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Bodies That Remember: Women''s Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry
ISBN: 9780815650591
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Syracuse University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: South Asian poetry -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- South Asia; Women in literature;

An engaging and informative exploration of four women poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors and their works, as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations. The book tells of how these women forge solidarities with women from different, castes, classes, and religions through their poetry.