60 charted patterns for the original 14 designs, many reknit in contemporary yarns; including a new design. Color photographs.
Author: H. Cole
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-05-17
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 338250734X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.