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Name of the book:
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Author:
Meena Kandasamy
Genre:
Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Year of Publication:
2017
Number of Pages:
256
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.
Tags:
India, Feminism, Contemporary
Status:
Available
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