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_2DOI: _ahttps://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038853.001.0001 |
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_aMisri, D. _d1977- _eauthor _q(Deepti) |
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_aBeyond partition : _bGender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India / _cby Deepti Misri. _h[electronic resource] |
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_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2014. |
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| 300 | _ae-book contains 224 pages | ||
| 490 | 0 | _aDissident feminists | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | _aAnatomy 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. |
| 520 | 3 | _aAbstract This book 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. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against men and women, the book establishes that cultural expressions do not just follow violence but determine its very contours, and interrogates the gendered scripts underwriting the violence originating in the contested visions of what “India” means. Ambitious and ranging across disciplines, the book offers both an overview of and nuanced new perspectives on the ways caste, identity, and class complicate representations of violence, and how such representations shape our understandings of both violence and Indi | |
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_aViolence _zIndia _xHistory. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aViolence in literature. | |
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_aIndia _xSocial conditions _y1947- |
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_aIndia _xHistory _y1947- |
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| 653 | 0 | 0 | _aGender and Sexuality |
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_3https://academic.oup.com/book/33311 _uhttps://academic.oup.com/book/33311 _yClick here |
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