Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture by Kavita Daiya

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By Kavita Daiya

concentrating on the old and modern narration of the Partition of India, Violent assets examines transnational South Asian tradition from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas within the uk and the us, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood movie, own tales and journalism signify the violence, migration and questions of nationwide belonging unleashed by way of that pivotal occasion within which million humans died and 16 million have been displaced. as well as not easy the legitimate narratives of independence and Partition, those narratives problem our modern knowing of gender and ethnicity in background and politics. Violent assets argues that either female and male our bodies, and heterosexual coupledom, grew to become symbols of the country in public existence. within the newly self sufficient Indian country either women and men have been reworked into excellent voters or troubling our bodies, immigrants or refugees, looking on whether or not they have been ethnically Hindu, Muslim, Jewish or Sikh.
The divisions set in movement in the course of Partition proceed into our personal time and account for ethnic violence in South Asia.

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