Violent Belongings
Subtitle: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: July 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781592137435
Subjects: Gender Studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Asian - Indic; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; American literature; English literature; History and criticism; India; Motion pictures; South Asian authors
Description: "Violent Belongings is about the relation between culture and violence in the modern world, exploring contemporary ethnic and gendered violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture."--Jacket.