The partition narratives of South Asian authors are testimony to the fact that women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds were the greatest victims of the newly created border between India and Pakistan in 1947. Women’s bodies were abducted, stripped naked, raped, mutilated (their breasts cut off), carved with religious symbols and murdered to be sent in train wagons to the “other” side of the border. 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, we will examine the symbol of the female breasts, following Judith Butler’s and Michel Foucault’s theories on power and governmentality, framed in the rhetoric of M...
The geopolitical history of India’s Northeast replicates the history of the struggle of the ethnic c...
The article aims to portray the traumas and sufferings of female war survivors in pre and post-1971 ...
This paper on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man intends to undertake a comprehensive investigation of var...
The partition narratives of South Asian authors are testimony to the fact that women of all ethnic a...
The 1947 Partition of British India marked the birth of two new nations and yet, at the same time, i...
This paper focuses on the issue of violence against women during the communal riots that followed th...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
As we reckon with the #MeToo movement, the gender-based violence that occurred during the 1947 Parti...
The literary, historical, political and cultural stories of the partition which have been created by...
Partition literatures have focused on the identity of women and the exploitation. Partition has face...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
This study presents an analysis of the trauma and sacrifice of the female body within the genre of S...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
The partition of India, 1947, witnessed the migration of over twelve million people and communal vio...
In this dissertation, I focus on literary representations of the partition of British India in 1947 ...
The geopolitical history of India’s Northeast replicates the history of the struggle of the ethnic c...
The article aims to portray the traumas and sufferings of female war survivors in pre and post-1971 ...
This paper on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man intends to undertake a comprehensive investigation of var...
The partition narratives of South Asian authors are testimony to the fact that women of all ethnic a...
The 1947 Partition of British India marked the birth of two new nations and yet, at the same time, i...
This paper focuses on the issue of violence against women during the communal riots that followed th...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
As we reckon with the #MeToo movement, the gender-based violence that occurred during the 1947 Parti...
The literary, historical, political and cultural stories of the partition which have been created by...
Partition literatures have focused on the identity of women and the exploitation. Partition has face...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
This study presents an analysis of the trauma and sacrifice of the female body within the genre of S...
The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births...
The partition of India, 1947, witnessed the migration of over twelve million people and communal vio...
In this dissertation, I focus on literary representations of the partition of British India in 1947 ...
The geopolitical history of India’s Northeast replicates the history of the struggle of the ethnic c...
The article aims to portray the traumas and sufferings of female war survivors in pre and post-1971 ...
This paper on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man intends to undertake a comprehensive investigation of var...