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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Listening with a Feminist Ear by Pavitra Sundar, professor of literature

October 12, 2023

Tags Faculty Book

(Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2023).
With a focus on mainstream Bombay cinema, the author identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form. According to the publisher, “Charting new paths through seven decades of film, media, and cultural history, Sundar identifies key shifts in women’s playback voices and the Islamicate genre of the qawwali. She also conceptualizes spoken language as sound, and turns up the volume on a capacious, multilingual politics of belonging that scholarly and popular accounts of nation typically render silent.”