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“pushpa parekh”

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  • Wagadu Volume 4

    Intersecting Gender and Disability Perspectives in Rethinking Postcolonial Identities

    by Pushpa Parekh ...
    This volume of Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Womens and Gender Studies launches its second printed edition. Wagaduthe Soninke name of the Ghana Empirecontrolled the present-day Mali, Mauritania and Senegal and was famous for its prosperity and power from approximately 300-1076 CE. It constituted the bridge between North Africa, the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern worlds and Sub-Saharan ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Memory Braids and Sari Texts: Weaving Migration Journeys

    by Pushpa Naidu Parekh ...
    The braid and the sari are the quintessential hairstyle and garment that women in India don every day. They are both texture and text. The braid—often kept long and styled with flowers (especially in South India) or lengthened with extensions (as in North India)—is a prized possession with both aesthetic and spiritual meanings. The sari is a length of untailored cloth material that has been the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Postcolonial African Writers

    A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

    Edited by Siga Fatima Jagne, Pushpa Naidu Parekh ...
    This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Greening of the Self

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  • A Handful of Quiet

    Happiness in Four Pebbles

    by Thich Nhat Hanh ...
    MEDITATION—FOR KIDS! The “father of mindfulness” presents a hands-on, creative method of meditation perfect for children experiencing stress and difficult emotions (TIME).Features cute illustrations, plus useful tips on how to start a ‘pebble meditation’ practice at home or in the classroom.Developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as part of the Plum Village community’s practice with children, pebble ... Read more

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  • Ritual

    Power, Healing and Community

    by Malidoma Patrice Some ...
    Series series Compass
    The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends ... Read more

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  • What Fanon Said

    A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

    by Lewis R. Gordon, Drucilla Cornell ...
    Series series Just Ideas
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  • Duress

    Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

    by Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial ... Read more

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  • A Guru Always Takes You for a Ride

    In the Presence of the Master

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  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
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  • Ritual: Power, Healing and Community

    by Malidoma Patrice Some ...
    The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends ... Read more

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