violence and body politics in South Asian partition literature
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2019
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Navarro-Tejero, Antonia
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, oorlog en vrede, fysiek geweld, borsten, India, Pakistan, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Taking Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man/Cracking India (1988) as a narrative example of the importance of women’s point of view and as central figures of the violent conflict between India and Pakistan after the newly created border in 1947. The author examines though the book the symbol of the female breasts, which were mutilated and carved in this period of violent times.