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- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Unsettling Partition 1
- 1. ‘Making Men for the India of Tomorrow’? Gender and Nationalist Discourse in South Asia 21
- 2. Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India’s Partition 42
- 3. Cracking the Nation: Memory, Minorities, and the Ends of Narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India 67
- 4. A Heart Divided: Education, Romance, and the Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column 94
- 5. At a Loss for Words: Reading the Silence in South Asian Women’s Partition Narratives 125
- Conclusion: Recovering the Nation? 157
- Appendix A 163
- Notes 165
- Bibliography 181
- Index 197
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Unsettling Partition 1
- 1. ‘Making Men for the India of Tomorrow’? Gender and Nationalist Discourse in South Asia 21
- 2. Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India’s Partition 42
- 3. Cracking the Nation: Memory, Minorities, and the Ends of Narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India 67
- 4. A Heart Divided: Education, Romance, and the Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column 94
- 5. At a Loss for Words: Reading the Silence in South Asian Women’s Partition Narratives 125
- Conclusion: Recovering the Nation? 157
- Appendix A 163
- Notes 165
- Bibliography 181
- Index 197