{"product_id":"mapping-south-asian-masculinities-chandrima-chakraborty-9781138061613","title":"Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first substantial critical examination of men and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by critical historical events, events which have redrawn maps and remapped or unmapped bodies with different effects. These include colonialism, anti-colonialism, state formations, civil wars, religious conflicts, and migration. Political crisis functions as a framing device to offer nuances and clarifications to the assumed visibility of male bodies and male activities during political crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe focus on masculinities in historical moments of crisis divests masculinity of its naturalization and calls for a heterogeneous conceptualization of the everyday practices and experiences of 'being a man.' Written by scholars from a variety of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, and drawing on a range of written and visual texts, this book contributes to this recent rethinking of South Asian literary and cultural history by engaging masculinity as a historicized category of analysis that accommodates an understanding of history as differentiated encounters among bodies, cultures, and nations. This book was originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian History and Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chandrima Chakraborty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138061611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138061613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Chandrima Chakraborty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113264328959,"sku":"9781138061613","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81de2f03-d5f1-42ab-9f46-66d0a1d89375.jpg?v=1769613964","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mapping-south-asian-masculinities-chandrima-chakraborty-9781138061613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}