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This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity
formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with
crucial questions such as: What models are shaping our view of
ourselves and the society in which we live? What images ground our
perception of what is true and real? How have the images been
historically produced? What are the effects of such models on
definitions of self? Should we break free from these images if we
get to know what they are? Is it possible to change our models in
order to create freer identities? Through a range of distinctive
lenses, the essays in the volume deals with the ideas of the
'liminal self', the 'digital self', 'identities in flux', and
offers up 'anthropologies of self/selves' that situates current
identity processes within their cultures and explores strategies
and dilemmas from this perspective. This key volume will be of
interest to scholars and researchers of literary stories, critical
theory, social theory, social anthropology, philosophy, and
political philosophy.
This volume: * Brings together scholarly insights from Europe,
Asia, and Africa * Inter-disciplinary in scope
This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of
social and political transformation across communities and
cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the
structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs,
slogans, poetry and performances. The chapters in the book explore
these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture,
politics, beliefs and the collective society - via music and poetry
as in the Bhakti movement or through feministic theories born in
post-World War Europe. It also explores how these dynamic movements
generate alternate spaces within which the self, identity and
collective purpose take new forms and find new meanings as they
travel. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
the humanities, literature, history, sociology, politics and
culture studies.
This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of
social and political transformation across communities and
cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the
structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs,
slogans, poetry and performances. The chapters in the book explore
these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture,
politics, beliefs and the collective society - via music and poetry
as in the Bhakti movement or through feministic theories born in
post-World War Europe. It also explores how these dynamic movements
generate alternate spaces within which the self, identity and
collective purpose take new forms and find new meanings as they
travel. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
the humanities, literature, history, sociology, politics and
culture studies.
As a member of an uprooted family settled after partition of the
country, on the other side of the border, the author in her book
reflects on the pain, fear, embarrassment, sympathy, and affection
of people who have been left to themselves yet, inspired by their
own determination, have walked myriad journeys to become leading
lights in their own ways.
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