{"product_id":"unsettling-partition-jill-didur-9780802079978","title":"Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory","description":"\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 attempt to seek out a 'hidden history' of this time, Didur examines how the literariness of Partition narratives undermines this possibility. \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Partitions\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Didur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802079970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802079978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 106","brand":"Jill Didur","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134100735,"sku":"9780802079978","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8f4a509-cad8-45dd-aec8-aaf242f74ed7.jpg?v=1768673218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsettling-partition-jill-didur-9780802079978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}