Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India

by Deepti Misri

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080394
• ISBN13: 9780252080395
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"