1st Edition
Mapping South Asian Masculinities Men and Political Crises
Introduction - Mapping South Asian masculinities: men and political crises Chandrima Chakraborty
Section I: The Past and the Present
1. Uncles of the nation: avuncular masculinity in partition-era politics Sailaja Krishnamurti
2. Valour, violence and the ethics of struggle: constructing militant masculinities in Sri Lanka Jani de Silva
3. Once were warriors: the militarized state in narrating the past Bina D’Costa
4. Limp wrists, inflammatory punches: violence, masculinity, and queer sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy Rahul K. Gairola
5. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s dying men Shazia Sadaf
Section II: Migratory Routes
6. Recuperating Indian masculinity: Mohandas Gandhi, war and the Indian diaspora in South Africa (1899–1914) Arafaat A. Valiani
7. ‘My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist’: disability and asexuality in My Name is Khan Jana Fedtke
8. Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: the tragedy versus the comedy Umme Al-wazedi
9. ‘Bling-bling economics’ and the cultural politics of masculinity in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani Kasim Husain
Biography
Chandrima Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on Indian nationalism, gender, and memory. Publications include, Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India (2011), a Feature Section in Topia on the 1985 Air India bombings, and The Art of Public Mourning: Remembering Air India (forthcoming).
