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Daiya, Kavita,

Violent belongings: partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India. - New Delhi, Yoda press 2013 - xi, 260 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.

"Violent Belongings is about the relation between culture and violence in the modern world, exploring contemporary ethnic and gendered violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture."

ISBN: 9789380403021

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1947
American literature South Asian American authors Criticism and interpretation American literature
South Asian authors History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Englisch
English literature South Asian authors
English literature South Asian authors History and criticism
Ethnic relations
Gender identity
Gender identity South Asia
Group identity
Group identity South Asia
History India
India History Partition, 1947
India History Partition, 1947 Influence
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures
Motion pictures India
South Asia
South Asia Ethnic relation

Dewey Class. No.: 820.935 / DAI