The politics of belonging in contemporary India : anxiety and intimacy /: anxiety and intimacy. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kaustav Chakraborty.
• Editors: Chakraborty, Kaustav
• Contents: List of contributors. Preface. ; Introduction : the politics of belonging: anxiety and intimacy. Kaustav Chakraborty Part I: Intimacy, marginality, and anxiety ; 1. Identification, belonging, and the category of Dalit. K. Satyanarayana 2. Emotions in the context of caste slavery: exploring the missionary writings on Kerala. P. Sanal Mohan 3. Nature and belonging: distance, development, and intimacy. R. Umamaheshwari Part II: Rethinking intimacy, contemporarity vis-à-vis the conventional institutions ; 4. Intimacy in Tamil kinship. Isabelle Clark-Decès 5. Reading queerness: same-sex marriages in India. Sayan Bhattacharya 6. Homes as conversions: literalising the metaphor of Ghar Wapsi. Arunima Paul Part III: Dissident body and belonging ; 7. Anti-caste communitas and outcaste experience: space, body, displacement, and writing. Dickens Leonard 8. Disability and intimacy in the making of Madurai Veeran. Shilpaa Anand Part IV: Space, vigilance, and getting intimate ; 9. The modern-day sex worker: the intimate ‘Other’ of intimacy and belonging. Chandni Mehta 10. Public spaces and private intimacies: the ‘Politics of Belonging’ in parks. Pranta Pratik Patnaik 11. Queer intimacies in the time of new media: when Grindr produces alternative cartographies. Silpa Mukherjee Part V: Textual belongings ; 12. Intimacy, belonging, and masculinity in Bhalachandra Nemade’s novel Kosla (Cocoon). Mangesh Kulkarni 13. Hesitant intimacy: North East Indian English poetry vis-à-vis the Indian nationhood. Sarat Kumar Doley Part VI: Techno intimacies ; 14. Maternal intimacies online: how Indian mom bloggers reconfigure self, body, family, and community. Sucharita Sarkar 15. Routing techno intimacy, risk, anxiety, and the ambient political. Geeta Patel ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.0954; Group identity -- India; Interpersonal relations -- India; Intimacy (Psychology); Minorities -- India -- Social conditions; Anxiety -- Social aspects -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000024302; 9781000024241; 9781000024272; 9780429295980
• Related ISBNs: 9781138562943; 9780367273071
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