...Lavinia Kumar Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LAVINIA KUMAR LuvThatI(itchen! Marjorie Stewart Joyner (1896-1994) Beauticianb, usinesswoman She was tired of straightening black hair, one slow stove-heated curling iron ata time. Still at night like any woman she cooked potroastpoked many...

... the latest news, telling her about Modi’s plans for this city that she lives in, a city that is so hot. But Rani goes to work in an air-conditioned bus. She is peeling potatoes and carrots so Kumar, her husband, can make sambar tonight. It is almost evening, and Rani is exhausted but knows that soon...

... remember Pari Darwaza the way it was as long as he can"' (Baldwin 1999, 451).Silently accepting this charge, Roop, however, realizes that shemust not forget. "I mustremembeKr usum'sbody,"Roop decides, and the narrative voice confirms: "Roop will remember Kusum's body, re-membered" (451).As Priya Kumar...

... Indians who have Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 13, no. 2 (2016): 1-27. Copyright © 2016 Smith College. doi:10.2979/meridians.13.2.02 1 migrated from India, Punjab, and Pakistan (Dasgupta 1998; Inman et al. 2001; Masood, Okazaki, and Takeuchi 2009; Kumar and Nevid 2010). Moreover, the few...

..., and poetry take up themes of misperception, transformation, and dislocation while collectively inhabiting many worlds. Poems by Jacqueline Bishop, Karen An-hwie Lee, rose.elle.kiwi, and Lavinia Kumar arrive at vital junctures throughout the issue. Each resonates with questions raised by the issue's other...

.... Keck and Sikkink, ActivistsBeyondBorders1,82. 9. Uma Narayan, DislocatingCultures:IdentitiesT,raditionsandThirdWorldFeminism(N.Y.: Routledge, 1997), chap. 3. ro. Radha Kumar, "From Chipko To Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women's Move- GLOBALIZATION OF THE LOCAL/LOCALIZATION OF THE GLOBAL 83 ment...

... case I was looking for was HIMIKA BHATTACHARYA MAGIC TRICKS 161 that of Shalini's murder by her husband. The following incident occurred at the Police Station in Keylong some time after I gained access to the files. June 22, 2011, Magic Tricks: Constable Anil Kumar, my sole sympathizer at the Keylong...

... of the United States—more specifically, on what Khaled Beydoun ( 2018 ) refers to as “American Islamophobia,” or Deepa Kumar ( 2012 ) calls “the US empire”—has helped build an understanding of this phenomenon. Also, various issues of Islamophobia Studies Journal edited by Hatem Bazian since 2012 have...

... women and ultimately resulting in the formation of several autonomous women's organizations dedicated to the issue (Gandhi and Shah 1992; Kumar 1993). Indian feminists engaged in activism during this period came to realize that utilizing general criminal provisions to address violence within the marital...

... cultivating middle-class savarna women as casteless anti-imperial mothers for an incipient nation (Kumar 1993 ). In independent India, aligned with Brahminical patriarchy’s script of savior feminism within an anti-imperial nationalist mold, savarna socialist feminists ambivalently transgressed the still...

... that I have used in this piece. 2 See the work of the World Courts of Women NGO, led by Dr. Corinne Kumar, based in Tunis, together with that of the human rights advocacy group El Taller International. 3 Some supposedly progressive Black males who would argue that they are feminist...

... Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, and Kishore Kumar to establish what critic Neepa Majumdar calls a "voice monopoly" (Majumdar 2001, 163).7Not only did this small group of exceptionally talented playback artists sing almost all the Hindi film songs composed between the 1950sand late 1980s...

... sepoyGunga Din in the Hollywood film of the 1930sand the Chinese cook Hop Sing in the Cartwright household of Bonanza(NBC, 1959-1973).The pot-smoking, comedic duo ofrecent times, Harold and Kumar, are now seen, at least by their own generation, as being as "American" as any Caucasian males could be. But has...

... deal from the emasculated Indian sepoy Gunga Din in the Hollywood film of the 1930s and the Chinese cook Hop Sing in the Cartwright household of Bonanza (NBC, 1959–1973). The pot-smoking, comedic duo of recent times, Harold and Kumar, are now seen, at least by their own generation, as being...

..., dited byAmitava Kumar. Minneapolis: Universityof Minnesota Press. Puar, Jasbir. 2007.TerrorisAt ssemblagesH: omonationalismin QueerTimes.Durham, NC:Duke UniversityPress. Rai, Amit. 2010.UntimelyBollywoodG: lobalizationandIndia'sNewMediaAssemblage. Durham, NC:Duke UniversityPress. Rajan, Gita...

.... "Killing my Heart's Desire: Education and Female Autonomy in Rural North India." In Womenas Subjects.SouthAsian Histories, ed. Nita Kumar, 125-71. Charlottesville, Va: University ofVirginia Press. Jehangir, K.N. 1991. Muslim Women in WestBengal.Socio-economicand Political Status. Calcutta: Minerva...