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Violent belongings : partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India / Kavita Daiya.
Van Pelt Library PR129.S64 D35 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daiya, Kavita, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- Ethnic relations.
- Gender identity.
- Group identity.
- Authors, South Asian.
- English literature--South Asian authors.
- India.
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Influence.
- History.
- Group identity--South Asia.
- Gender identity--South Asia.
- Ethnic relations--South Asia.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 1
- 2 Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 31
- 3 "A Crisis Made Flesh": Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 65
- 4 "We Were Never Refugees": Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 102
- 5 War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 150
- 6 Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592137435
- 1592137431
- OCLC:
- 181599824
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