Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, "Violent Belongings" examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal...