Violent belongingspartition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India
820.9 DAI
Daiya, Kavita
V115
Violent belongings partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India
/ Kavita Daiya.
. — Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008..
xi, 260 p. ill. 24 cm.
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.
9781592137435 :1592137431 :
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.
India--History--Influence.--Partition, 1947 South Asia--Ethnic relations.
