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Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Gayatri Devi

Introduction GAYATRI DEVI AND NAJAT RAHMAN 1.Humor, Loss,and the Possibility for Politics in Recent PalestinianCinema NAJAT RAHMAN 2. Strategies of Subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: Allegory and Satire inMoncef Dhouib's The TV Is ...
The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book.
The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words

Sangeeta Ray

This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them.
Devi, the Mother-Goddess: An Introduction

Devi, the Mother-Goddess: An Introduction

Devdutt Pattanaik

This book includes tales of Adi-Maya-Shakti, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Parvati, Kali, Durga as well as several village-goddesses such as Kanyakumari, Vaishnav-devi, Bahucharmata and heroines such as Anasuya, Arundhati and Savitri.
Death of a Discipline

Death of a Discipline

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In declaring the death of comparative literature as we know it Gayatri Spivak draws attention to the need for a 'new' comparative literature untainted, and not appropriated by, the infernal machinations of globalization and the so-called ...
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics

In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.
The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and ...

The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and ...

Nischala Joy Devi

Devi’s simple, elegant, and deeply personal interpretations capture the spirit of each sutra, and her suggested practices offer numerous ways to embrace the spirituality of Yoga throughout your day From the Trade Paperback edition.
Yoga Journal

Yoga Journal

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A Feminine Critique Nischala Joy Devi explores the emotional and spiritual wisdom of the Yoga Sutra. AS A YOUNG WOMAN, in 1973, Nischala Joy Devi took leave of her American dream— complete with a house and a career as a ...
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The world's most renowned critical theorist—who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has radically reoriented her thinking.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Stephen Morton

This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time.
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh.
Hindu devī devatā

Hindu devī devatā

Manju Gupta

A Coffee Table Book Containing Photographs Of The Hindi God And Godessess With Their Artist In Roman Script. All 4 Colour And Printed On Art Paper.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory

Mark Sanders

This book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice, with deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and issues of postcoloniality and globalization.
American Yoga: The Paths and Practices of America's Greatest ...

American Yoga: The Paths and Practices of America's Greatest ...

Carrie Schneider

The masters profiled here represent radically different styles, from the exuberance of Rodney Yee to the quiet contemplativeness of Nischala Joy Devi.
The Healing Path of Yoga: Time-Honored Wisdom and ...

The Healing Path of Yoga: Time-Honored Wisdom and ...

Nischala Joy Devi

This book will make yoga a fundamental part of your quest for wellness and well-being, whether you are a novice or a current pactitioner.
Outside in the Teaching Machine

Outside in the Teaching Machine

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx.
Through the roadblocks: Realities in raw motion - Conference ...

Through the roadblocks: Realities in raw motion - Conference ...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

For an elaboration of the conditions for people living in Cyprus see: Foreword in this Reader by Yiannis Colakides (NeMe). 6. “Breaking our Eggs without the Omelette, from Cyprus to Greece”, in What Does Europe Want: the Union and its  ...
Selected Subaltern Studies

Selected Subaltern Studies

Ranajit Guha

This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a ...
Devī: Goddesses of India

Devī: Goddesses of India

John Stratton Hawley

Rachel Fell McDermott This . . . is . . . an invitation to all women to join in the search to find out who we really are, by beginning to know our past heritage as more than a broken and buried fragment of male culture. ' I believe that Hinduism does ...
10 Judgements That Changed India

10 Judgements That Changed India

Zia Mody

How did Bhanwari Devi’s Rape help define sexual harassment at the workplace? Here are the Supreme Court's ten pivotal judgements that have transformed Indian democracy and redefined our daily, lives.
The 1970s and Its Legacies in India's Cinemas

The 1970s and Its Legacies in India's Cinemas

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Ed. Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 55–68. Print. Gopinath, Gayatri. “Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema.” Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade. Ed. Andrew Grossman.
Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses

Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses

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The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists ...
For the Love of God:

For the Love of God:

Jane Thompson (Sri Devi)

Whatever your religious beliefs, you'll find For the Love of God rich in personal experiences, full of compelling sincerity, delightful wit, and endearing devotion.
Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing ...

Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing ...

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Dharma Productions, 2008. Gopinath, Gayatri (2000). “Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema.” QueerAsian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade. (Ed.) Andrew Grossman. New York: Harrington Park Press, 283–299.
The Bollywood Reader

The Bollywood Reader

Dudrah, Rajinder

Gopinath, Gayatri (2000) 'Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema' in Andrew Grossman ecl. 'Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade', Special Issue of journal ofHomosexuality, 39, 3 & 4, pp.283—297.
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak

The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Spivak

Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading.

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