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When I hit you, or, A portrait of the writer as a young wife

Kandasamy, Meena2017
Books, Manuscripts
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.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2017.
Collation:
249 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781786491268 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92G
LC class:
PR9499.4.K363
Local class:
FAF
Language:
English
BRN:
1889676
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