Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present

by Angana P. Chatterji

An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence--in wars of direct and indirect conquest--marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9381017875
• ISBN13: 9789381017876
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Zubaan Books
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"