2015/07/03 by Jacque Micieli‐Voutsinas · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #South Asian Studies and Conflicts #South Asian Studies and Diaspora #South Asian Cinema and Culture
paper · doi:10.1080/2373566x.2015.1103196
openalex publication_date 2015/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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.