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Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. Smart, fierce and courageous When I Hit You is a dissection of what love meant, means and will come to mean when trust is undermined by violence; a brilliant, throat-tightening feminist discourse on battered faces and bruised male egos; and a scathing portrait of traditional wedlock in modern India.
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When I Hit You, Meena Kandasamy
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
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- Título
- When I Hit You
- Subtítulo
- Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Meena Kandasamy
- Editorial
- Atlantic Books
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 249
- ISBN10
- 1786491265
- ISBN13
- 9781786491268
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Feminismo, India
- Calificación
- 4,1 de 5
- Descripción
- Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. Smart, fierce and courageous When I Hit You is a dissection of what love meant, means and will come to mean when trust is undermined by violence; a brilliant, throat-tightening feminist discourse on battered faces and bruised male egos; and a scathing portrait of traditional wedlock in modern India.