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Violent belongings: partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Yoda press New Delhi, 2013Description: xi, 260 pages: illustrations; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789380403021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.935 DAI
Summary: "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."
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad General General Book 820.93585/DAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SIBMH-B-1572

"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."

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