Deepti Misri
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038853
- eISBN:
- 9780252096815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038853.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This introductory chapter describes a cultural history of violence associated with widely divergent ideas of India after 1947—an India post-British Raj, post-Partition, post-Independence, and ...
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This introductory chapter describes a cultural history of violence associated with widely divergent ideas of India after 1947—an India post-British Raj, post-Partition, post-Independence, and postcolonial. Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and counterinsurgent state violence have marked the postcolonial Indian nation-state since its very inception, often intersecting with prevailing forms of gendered violence within communities. These forms of violence have frequently indexed a serious disjoint between communally and regionally specific ideas of nationhood on the one hand, and the politically bounded, militarily enforced entity known as “India” on the other. In addition, the book is part of a wider feminist undertaking to critically examine how violence is conceptualized in the many discourses that shape public consciousness in the Indian subcontinent and its diasporic extensions.Less
This introductory chapter describes a cultural history of violence associated with widely divergent ideas of India after 1947—an India post-British Raj, post-Partition, post-Independence, and postcolonial. Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and counterinsurgent state violence have marked the postcolonial Indian nation-state since its very inception, often intersecting with prevailing forms of gendered violence within communities. These forms of violence have frequently indexed a serious disjoint between communally and regionally specific ideas of nationhood on the one hand, and the politically bounded, militarily enforced entity known as “India” on the other. In addition, the book is part of a wider feminist undertaking to critically examine how violence is conceptualized in the many discourses that shape public consciousness in the Indian subcontinent and its diasporic extensions.
Deepti Misri
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038853
- eISBN:
- 9780252096815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038853.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter examines gendered violence against men, which, unlike other violations such as rape, abduction, and looting, has been largely forgotten in popular memorializations of Partition. It ...
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This chapter examines gendered violence against men, which, unlike other violations such as rape, abduction, and looting, has been largely forgotten in popular memorializations of Partition. It focuses mainly on writer Saadat Hasan Manto's fictional response to the violence of Partition, Black Marginalia (1948), exploring the techniques by which he narrowly focuses the reader's gaze on the forms of male-on-male violence and evidentiary procedures used by warring religious mobs in the Partition riot. However, despite Manto's brilliant deconstruction of the logic of the communal riot, the chapter questions some aspects of his secular critique of such violence, particularly in the melodramatic tale “Mozail,” where the Sikh male figure's investments in the markers of his faith are presented merely as dogmatic and superficial.Less
This chapter examines gendered violence against men, which, unlike other violations such as rape, abduction, and looting, has been largely forgotten in popular memorializations of Partition. It focuses mainly on writer Saadat Hasan Manto's fictional response to the violence of Partition, Black Marginalia (1948), exploring the techniques by which he narrowly focuses the reader's gaze on the forms of male-on-male violence and evidentiary procedures used by warring religious mobs in the Partition riot. However, despite Manto's brilliant deconstruction of the logic of the communal riot, the chapter questions some aspects of his secular critique of such violence, particularly in the melodramatic tale “Mozail,” where the Sikh male figure's investments in the markers of his faith are presented merely as dogmatic and superficial.
Madhavi Menon
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816695904
- eISBN:
- 9781452953656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816695904.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Universalism is the political thing that makes particulars fail to cohere; universalism as the idea that spurs longing across borders; universalism as the notion that allows intellectual ferment: ...
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Universalism is the political thing that makes particulars fail to cohere; universalism as the idea that spurs longing across borders; universalism as the notion that allows intellectual ferment: these are the domains of the queer. The universalism of noncohering particulars is queer, then, because it shows up the futility of using partition as a bulwark against the migration of peoples, ideas, and desires. A queer universalism does not belong anywhere, and it is owned by no one.Less
Universalism is the political thing that makes particulars fail to cohere; universalism as the idea that spurs longing across borders; universalism as the notion that allows intellectual ferment: these are the domains of the queer. The universalism of noncohering particulars is queer, then, because it shows up the futility of using partition as a bulwark against the migration of peoples, ideas, and desires. A queer universalism does not belong anywhere, and it is owned by no one.
