| Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory Subjects: Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; India -- History -- Partition 1947 -- In literature; Partition Territorial in literature; Gender identity in literature; Violence in literature; Nationalism in literature; Women in liter; Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women's accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Didur Alison Jill : Jill Didur is an associate professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. |