Shadows At Noon
Autor Joya Chatterjien Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2023
Considerăm că Shadows At Noon reprezintă o contribuție esențială în cadrul studiilor de istorie modernă a Asiei de Sud, fiind o lucrare ce reușește să sintetizeze evoluția complexă a regiunii de la sfârșitul perioadei coloniale până în prezent. Textul se încadrează în bibliografia obligatorie pentru înțelegerea proceselor de decolonizare și formare a statelor naționale India, Pakistan și Bangladesh. Suntem de părere că inovația majoră a acestui volum rezidă în abordarea sa tematică, ce refuză cronologia liniară în favoarea unei analize profunde a structurilor sociale. Fiecare capitol investighează o temă recurentă care a modelat subcontinentul, acordând o importanță egală politicii de stat și aspectelor de istorie a vieții private, cum ar fi dieta alimentară sau transformările familiei. Cititorii familiarizați cu Modern South Asia de Sugata Bose vor aprecia modul în care Joya Chatterji aduce în prim-plan viața cotidiană, oferind o dimensiune umană cercetării care completează analizele politice și economice standard. Această perspectivă este ancorată în expertiza anterioară a autoarei, vizibilă în lucrări precum The Bengal Diaspora sau Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora. Dacă în scrierile precedente Joya Chatterji s-a concentrat pe mecanismele migrației și ale identității fragmentate, în Shadows At Noon ea extinde cadrul pentru a demonstra continuitățile culturale care persistă în ciuda granițelor politice. Tonul este precis și academic, dar vigoarea argumentației face ca structurile sociale complexe să devină inteligibile. Considerăm acest volum de 640 de pagini o resursă fundamentală pentru oricine studiază istoria comparată și dinamica socio-culturală a Asiei de Sud.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1847925499
Pagini: 864
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 60 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
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Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor care caută o istorie integrată a subcontinentului indian. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care viața de zi cu zi — de la obiceiuri alimentare la structura gospodăriei — a influențat identitatea națională în India, Pakistan și Bangladesh. Este un volum care demontează mitul diferențelor ireconciliabile, oferind un argument solid pentru rădăcinile culturale comune ale regiunii.
Descriere scurtă
Based on decades of scholarship, this is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century
Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj through independence and partition to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Unlike other histories of the region which concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the household are given as much importance as nationhood, migration and the state.
Thematic rather than chronological, each chapter illuminates an overarching topic that has shaped South Asia. This format enables us to explore issues - like the changing character of the family or the 'Indian diet' - over time and in depth.
Chatterji's purpose is to make contemporary South Asia - its cultural vibrancy, diversity, social structures and political make-up - intelligible to everyone. In so doing this bold, innovative and personal work rallies against standard narratives of 'inherent' differences between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and reveals the many things its people have in common.
'Truly magnificent' MIHIR BOSE, author of The Nine Waves
Recenzii
“With clarity, wit and charm, Chatterji tells the story of the subcontinent’s recent history in a fluent sweeping arc. . . . Wide-angled and hugely ambitious, but also highly personal and pleasingly discursive, . . . it is wonderfully enjoyable to read. . . . This original, genre-defying work is sure to become a classic.”—William Dalrymple, The Guardian
“This historiographic plum pudding is full of delights. . . . With empathy for all the thinkers, leaders, and common people caught up in the torturous events, Chatterji shares her encyclopedic knowledge of ideologies, laws, caste, class, cities, labor, cuisine, gender, sex work, rice cultivation, snake charmers, and even the best South Asian movies.”—Foreign Affairs
“This book [is] a sweeping look at twentieth-century South Asia. It is a work of history, certainly. But it is equal parts memoir, social commentary, and cultural critique. Its brilliance is that it defies easy classification. . . . If all history was written this well, we would be a society of budding historians.”—Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Best Books of 2023”
Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, sponsored by the Women’s Prize Trust
Shortlisted for the 2024 Cundill Prize, sponsored by McGill University
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, sponsored by the Wolfson Foundation
“The story of South Asia told with such verve, wit, and brilliance it catches comatose facts by the throat and shakes them alive. This book invents a genre: navigating effortlessly between the archives, conversations, memoir, newspapers, swooping out to make magisterial observations, zooming in to unearth nuggets of gossip. It is like riding a rollercoaster with a mesmerizing guide who can touch down on any part of South Asia that she chooses, before taking off again.”—Anuradha Roy, author of All The Lives We Never Lived
“This book is a symbol of the inexhaustible richness of the modern history of what are now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, studied together by one of South Asia's very best historians. Chatterji weaves engaging vignettes of her own experiences into a masterful account anchored in a chronological narrative and illuminated by brilliantly chosen thematic focuses. A pleasure to read, this book will engage newcomers and old-timers alike.”—Barbara D. Metcalf, coauthor of A Concise History of Modern India
“An incredible achievement by an historian writing at her best and displaying narrative sweep and analytical depth.”—Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Ashoka University
“A truly magnificent book, and a must-read for anyone interested in the region.”—Mihir Bose, author of The Nine Waves
“This is history at its best; an invitation to enter worlds within worlds in the company of a master storyteller.”—Simon Longstaff
“A charismatic, dazzling piece of work that has the feel of a future classic.”—Edward Anderson
“Magisterial, erudite, and intimate.”—Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
Notă biografică
Joya Chatterji is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, emeritus professor of South Asian history, and was longtime director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. She was editor of Modern Asian Studies for a decade.
Descriere
A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan