Subramanian, Shreerekha

Women writing violence: the novel and radical feminist imaginaries/ Shreerekha Subramanian. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE, 2012. - 1 online resource (xxxix, 269 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- 1 -- Specters of Public Massacre: Violence and the Collective in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- 2 -- Imagining Community in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones -- 3 -- Partition and the Woman's Body in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India -- 4 -- Beyond Cloisters of Domesticity: Tahmina Durrani's Kufr, Mridula Garg's Kathgulab, and Mahasweta Devi's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa -- 5 -- The Cracking of India in Amrita Pritam's Pinjar and Mohandas Nemishrai's Aaj Bazaar Band Hai -- Conclusion -- Notes to the Chapters -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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Social Science
Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Feminism and literature.