Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India - Couverture souple

Misri, Deepti

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252080394 ISBN 13 : 9780252080395

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phenomena frequently intersect with prevailing forms of gendered violence complicated by caste, religion, regional identity, and class within communities.

Deepti Misri shows how Partition began 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. She moves beyond that formative national event, however, in order to examine other forms of gendered violence in the postcolonial life of the nation, including custodial rape, public stripping, deturbanning, and enforced disappearances. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against women and men, Misri 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 India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252080394
• ISBN 13: 9780252080395
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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