Call for Chapters
Tawaifbaazi : Courtesans and Prostitutes in Urdu Hindi Literature
Editor: Farkhanda Shahid Khan
The intersection of literature and societal issues has long served as a platform for introspection, critique, and exploration. In Urdu Hindi literature, the portrayal of courtesans and prostitutes has been a source of both fascination and controversy, reflecting the intricate interplay of culture, ethics, and human existence. Ismat Chughtai, Sa‘adat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Agha Shorish Kashmiri, Munshi Premchand, and many other writers of Urdu and Hindi literature have intricately depicted the human experiences, societal norms, and individual choices through their literary works. This call invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute chapters to an edited collection that scrutinizes the depiction of courtesans and prostitutes in Urdu Hindi literature, exploring contemporary themes and critical perspectives.
This volume intends to make a substantial contribution to the academic field of gender studies, social discourse and South Asian literature.
Chapters are invited that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Authors are encouraged to submit original chapters that deepen our comprehension of courtesans and prostitutes in Urdu Hindi literature, providing insightful analyses and fresh interpretations. Contributions from diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches are encouraged, including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, history, sociology, and anthropology.
Important Dates
September 05, 2024: Abstract Submission Deadline
September 19, 2024: Notification of Abstract Decision
November 25, 2024: Full Chapter Due
Please submit an abstract of 200-250 words to [email protected] .
Submission guidelines will be provided upon acceptance of the abstract. Each submission will undergo a double blind peer-review process and the book will be published by a prestigious academic publisher in June 2025. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at [email protected]
We look forward to engaging in a rich and thought-provoking dialogue on this significant yet understudied aspect of Urdu Hindi literature.
About the Editor
Farkhanda Shahid Khanis a feminist researcher, activist, and academic. She teaches contemporary English literature at Government College University Faisalabad. Khan works on Feminism, Marxism, Culture, and Gender & Sexuality with a focus on the Global South. Currently, she is a doctoral fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures at the University of Edinburgh and her research delves into the red light districts and brothel quarters in South Asia.
Bolsonaristas are (still) taking their cues from America’s MAGA movement.
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By Vincent Bevins
Vincent Bevins was the Brazil correspondent for The Los Angeles Times from 2011 to 2016. Over the next few years, he covered the rise of Bolsonarismo for The New York Review of Books. For this article, he made several trips to Brazil over the past 11 months.
As president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was often called the Trump of the Tropics, an association the Bolsonaro family actively cultivated. From the moment he was elected in 2018, he loudly celebrated the United States — in his first year in office, he even saluted the U.S. flag — but he saved his most intense loyalty for one American. When he met President Trump at the United Nations in 2019, he told him: “I love you.”
Before assuming power, Bolsonaro was an anti-democratic ideologue and former military man with a decades-long career in politics; Trump was a real estate developer and a media personality. But over the six years that Bolsonaro drove the news cycles in Latin America’s largest nation, he gave journalists a long list of reasons to equate the two men. Both made a show of praising authoritarian leaders, past and present, and liked to style themselves as defenders of law and order while acting as if the rules didn’t apply to them. Both formed an alliance with the religious right late in their careers and enlisted their sons to help push their respective agendas. Both frequently took to Twitter to attack their enemies, troll traditional media and rile up their supporters. And both retreated to Florida when things got tough.
For decades, the Brazilian right had looked to the United States, and when Donald Trump began to transform the rules of political discourse, it took note. “We learned to have the courage to speak up,” says Damares Alves, an evangelical pastor who served as Bolsonaro’s minister of human rights, families and women. “We began to be more incisive on the question of abortion. We learned we could be more direct about the question of arming the population. We realized we could take a tougher stand against the left-wing transformation taking place across our continent.”
As president, Bolsonaro seemed eager to import as much of the MAGA movement to Brazil as possible. So when Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest a “stolen” election, many Brazilians worried that Bolsonaro supporters might try something similar. That’s exactly what happened. On Jan. 1, 2023, when Bolsonaro’s opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leader of the left-wing Workers’ Party, took office, Bolsonaro skipped the ceremony, holing up instead in the Orlando suburbs, at the home of a mixed-martial-arts fighter. For weeks, Bolsonaristas had been camping out around the country, under banners calling for an “intervention.” In an echo of Jan. 6, they chose Jan. 8 to occupy and attack government buildings in the capital, Brasília, even though the transition had already taken place and the buildings were largely empty. Military police officers arrested more than 1,000 people, and Lula quickly reasserted control of the country.
Bolsonaro, like Trump, now faces a host of criminal charges for trying to impede democratic elections. Trump has been convicted in one case, but only Bolsonaro has been deemed ineligible to run for president. In June 2023, Brazil’s electoral court ruled that his attacks on the voting system disqualified him from running for any political office until 2030. He is now facing hundreds of other court cases. In February of this year, authorities confiscated his passport after arresting several former aides accused of plotting a coup, making another escape to Florida impossible. Bolsonaro took refuge for two nights in the Hungarian Embassy in São Paulo, perhaps hoping to leverage his relationship with Prime Minister Viktor Orban (one of many friends he shares with Trump) if flight became necessary.
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