Jill Didur

Unsettling Partition

Literature, Gender, Memory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women’s accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615052
• ISBN-10: 1442615052
• Artikelnr.: 57064471

Autorenporträt

Jill Didur is an associate professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unsettling Partition
‘Making Men for the India of Tomorrow’? Gender and Nationalist Discourse in
South Asia
Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through
Narratives of India’s Partition
Cracking the Nation: Memory, Minorities, and the Ends of Narrative in Bapsi
Sidhwa’s Cracking India
A Heart Divided: Education, Romance, and the Domestic Sphere in Attia
Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
At a Loss for Words: Reading the Silence in South Asian Women’s Partition
Narratives
Conclusion: Recovering the Nation?
Appendix A
Notes
Bibliography
Index