Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition

The Paradox of Independence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the neglected narratives of the Partition of India in 1947, particularly from the Bengal region, to study the traces left by this foundational trauma on the national and regional cultural imaginaries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book expands gender issues to notions of masculinity and marginalization of minorities and includes the child's experience during Partition. A valuable addition to the growing field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to academics working on South Asian history, gender studies and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781138183100
• ISBN-10: 1138183105
• Artikelnr.: 48060005

Autorenporträt

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is Associate Professor of English and World Literature at James Madison University, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Tainted Liberty: women and the Partition
2. Midnight's Children: inhabiting the postcolonial landscape
3. Teachers, Train Hawkers, Sales-Girls: women, work, and the family
4. The Diminished Man: the mythic and the mundane
5. Geographies of Belonging: home and the persistence of memory
6. Recasting Men: constructing the model male citizen
7. Identity Lessons: trauma and children's education in difference
Conclusion