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Violent belongings : partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India / Kavita Daiya.
- 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.
- Group identity--South Asia.
- Group identity.
- Gender identity--South Asia.
- Gender identity.
- South Asia--Ethnic relations.
- South Asia.
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Influence.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines 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 addi
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere; 2 Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship; 3 "A Crisis Made Flesh": Women, Honor, and National Coupledom; 4 "We Were Never Refugees": Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State; 5 War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema; 6 Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611973285
- 9781281973283
- 1281973289
- 9781592137459
- 1592137458
- OCLC:
- 476226131
- Publisher Number:
- heb40324 hdl
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