1st Edition
Gender and Nationalism Perspectives on Partition Fiction and Cinema
Preface by Sukrita Paul Kumar
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Historical Perspectives on the Partition
2. Gender and Nationalism
3. Fractured Vision of the Nation
4. Territorial Conceptualization: Woman and Nation in the Short story of the Partition
5. Walk across the border: Questioning stereotypes in Partition Cinema
Conclusion
Postscript
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Gauri Mishra is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi, India. She has been teaching English for the past three decades. Her research interests include Partition studies, women’s writing and film studies. She is the editor of the anthology Language through Literature (with Ranjana Kaul and Brati Biswas, 2016) and has coauthored (with Anu Satyal and Anuradha Bawa, 2020) Innovating Placements: Challenges and Changing Dynamics with the Industry which was the culmination of her Innovation project under the aegis of the University of Delhi. She has a poetry collection titled Reminiscences to her credit as well.
