Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India / / Deepti Misri
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| Autore: |
Misri Deepti <1977->
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| Titolo: |
Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India / / Deepti Misri
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, Illinois ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.48/420954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Violence - India - History |
| Women - Violence against - India - History | |
| Violence in literature | |
| Violence in art | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Social conditions 1947- |
| India History 1947- | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond partition |
| ISBN: | 0-252-08039-4 |
| 0-252-09681-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787823203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Dissident feminisms.