When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife book by Meena Kandasamy
By Meena KandasamySeduced 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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- Paperback
- 249 pages
- English
- 1786491265
- 9781786491268
About Meena Kandasamy
described by the independent as a 'one-woman, agit-prop literary-political movement', meena kandasamy is a poet, writer, translator, anti-caste activist an Read More about Meena Kandasamy
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