Browsing New Voices in Asian Research by Title
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From Roots to Rhizomes: Hybrid, Diasporic Identities in Hema and Kaushik
(2017-07-20)Rahman analyzes diasporic Indian characters from Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. Focusing on two characters, Hema and Kaushik, Rahman draws out themes of displacement, genealogy and gender to ... -
The Making of Bangladesh
(2017-07-20)In this paper, Alavi brings together an interview and academic scholarship on the 1971 partition of East and West Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh. Throughout the paper, the author works through theories of ... -
A Spell to Empower Women: Religion, Culture and Domestic Violence in Pakistan
(2017-11-15)In this essay, Behzad analyzes themes of gender, violence and nationalism in Rukhsana Ahmad’s short story, “The Spell and the Ever-Changing Moon.” The story is about a Pakistani woman, Nisa, who turns to black magic in an ... -
Understandings of Military Power, Intoxication and Love in Kashmir, India
(2020)In her essay, Harkit considers how patients at the Drug De-addiction Centre in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir reconfigure their relationship to substance abuse through the performance of alternate narratives that ... -
Views on the Model Minority Stereotype in a South Asian Canadian Context
(2020)Safa’s study focused on the Model Minority Stereotype (MMS), which depicts Asians as scoring high in certain seemingly positive attributes (e.g., competence and achievement), whilst also scoring high in seemingly negative ...