Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory / Jill Didur
- Bib ID:
- 4043638
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- Book
- Author:
- Didur, Jill, 1965-
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- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006
- x, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780802079978
- 0802079970
- Summary:
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introdution : unsettling partition
- 1. 'Making men for the India of tomorrow'? : gender and nationalist discourse in South Asia
- 2. Fragments of imagination : rethinking the literary in historiography through narratives of India's partition
- 3. Cracking the nation : memory, minorities, and the ends of narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
- 4. A heart divided : education, romance, and the domestic sphere in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a broken column
- 5. At a loss for words : reading the silence in South Asian women's partition narratives
- Conclusion : recovering the nation?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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