{"product_id":"unsettling-partition-9781442615052","title":"Unsettling Partition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia.  The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction and sexual assault of over 75,000 women) can be found in fictional, historical, autobiographical, and recent scholarly works.  \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Partition\u003c\/i\u003e examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent women's experiences of the Partition.  Counter to the move for 'recovery' that informs some historical research on testimony and fictional representations of women's Partition experiences, Jill Didur argues for an attentiveness to the literary qualities of women's narratives that interrogate and unsettle monolithic accounts of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than att\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359424938327,"sku":"9781442615052","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442615052.jpg?v=1754124608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unsettling-partition-9781442615052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}