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Violent Belongings - Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Paperback)
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Violent Belongings - Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Paperback)
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Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the
Partition of India, "Violent Belongings" examines transnational
South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian
subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United
States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg.,
Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal
testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and
questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event
during which two million people died and sixteen million were
displaced.
In addition to challenging the official narratives of independence
and Partition, these narratives challenge our contemporary
understanding of gender and ethnicity in history and politics.
"Violent Belongings "argues that both male and female bodies, and
heterosexual coupledom, became symbols of the nation in public
life. In the newly independent Indian nation both men and women
were transformed into ideal citizens or troubling bodies,
immigrants or refugees, depending on whether they were ethnically
Hindu, Muslim, Jewish or Sikh. The divisions set in motion during
Partition continue into our own time and account for ethnic
violence in South Asia.
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