Body, Bones, and All
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uddipana Goswami (0000-0002-5937-0992, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-89 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15366936-8913118 |
| OpenAlex | W3176142965 |
| Language | EN |
A reflection on the different forms that violence against women takes in militarized societies like that in Assam in Northeast India. A young girl living with an abusive father is married off to an abusive husband. Like other women living with quotidian violence, she devises coping mechanisms: often the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. The unbearable burden of a life abused (and its grim ending) can be made bearable only through recourse in the unreal and the magical
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Fantasy · Girl · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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