ABSTRACT
The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation.
It maps the diverse engagements with women’s experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives, life writing and memoirs, cultural discourses, and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body, women and the national identity, violence against women in Indian Partition narratives, and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory, identity, and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind women’s displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender, migration, and marginalization.
This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, gender studies, conflict studies, development studies, South Asian studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies, and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|154 pages
Critical essays
chapter 1|10 pages
Interconnected lives, disrupted realities
chapter 2|11 pages
“A language without words”
chapter 3|15 pages
Displacement, family sagas, and a feminist gaze
chapter 4|12 pages
Prison as a paradigm of displacement
chapter 7|10 pages
Nation, female body, and sexuality
chapter 9|11 pages
Women, violence, displacement
chapter 10|14 pages
Singing in exile
chapter 11|17 pages
The post-Independence rehabilitation displacement
chapter 12|15 pages
“Please, dear Zari, tell my story!”
part II|42 pages
Life writings and memoirs