Beyond Partition
Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2014
224 pages
978-0-252-09681-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Beyond Partition , Deepti Misri shows how 1947 marked the beginning of 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. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against men and women, she 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 of India.
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Deepti Misri is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at University of Colorado Boulder.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Anatomy of a Riot: Vulnerable Male Bodies in Manto and Other Fictions
- 2. The Violence of Memory: Women's Renarrations of the Partition
- 3. Atrocious Encounters: Caste Violence and State Violence
- 4. "Are You a Man?": Performing Naked Protest in India
- 5. "This Is Not a Performance": Public Mourning and Visual Spectable in Kashmir
- Epilogue: The Violence of the Oppressed
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
