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Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India / Deepti Misri.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dissident feminismsPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252096815
  • 0252096819
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India.DDC classification:
  • 305.48/420954 23
LOC classification:
  • HN690.Z9
Online resources:
Contents:
Anatomy of a riot: vulnerable male bodies in Manto and other fictions -- The violence of memory: women's re-narrations of the partition -- Atrocious encounters: caste violence and state violence -- "Are you a man?": performing naked in India -- "This is not a performance!": public mourning and visual spectacle in Kashmir -- Epilogue: the violence of the oppressed.
Summary: This work shows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other
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Anatomy of a riot: vulnerable male bodies in Manto and other fictions -- The violence of memory: women's re-narrations of the partition -- Atrocious encounters: caste violence and state violence -- "Are you a man?": performing naked in India -- "This is not a performance!": public mourning and visual spectacle in Kashmir -- Epilogue: the violence of the oppressed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.

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This work shows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other

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