Community, Gender, and Violence Subaltern Studies XI

Name: Community, Gender, and Violence Subaltern Studies XI
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ISBN: 9780231123150

ISBN-10: 0231123159

ISBN-13: 9780231123150

Edition: 2000

Authors: Partha Chatterjee, Pradeep Jeganathan

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Subaltern Studies was launched in 1982 under the editorship of Ranajit Guha as a critique of the two dominant approaches to history-writing in South Asia -- the colonialist and the nationalist. Rejecting both approaches as litist, Subaltern Studies attempted to recover that space of politics where dominated and marginal groups -- the subaltern classes -- had tried to assert their own initiative. In its early phase, Subaltern Studies dealt extensively with the issue of community and violence in the context of peasant uprisings. Once the problems of peasant involvement in the modern politics of the nation were subjected to the same critical scrutiny, complexities in that relationship began…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.02" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Partha Chatterjee, founding member of the Subaltern Studieseditorial collective, is director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and visiting professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His books include The Nation and Its Fragmentsand Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World.Pradeep Jeganathan is McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Institute of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.



Preface


Notes on Contributors



A Greater Story-writer than God: Genre, Gender and Minority in Late Colonial India




A Space for Violence: Anthropology, Politics and the Location of a Sinhala Practice of Masculinity




Embodying the Self: Feminism, Sexual Violence and the Law




Women, Marriage, and the Subordination of Rights




Nationalism Refigured: Contemporary South Indian Cinema and the Subject of Feminism




Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth-century India




Constituting Nation, Contesting Nationalism: The Southern Tamil (Woman) and Separatist Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka




Toleration and Historical Traditions of Difference




Discussion: An Afterword on the New Subaltern



Glossary


Index