{"product_id":"beyond-partition-deepti-misri-9780252038853","title":"Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India","description":"Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phenomena frequently intersect with prevailing forms of gendered violence complicated by caste, religion, regional identity, and class within communities. \u003cp\u003eDeepti Misri shows how Partition began a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of \"\"India\"\" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other. She moves beyond that formative national event, however, in order to examine other forms of gendered violence in the postcolonial life of the nation, including custodial rape, public stripping, deturbanning, and enforced disappearances. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against women and men, Misri establishes that cultural expressions do not just follow violence but determine its very contours, and interrogates the gendered scripts underwriting the violence originating in the contested visions of what \"\"India\"\" means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbitious and ranging across disciplines, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Partition\u003c\/i\u003e offers both an overview of and nuanced new perspectives on the ways caste, identity, and class complicate representations of violence, and how such representations shape our understandings of both violence and India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deepti Misri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252038851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252038853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.36w x 0.86d","brand":"Deepti Misri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086443065599,"sku":"9780252038853","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04b21887-9c97-4255-93a1-19d5d34d83d6.jpg?v=1769094698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-partition-deepti-misri-9780252038853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}