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Constituting the exception: Law, literature and the state of emergency in postcolonial India (Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, O. V. Vijayan).

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Title/Author:	Constituting the exception: Law, literature and the state of emergency in postcolonial India (Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, O. V. Vijayan).
Author:	Kasibhatla, Jaya Nandita.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2223.
Notes:	Supervisors: Ian Baucom; Wahneema Lubiano.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3181500
ISBN:	0542210649

Constituting the exception: Law, literature and the state of emergency in postcolonial India (Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, O. V. Vijayan).
Kasibhatla, Jaya Nandita.

Constituting the exception: Law, literature and the state of emergency in postcolonial India (Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, O. V. Vijayan). - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2223.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2005.

Constitutions have a history of authorizing their own undoing. Nearly every modern democratic constitution contains within it the power to suspend the normal constitutional order in the event of a security crisis defined as a 'State of Emergency.' This dissertation focuses on the Indian experience of a constitutionally defined "state of emergency," that took place from 1975--1977. Drawing from sources such as the Indian Constitution, literature, political theory, ethnography and history, Constituting the Exception argues that constitutional emergency, rather than being a temporary crisis, is a constitutive exception that defines the postcolonial citizen as a figure that can only come into being once absolute security has been established.

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Literature, Asian.

Constituting the exception: Law, literature and the state of emergency in postcolonial India (Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, O. V. Vijayan).
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520 # $a I begin with an analysis of Partition as the formative state of crisis that the Indian state would memorialize through the construct of emergency, reading dismemberment as a trope for the process of becoming-citizen in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers (1999) and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India (1991). In the second chapter, I analyze the arguments over the incorporation of the emergency provisions in the Indian Constitution made in the Constituent Assembly Debates (1946--1949). The third chapter of the dissertation builds on this genealogy of emergency to trace the changes made to the Indian Constitution under emergency, from 1950 to 1977. I conclude with a reading of three major literary representations of emergency that register and rework the ambivalent conception of the citizen articulated under the Indian Constitution. The texts I consider, (Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance and O. V. Vijayan's The Saga of Dharmapuri and his short-story collection, After the Hanging) figure the citizen as a disintegrating body in response to the gradual erosion of rights regimes and the expansion of the "state of emergency" from the exception to the rule.
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