1947, Partition Violence and Nationalism in the Indian Public Sphere
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Genders: Presenting Innovative Work, in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 43
- Creator
- Daya, Kavita
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, gender, feminisme, nationalisme, kolonialisme, India, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Much of the current scholarship on the vexed relationship between nationalism and gender, especially feminist cultural criticism and the postcolonial critique of nationalist discourses, has illuminated how women are constructed as signs and symbols of the nation or ethnic/cultural community in nationalism. As such, women's bodies often begin to bear the symbolic burden. However, in the process of examining the gendering of nationalism, these critiques translate the relation between 'gender' and nation, as one between 'woman' and nation. To complicate the equation of 'gender' and 'woman,' to offer a fuller account of the gendering of nationalism, author wants to argue that it is imperative to examine the construction of both masculinity and femininity together in the articulation of cultural and national belonging in public and political discourse.