| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 166 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: A story on tongues -- Abject tongues -- Forked tongues -- Promiscuous tongues -- The other end of the tongue |
| Summary |
"In this deeply intimate book, Moon Charania brings us into an archive of a brown femininized maternal world. Focusing on her mother, a Pakistani woman in diaspora, Charania offers alternative ways of seeing and hearing a migrant woman of color that is not in the service of empire, white hegemony, and neoliberal narrative capital. Her mother's memories, feelings, and stories of abjection, sexuality, connection, and debility reveal ways in which brown women develop survival mechanisms and strategies that are often lived out invisibly, in intimate spaces. Moving through intimate geographies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, and the United States, Archive of Tongues reveals the everyday fraught terrain of feminine dispossession and the diasporic condition. Opening with a childhood story about tongues, Charania conceptualizes the tongue as an object of theory, a formative project of knowledge, and as an analytic to better inquire into brownness. Charania offers her mother's tongue and her mother's life to recover otherwise silenced stories of sexuality, violence, domesticity, anti-brownness, and anti-blackness"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Charania, Moon, 1976- -- Family
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South Asian diaspora.
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions
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Minority women -- Social conditions
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Immigrant families -- Social conditions
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Motherhood -- Political aspects
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Sex discrimination against women.
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Feminist theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
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Families
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Feminist theory
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Minority women -- Social conditions
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Motherhood -- Political aspects
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Sex discrimination against women
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South Asian diaspora
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022060455 |
| ISBN |
1478024100 |
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9781478024101 |
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