What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Furthermore, I argue, the woman's dismembered, re-membered body in the text allegorizes the processes of disfigurement through which women's bodies are routinely produced as “dead metaphors” for patriarchal honor as well as the project of remembering violence differently, which the novel itself endorses. My analysis shows how the text's layering of perspectives around this body encodes a feminist hermeneutics of doubt and models a critical practice of “reading between the lines” in order to recover the violence suppressed in the text of patriarchal memory. I begin with Baldwin's exploration of the embodied character of Sikh subject-formation in a pre-Partition border community, and close in, like the novel itself, on a key moment of embodied violence: the cutting up and reassembling of a woman's body, whose manner of death is later reconstructed by her male family members, in the presence of a female family member.

While feminist historiographies have restored Partition survivors' memories of violence to the historical archive, Baldwin's novel explicitly foregrounds the role of gendered bodies in and as the archive of communal memories of violence. OL25910W Page_number_confidence 69.25 Pages 506 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.8 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210227102601 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 571 Scandate 20210221011817 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780385496049 Tts_version 4.This article explores how Shauna Singh Baldwin's novel What the Body Remembers builds on Partition feminist historiography in order to exhume and retell the story of family violence against women during India's Partition, intended to “save their honor” from rioting mobs. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:00:45 Boxid IA40065124 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin