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

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

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

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

by Kavita Daiya

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592137459
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 07/28/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 280
File size: 584 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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
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