Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction.
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 119593
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466740.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199466740
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/intimate-class-acts-9780199466740
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The monograph is the culmination of six years of research and writing. Engaging in depth with 10 Anglophone, female-authored novels published between 1985 and 2006, it examines the much-neglected and complex theme of cross-class intimacy in South Asia, exploring the roles of power and desire and emotional and physical intimacy. It marks a sharp departure from the existing scholarship which focuses primarily on the notion of hybridity, often conceived in East/West or North/South terms. The 215-page monograph consists of eight chapters includes a foreword by the novelist Tabish Khair, who describes it as a ‘necessary book’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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