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
