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Lifelines New Writing from Bangladesh
ISBN: PB: 9789381017845, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The first collection of its kind, "Lifelines" presents new work by young female writers from Bangladesh. Their stories portray multifaceted characters trying to take control of their own destinies, challenging stereotypes that cast the complex countr...
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£11,50
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Waiting A Collection of Stories
ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...
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£15,00
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Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence
ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...
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£18,00
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Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9789381017685, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
200 pp., 21.5x27.9 cm, 200 colour plates
From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images – more than two hundred of them gathered here – tell...
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£37,50
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No Ghosts in This City And Other Short Stories
ISBN: PB: 9789383074075, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm
The powerful short stories in this collection are set against – and frequently driven by – the picturesque yet often violent backdrop of Assam, a province in India's northeast. In one, a young man attempts to escape the confines of middle-class aspir...
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£11,50
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