What the Nation Re-members

Resisting Victim Nationalism in Partition Memorial Project

Bibliographic Data

ID13100745
AuthorsJacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Jacque Micieli‐Voutsinas (Skidmore College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume1
Issue2
Pages398-413
Publication date2015-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2015.1103196
OpenAlexW2281733213
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This article theorizes artistic interventions that resist victim nationalism and hegemonic practices of trauma and memory. Engaging the work of feminist installation artist Pritika Chowdhry and her ongoing series Partition Memorial Project, I trace the artist's ability to dislodge nationalist histories of India's Partition. Specifically, I argue that Chowdhry's aestheticization of the female body is central to disrupting nationalist narratives of trauma and memory and their corresponding tropes of victimized nationhood and violated femininity

Aesthetics · Art · Femininity · Hegemony · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Partition (number theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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