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Women Writing Violence engages with select contemporary novels in
which women characters resist violence and redefine notions of
community by imagining bonds with the exiled and the disempowered.
The author interweaves the literary landscapes of African-American
writer Toni Morrison with the oeuvre of South Asian writers Mridula
Garg, Tahmina Durrani, Amrita Pritam, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Mahasweta
Devi. This results in the opening of a new gateway into the
thinking about violence and survival through a feminist,
transnational lens. Subramanian places women's literary imaginary
at the margins of both the nation-state and the patriarchal
community. She creates a specifically female language and
emphasizes the ingenious ways in which women characters in novels
restore dignity and agency to their kin and beloved. The book
focuses on voice and narrative techniques within the novel and
transgresses the confines of the Enlightenment discourse to reckon
with conceptual categories such as community and belonging.
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