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Informationen zum Autor By Jill Didur Klappentext Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women’s accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Zusammenfassung Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women's accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Unsettling Partition ‘Making Men for the India of Tomorrow’? Gender and Nationalist Discourse in South Asia Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India’s Partition Cracking the Nation: Memory, Minorities, and the Ends of Narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India A Heart Divided: Education, Romance, and the Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column At a Loss for Words: Reading the Silence in South Asian Women’s Partition Narratives Conclusion: Recovering the Nation? Appendix A Notes Bibliography Index
