When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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Author: Meena Kandasamy
Categories: English , Poetry , Fiction , Feminism
Pages: 256
Publisher: local
Cover: Softcover
Book description :
Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.
At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
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When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)
Author: Meena Kandasamy
Categories: English , Poetry , Fiction , Feminism
Pages: 256
Publisher: local
Cover: Softcover
Book description :
Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.
At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
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(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)
Author: Meena Kandasamy
Categories: English , Poetry , Fiction , Feminism
Pages: 256
Publisher: local
Cover: Softcover
Book description :
Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.
At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
