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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Meena Kandasamy

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. To get started finding When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 249

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Release: 2017

ISBN: 1786491265

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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. To get started finding When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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