Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present
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An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence--in wars of direct and indirect conquest--marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization. The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11 mobilizations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9381017875
ISBN13:9789381017876
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:Zubaan Books
Length:436 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"
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