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Crafting the Word Writings from Manipur
ISBN: HB: 9789385932809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, w...
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High Wind
ISBN: HB: 9789385932823, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she Assamese, like her father, or Khasi, like her mother?  As a...
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Many That I Am Writings from Nagaland
ISBN: HB: 9789385932793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A grandmother's tattoos, the advent of Christianity, stories woven into fabrics, a tradition of orality, the imposition of a "new" language, and a history of war and conflict – all of this and much more informs the writers and artists in this book. F...
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Respectable Woman
ISBN: HB: 9789385932472, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The Second World War has just ended. The Japanese have departed. In Nagaland in northeast India – one of the key theaters of the battle – political unrest and tremendous social changes have generated new social problems. For returning soldiers and ot...
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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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Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir
ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...
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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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Freedom Fables Satire and Politics in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings
ISBN: HB: 9789385932489, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
From the writer of the delightful utopian fantasy "Sultana's Dream" come these witty tales describing the twists and turns of India's two-hundred-year relationship with the Imperial British. Available to contemporary English readers for the first tim...
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Clone
ISBN: HB: 9789385932434, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, "The Clone" inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against...
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Mahuldiha Days
ISBN: HB: 9789385932175, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2018
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, "Mahuldiha Days" is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickl...
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