Mixed Marriage
Anxieties of Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12318198 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zakia Pathak (University of Delhi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-483 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indian Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0971-5215 • E-ISSN: 0973-0672 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0971521514540712 |
| OpenAlex | W2321097416 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
An absorbing story is narrated by the child of a mixed marriage, Hindu and Muslim, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. At once creative and critical, the memoir is innovatively structured. In its ex-centricity to established forms and styles it seeks to represent substantially and formally the disjunctivity of memory, the flux of experience and everyday living, and the incertitude of meaning. Through a muddle of anecdotes, conversations and dialogues with the self, the minority subject is produced as always in process
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Hinduism · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Memoir · Self · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |