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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
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- Rok vydania
- 2017
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- Titul
- When I Hit You
- Podtitul
- Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Meena Kandasamy
- Vydavateľ
- Atlantic Books
- Rok vydania
- 2017
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 249
- ISBN10
- 1786491265
- ISBN13
- 9781786491268
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Ženy, Súčasná literatúra, Feminizmus, India
- Hodnotenie
- 4,1 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.