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Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory / Jill Didur.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Didur, Jill, 1965-
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Indic fiction.
- Partition, Territorial, in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Women in literature.
- India--History--Partition, 1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern-nation states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan." "Diverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction and sexual assault of over 75,000 women) can be found in fictional, historical, autobiographical, and scholarly works. Unsettling Partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent women's experiences of the Partition."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- "Making men for the India of tomorrow"? Gender and nationalist discourse in South Asia
- Fragments of imagination : rethinking the literary in historiography through narratives of India's partition
- Cracking the nation : memory, minorities, and the ends of narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
- A heart divided : education, romance, and the domestic sphere in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a broken column
- At a loss for words : reading the silence in South Asian women's partition narratives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-3825-7
- 1-281-99771-4
- 9786611997717
- 1-4426-8295-7
- OCLC:
- 1013936650
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