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020 $a9781592137435 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1592137431 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aDaiya, Kavita,$d1970-
245 10 $aViolent belongings :$bpartition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India /$cKavita Daiya.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 260 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index.
505 0 $aTrain 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.
520 1 $a"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."--Jacket.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$yPartition, 1947$xInfluence.
650 0 $aGroup identity$zSouth Asia.
650 0 $aGender identity$zSouth Asia.
650 0 $aEthnic relations$zSouth Asia.
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xEthnic relations.
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