Description: Beyond Partition : Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India, Hardcover by Misri, Deepti, ISBN 0252038851, ISBN-13 9780252038853, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Beyond Partition : Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcol
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Beyond Partition : Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Asia / India & South Asia, Violence in Society, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Deepti Misri
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Dissident Feminisms Ser.
Format: Hardcover
