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Author Misri, Deepti, 1977-

Title Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India / Deepti Misri
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Dissident feminisms
Dissident feminisms.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
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Subject Violence -- India -- History
Violence in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Social conditions
Violence
Violence in art
Violence in literature
Women -- Violence against
SUBJECT India -- Social conditions -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064952
India -- History -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064930
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Caspi, Ilan, author
LC no. 2020714993
ISBN 9780252096815
0252096819