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Unsettling partition : (Record no. 4056)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	02262nam a2200181 a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	ASIN0802079970
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20190522121657.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	130406s2006 xxu eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0802079970 (hardcover)
Terms of availability	$59.00
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780802079978 (hardcover)
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Didur, Jill.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Unsettling partition :
Remainder of title	literature, gender, memory /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Jill Didur.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	[S.l.] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	220 p. ;
Dimensions	24 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	The 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. Diverse 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. Unsettling Partition 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. Rather than attempt to seek out a 'hidden history' of this time, Didur examines how the literariness of Partition narratives undermines this possibility. Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women's accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition (sexual assault, abduction, displacement from their families) as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Didur argues that these silences and ambiguities in women's stories should not be resolved, accounted for, translated, or recovered but understood as a critique of the project of patriarchal modernity.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Source of classification or shelving scheme	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Date last checked out	Price effective from	Koha item type
		Dewey Decimal Classification				Air University Central Library Islamabad	Air University Central Library Islamabad		04/06/2013	2	823.9140995422 DID	P8968	11/07/2020	10/09/2020	04/06/2013	Book