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1. Cracking the nation: Gender, minorities, and agency in Bapsi Sidhwa's `Cracking India'.

Author

Didur, Jill

Subjects
*WOMEN in literature, *LITERATURE & society, *PAKISTANI literature, *CRITICISM
Abstract

Explores the conflict between the structures of meaning that characterize conservative-nationalist discourse and fictional potrayals of a young Parsi girl and her nanny's everyday experience in Bapsi Sidhwa's novel `Cracking India.' Practice of making women as ground in patriarchal debates over community and state identity; Gendered subject, agency, and Pakistan's national imaginary.

Published
1998

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