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I hope the following title will be of interest to you:
Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
By Kavita Daiya, George Washington University in Washington, DC
"[Daiya's] analysis takes up varied representations of gendered violence
in Bollywood and popular fiction, then carries the analysis of gendered
national identity into the diaspora and refugee displacement in the
postcolonial public sphere. Summing Up: Recommended." -Choice
"Daiya's study of the Partition, within the parameters that she defines,
is valuable for the light it sheds on a significant moment of
subcontinental history that has important repercussions for the
geopolitics of today. Violent Belongings provides a significant
intervention in U.S. ethnic studies and South Asia area studies by
showing how even the most localized traumas can have far-reaching
impact. The discussion of film and literature is rich and
thought-provoking, and the moment is ripe for an enlarging of national
histories to consider their implications on a global stage."-Rajini
Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of The World
Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
"Violent Belongings is a nuanced and historicized study of the
contentious afterlife of the Partition in the cultural politics of the
subcontinent and its diaspora. Daiya deftly illuminates how quotidian
categories such as citizenship, belonging and community are profoundly
inflected by the narrative legacies of the stained dawn of
1947."-Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, and author of Literary
Radicalism in India
"Daiya has argued persuasively and perceptively for the combination of
literary and cinematic texts, deftly combining these with social history
and journalism to produce informed, contextualized readings of the
cultural moment. Engagingly written, covering a longish (fifty-year)
history of literary and film texts with surprising contextual detail,
Violent Belongings embraces a dauntingly sophisticated theoretical
repertoire which Daiya handles with confidence, tact, and common sense."
-Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University
Temple University Press
Sept 2008 280pp £42.00 HB: 9781592137435
(http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/isbn/9781592137435)
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