Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India (Dissident Feminisms) - Hardcover

Misri, Deepti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252038851 ISBN 13: 9780252038853

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

In Beyond Partition, Deepti Misri 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, she 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, Beyond Partition 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 of India.

About this title

Book Description

Representations of violence and the competing ideas of what "India" means

About the Author

Deepti Misri is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at University of Colorado Boulder.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0252038851
• ISBN 13: 9780252038853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224