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Autore: | Daiya Kavita <1970-> |
Titolo: | Violent belongings [[electronic resource] ] : partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India / / Kavita Daiya |
Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/3585404 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism |
American literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism | |
Motion pictures - India | |
Group identity - South Asia | |
Gender identity - South Asia | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Asia Ethnic relations |
India History Partition, 1947 Influence | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere; 2 Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship; 3 "A Crisis Made Flesh": Women, Honor, and National Coupledom; 4 "We Were Never Refugees": Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State; 5 War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema; 6 Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event during which two million people died and sixteen million were displaced. In addi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Violent belongings |
ISBN: | 1-281-97328-9 |
9786611973285 | |
1-59213-745-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454128403321 |
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