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Literature, gender and the trauma of Partition : the paradox of independence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge research on gender in Asia series ; 18.
Subjects:
Indic fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
India > History > Partition, 1947 > Literature and the Partition.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tainted liberty: women and the Partition
  • Midnight's children: inhabiting the postcolonial landscape
  • Teachers, train hawkers, sales-girls: women, work, and the family
  • The diminished man: the mythic and the mundane
  • Geographies of belonging: home and the persistence of memory
  • Recasting men: constructing the model male citizen
  • Identity lessons: trauma and children's education in difference
  • Conclusion.