...Charmaine Carvalho Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary , has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context...

... Banerjee Payel . 2007 . “ Chinese Indians in Fire: Refractions of Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship in Post-colonial India's Memories of the Sino-Indian War .” China Report 43 , no. 4 : 437 – 63 . Chuen Chen Liu . 2015 . “ 53 Years of Indo-China War: Indian-Chinese Prisoners...

...Allan deSouza Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Allan deSouza Indian Aphorisms C-prints with silkscreened text, each 12 x 10 inches (1992-1994). positions 5:2 All artwork is reprinted with the permission of the artist. It began...

...Inderpal Grewal Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects lnderpal GrewaI In the extensive field of cultural studies of Barbie, there are only some cur- sory...

...Caetano Veloso 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Translated by Andrew F. Jones and Eric Allina-Pisano An Indian Words and music by Caetano Veloso From a shining colored star will descend an Indian From a star that spins with dazzling...

...Françoise Vergès 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Writing on Water: Peripheries, Flows, Capital, and Struggles in the Indian Ocean Françoise Vergès Current discussions about globalization often ignore the flows of capital that travel south to south...

...-discriminatory citizenship laws are rooted in historical social and geopolitical tensions with India, especially nationalistic fears about Indian encroachment into Nepali territory and politics. This article argues that resurgent resistance to equitable citizenship laws does not simply reflect hegemonic Hindu...

...Moinak Biswas This article considers a possible logic of evolution in Indian cinema, which rests on the movement from space as stage of action, imbued with value, to a multiplication of secularized intermediary spaces. The encounter with the city—a defined geography and grid—made its own...

... Again , dir. Ramesh Saigal, 1958)—that featured Bombay in a prominent role and delivered it to the Indian public as an iconic space oscillating between exuberance and disenchantment. The author analyzes how these musical sequences use performance, music, and set design to reimagine the metropolis...

... concern over the “missing” girl child have been associated with the spread of antenatal technologies such as ultrasound testing during pregnancy and their surreptitious use for sex determination and the selective abortion of female fetuses, which is banned by Indian law. This essay attempts to set up...

... to resolve the systemic contradictions. Story 1. The Story of the Zapatistas, the Masked Army: how the indigenous Indians have changed their ancient tradition of living in harmony with nature and are now “destroying” nature in order to farm and subsist. Story 2. The Story of the “Straw-Hat Plot of Land”: how...

... is in contradistinction to the public, the authors join scholarly conversations that trace how relations of intimacy are constructed through processes of labor. This analysis of intimate encounters and affective labor draws upon several years of intensive ethnographic field research in call centers in the southern Indian...

.... The market, however, is an exorcist. First world families, replete with genetically descended babies, are possible only through exorcising the laboring bodies of working-class Indian surrogate mothers. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 reproductive assembly lines cross-border reproductive...

... notions of race, nationality, and skin color in the context of egg donation. In contrast to dominant assumptions that intended parents primarily seek donors who match their own racial/ethnic backgrounds, most commissioning parents in this study sought Indian egg donors with darker skin tones. This article...

... of the region. This article, using two Malayalam language films from the South Indian state of Kerala, Arabikatha ( Arabian Tale ) and 16 MM: Memories, Movement and a Machine , attempts to think through how mistranslation of the “world” is central to the formation of the regional subject. Copyright 2016...

...Richard I. Suchenski Although their work is most frequently discussed in relation to the “Indian New Wave” or within the more theoretically charged framework of the “avant-garde,” filmmakers Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani have spent decades pursuing aesthetic projects whose parameters exceed...

... symptoms of a crucial predicament in Indian cinema's bid for alternative expressions in the realm of popular culture and spectatorial customs. Analyses of select films such as Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), Pankh and Gandu (both 2010) draw attention to a certain tendency in contemporary narrative drama...

... and the male Indian manual laborer are respectively the subject of imaginative narration in No Day Off (2006) and My Magic (2008), both directed by Chinese Singaporean auteur Eric Khoo. In these films, Khoo allegorizes these three relations to construct the inter-Asian hinterland as a counter-discursive space...

...登 composed a vernacular novel Sanbao taijian xiyangji tongsu yanyi 三寶太監西洋記通俗演義 ( Vernacular Romance of Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyages on the Indian Ocean ) (1598). This article examines how the imminent maritime realities reminded the late Ming authors of one cross-border war and two genocides in Java...

...Nandini Bhattacharya In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011...