Bodies That Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry

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Bodies That Remember Women’s Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry Anita Anantharam S Y R AC USE U N I V E R SI T Y PR E S S Copyright © 2012 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2012 12 13 14 15 16 17 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3263-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anantharam, Anita. Bodies that remember : women’s indigenous knowledge and cosmopolitanism in South Asian poetry / Anita Anantharam. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Gender and globalization) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3263-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. South Asian poetry— History and criticism. 2. Women and literature—South Asia. 3. Women in literature. I. Title. PK5420.A53 2011 891'.1—dc23 2011045529 Manufactured in the United States of America For my girls . . . Ameia Camielle and Isha Mayuri Anita Anantharam is assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research. She holds a Ph.D. in South and Southeast Asian studies, with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality, from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation, a volume of translations, and has published essays in journals such as Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of International Women’s Studies. Her research interests are in the fields of nationalism, gender politics, and women’s movements in South Asia. ...