Karma Sutra Essays From The Margin
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Karma Sutra Essays From The Margin
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Author : Rajendar Menen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Karma Sutra Essays From The Margin written by Rajendar Menen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with India categories.
Karma Sutra is about sex workers, Hijras, HIV/AIDS, Devadasis, drug addiction, runaways, the homeless, the dying and the abandoned on the Indian street. A first person account of the trauma and the triumph of those destined to spend their entire lives on the other side of the boulevard. The book is raw, heroic, gripping and tragic.
Foucault And The Kamasutra
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Author : Sanjay K. Gautam
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-06-22
Foucault And The Kamasutra written by Sanjay K. Gautam and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-22 with Education categories.
Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself.
Streetside
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Author : Rajendar Menen
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2022-12-24
Streetside written by Rajendar Menen and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I phoned a friend, Rajendar Menen, a journalist who is also a student of Mumbai. He is also unusually resourceful and has many contacts. He took me to the Kamathipura area, where the brothels were. At that time, he was writing extensively on AIDS research. We entered a brothel. A girl in her early teens came out of an inner room and greeted Rajen with unqualified puppy-like affection. She rubbed her head against Rajen’s hip, speaking in giggles and whispers. “Even so early in the day, they get clients,” Rajen said. “She’s ready for work.” As we left, the girl started to cry, and was pulled away by an older woman. He waved a hand at the girl who, though the older woman was trying to comfort her, was crying in brief, violent bursts, like a child. “Once I gave her a doll,” he confided. “Perhaps I shouldn’t have done that.” --- Dom Moraes, in Out of God’s Oven The cast is eclectic: kidnappers, aghoris, tantrics, pimps, hustlers, scammers, mafia dons, drug dealers, sea dogs, whoremasters, maalsihwallahs, tattoo artists, hucksters, traffickers, anarchists, wasters, psychics, spiritualists, honey trappers, chiselers, and simple, God-fearing, hardworking everyday folk trying to eke out their karmas as honestly as their circumstances would allow. The book is raw, pulsating, gripping, provocative and electric. It takes you to a world rarely traversed. Unputdownable!
Collected Essays
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Author : Hanif Kureishi
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-03-03
Collected Essays written by Hanif Kureishi and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film : race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situation. In the ensuing decades, he has developed these initial ideas, especially as the issue of Islam's relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of the time. Kureishi shows how flexible a form the essay can be - as intellectual as Sontag or Adam Phillips, as informal and casual as Max Beerbohm, as cool and minimalist as Joan Didion, or as provocative as Norman Mailer. As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times.
Reading The Kamasutra
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Reading The Kamasutra written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Sleeping With The Dictionary
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Author : Harryette Mullen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-02-22
Sleeping With The Dictionary written by Harryette Mullen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-22 with Poetry categories.
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."
Tangut Language And Manuscripts An Introduction
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Author : Jinbo Shi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-08
Tangut Language And Manuscripts An Introduction written by Jinbo Shi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction to the Tangut script, grammar and manuscripts, which lay the foundation of historical narratives of Western Xia.
The Selected Correspondence Of Kenneth Burke And Malcolm Cowley 1915 1981
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Author : Kenneth Burke
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
The Selected Correspondence Of Kenneth Burke And Malcolm Cowley 1915 1981 written by Kenneth Burke and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This portrays an extraordinary literary friendship, unique in American letters for its longevity, and it chronicles the lives and events that helped shape modern literature and criticism.
The Mahabharata Patriline
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Author : Simon Pearse Brodbeck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Mahabharata Patriline written by Simon Pearse Brodbeck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Religion categories.
The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family. The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell.
The Clique
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Clique written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Rare books categories.