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Author:

Didur, Jill, 1965-

Title:

Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory / Jill Didur.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Violence in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Women in literature.
India--History--Partition, 1947.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

9780802079978
9780802079978 (alk. paper)
0802079970 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61300724

LCCN:

2006274286

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)