Violent belongings : partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India /

How the Partition of India set in motion the violence, ethnic divisions, and dislocations that continue into our own time.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Daiya, Kavita, 1970-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	English literature > South Asian authors > History and criticism. American literature > South Asian authors > History and criticism. Motion pictures > India. Group identity > South Asia. Gender identity > South Asia. Ethnic relations. India > History > Partition, 1947 > Influence.
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Table of Contents:

Train to Pakistan 2007: decolonization, partition, and identity in the transnational public sphere
Re-gendering the nation: masculinity, romance, and secular citizenship
A crisis made flesh: women, honor, and national coupledom
We were never refugees: migrants and citizens in the postcolonial state
War and peace: Pakistan and ethnic citizenship in Bollywood cinema
Provincializing the nation: state violence and transnational belongings in the diaspora.

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