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highly literate biography that places the comic in the pop-cultural context of his times

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Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India AUTH-9495697 When she starts to useDomestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the