Rebecca Brown

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415494311
• ISBN-10: 0415494311
• Artikelnr.: 29934749

Autorenporträt

Rebecca M. Brown is visiting Associate Professor in Political Science and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, US, researching colonial and post-independence in South Asia. Her publications include Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (2009) and Asian Art (co-edited with Deborah S. Hutton, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Spinning, Anticolonial Nationalism, and the Visual 1. Action
and Identity: Colonial Representations of Spinning 2. Capturing the Wheel
in Motion: Photography and Spinning 3. Discovering Spinning: Towards
Gandhi's Visual Rhetoric 4. Gender and the Modern Charkha 5. National
Symbols: Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel