An Empire Of Touch

Download or read book An Empire of Touch written by Poulomi Saha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry—and the labor organizing pushing back—draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women’s labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive. Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated—in writing, in political action, in stitching—their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women’s empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.

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Download or read book The Chronicles of the Valenko Empire written by Laurie Bowler and published by Laurie Bowler. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhya Sinclair is caught in a dangerous web of power, secrets, and rebellion. As a young orphan with an extraordinary, forbidden gift in the mystical land of Valenko, Rhya must tread carefully amidst the anarchy and chaos spreading throughout the empire. Trusting only her loyal friends, Olga and Adil, she conceals her powers from outsiders while they flee the confines of their orphanage. But fate turns sinister when Rhya stumbles upon a brutal magical assault. Acting selflessly, she aids a wounded man, Robert, unaware of the darkness that lurks within him. As death and destruction surround them, Rhya and her friends become determined to fight back against the oppressive rulers who have plunged Valenko into turmoil. United in their revolt, Rhya and her allies embark on a treacherous journey, their hopes set on liberating Valenko from its tyrannical overlords and saving as many people as they can. Will they succeed in overthrowing the empire and rescuing their land from the clutches of darkness? Or will they succumb to the abyss of an empire at war?