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An Empire of Touch
Author: Saha, Poulomi
Brand: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231196239-
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Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women s political lab or in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, an empire of touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political lab or under empire. 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 The lab or organizing pushing back draws on a long history of gendered lab or division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedents of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women s lab or 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 lab or 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 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 lab or, 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, anti-colonial nationalism to neoliberal globalisation, 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 lab or under empire.
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