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Can I read Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India on EtoBox?
Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India by Deepti Misri is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India about?
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.
Who reads Beyond partition : gender, violence, and representation in postcolonial India?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Deepti Misri
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252038853
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Literary Fiction, History