Kavita Daiya

Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

"Violent Belongings" examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781592137442
• ISBN-10: 159213744X
• Artikelnr.: 32208397

Autorenporträt

Kavita Daiya is Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER ONE:
Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition and Identity in the
Transnational Public Sphere
CHAPTER TWO:
Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance and Secular Citizenship
CHAPTER THREE
"A Crisis Made Flesh:" Women, Honor and National Coupledom
CHAPTER FOUR
"We Were Never Refugees:" Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State
CHAPTER FIVE
War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema
CHAPTER SIX
Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in
the Diaspora
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX