Andrea A. Davis, Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation (Northwestern UP, 2022) In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as […]
Keith Weiser, Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, eds. Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism (Palgrave, 2021) This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or geography. It promotes conversation […]
Chakraborty, Kabita. Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, identity and changing youth culture. Routledge, 2015.
Published in 2007 (TSAR Press), Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema ("Bollywood"). The wide-ranging analytic strategies in the collection--including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic contextualization, and biographic study--bear witness to Hindi cinema's aesthetically elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial concerns. Together, these essays […]
Published in 2003 (Arsenal Pulp), Desilicious: Sexy. Subversive. South Asian. is a collection of contemporary erotic writing by South Asian writers--typically young adults. The collection challenges polarized stereotypes of South Asian peoples as either hypersexual inheritors of the Kama Sutra or repressed victims of arranged marriages. The collection explores a range of culturally-mediated engagements with […]
Published in 2000, Bolo! Bolo! includes original poetry, prose fiction and narrative essays from over fifty "second-generation" South Asian Canadians and South Asian Americans. The collection's title, a Hindi colloquialism for "share your story," addressed the early paucity of diasporic literature available at the time by South Asian children and young people. Bolo! Bolo! focused […]
Bernard Lightman, Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle. The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Cecchetto, David, ed. Something Other than Lifedeath—Catalyst: S.D. Chrostowska. Victoria/Seattle: Noxious Sector Press, 2018. 132 pp. With contributions by Louis Bury, Anita Chari, Ted Hiebert, Anneleen Masschelein, Gerhard Richter, and Patrick Seniuk.