Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory /

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"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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Didur, Jill, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1947.
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 de genre 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.
Indic fiction (English)
Literature.
Teilung
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.
Roman.
India > History > Partition, 1947.
India > In literature.
Inde > Histoire > 1947 (Partage)
India.
Indien
Indien > historia > 1900-talet.
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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