Violent Belongings Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

Name: Violent Belongings Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
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ISBN: 9781592137442

ISBN-10: 159213744X

ISBN-13: 9781592137442

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kavita Daiya

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Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India,Violent Belongingsexamines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event during which two million people died and sixteen million were displaced. In addition to challenging the official narratives of independence and Partition, these narratives challenge our contemporary…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere



Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship



ï¿½A Crisis Made Fleshï¿½: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom



ï¿½We Were Never Refugeesï¿½: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State



War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema



Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index