3 November
Radhika Mohanram:
Gender and the Indian Partition
DATE: 3 November
TIME: 12.30 – 2: 00 PM
WHERE: UTS Building 10 (235 Jones St, Ultimo), Level 5, Room 425
RSVP: Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au
Abstract: This paper firstly explores the relationship between trauma theory and postcolonial theory. Then, it maps the contours of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent. It pays particular importance to the reconstruction of gender during partition and considers the role of women caught up in partition violence within the trauma framework.
Radhika Mohanram teaches postcolonial cultural studies at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory in Cardiff University. She is the author of Black Body (Allen and Unwin and Minnesota), Imperial White (Minnesota) and Imperialism as Diaspora (forthcoming, LUP). She is currently running a pilot project on collecting memories of the South Asian partitions of 1947 and 1971 in South Wales.
