Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory /

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Author / Creator:Didur, Jill, 1965-
Imprint:Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Violence in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Women in literature.
Roman de l'Inde (anglais) -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Démembrement des nations dans la littérature.
Identité sexuelle dans la littérature.
Violence dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Inde dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
Gender identity in literature.
Indic fiction (English)
Literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.
Teilung
Roman.
Sexuella övergrepp -- historia.
Nationalism.
Indiens delning 1947.
Indisk litteratur (engelskspråkig) -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Nationalism i litteraturen.
Kvinnor i litteraturen.
Våld i litteraturen.
Könsidentitet i litteraturen.
India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
India -- In literature.
Inde -- Histoire -- 1947 (Partage)
India.
Indien
Englisch.
Indien -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11177163
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781442682955
1442682957
1281997714
9781281997715
0802079970
9780802079978
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern-nation states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan." "Diverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction and sexual assault of over 75,000 women) can be found in fictional, historical, autobiographical, and scholarly works. Unsettling Partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent women's experiences of the Partition."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Didur, Jill, 1965- Unsettling partition. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006 9780802079978
Table of Contents:
  • "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.