Mehr zum Buch
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.
Buchkauf
When I Hit You, Meena Kandasamy
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2017
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
Hier könnte deine Bewertung stehen.
- Titel
- When I Hit You
- Untertitel
- Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Meena Kandasamy
- Verlag
- Atlantic Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2017
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 249
- ISBN10
- 1786491265
- ISBN13
- 9781786491268
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Frauen, Feminismus, Indien
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.