Postmemory And The Partition Of India
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| Author | : Anjali Roy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-07-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0429017367 |
This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors’ narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors’ journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.
| Author | : Shuchi Kapila |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031433971 |
| Author | : Sugata Bose |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780415307871 |
A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region. This comprehensive study includes detailed discussions of: the structure and ideology of the British raj; the meaning of subaltern resistance; the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste class, community and gender; and the state and economy, society and politics of post-colonial South Asia The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and adiscussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.
| Author | : Urvashi Butalia |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2015-02-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 935118949X |
The dark legacies of partition have cast a long shadow on the lives of people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The borders that were drawn in 1947, and redrawn in 1971, divided not only nations and histories but also families and friends. The essays in this volume explore new ground in Partition research, looking into areas such as art, literature, migration, and notions of ‘foreignness’ and ‘belonging’. It brings focus to hitherto unaddressed areas of partition such as the northeast and Ladakh.
| Author | : Jaydip Sarkar |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000067548 |
This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts – written and visual – including Train to Pakistan, "Toba Tek Singh", Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.
| Author | : Ananya Jahanara Kabir |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Bangladesh |
| ISBN | : 9788188965779 |
"Placing the historical ruptures of India's partition in 1947 and the breakup of Pakistan in 1971 within a single frame, this book challenges the reader to look beyond the easy assumptions of the post-partition selves constructed by nationalist paradigms, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. Deftly interweaving primary materials and personal memory with the inter-generational history of her divided family, the author spotlights the multiple silences, gaps and contestations of post-colonial South Asian national narratives to provide an alternative view of nation-building attempts that have been either maginalized or forgotten in the process of selective nationalist remembering."--Page 4 of cover.
| Author | : Veena Das |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0520247450 |
Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.
| Author | : Elspeth McInnes |
| Publisher | : Brill |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Interpersonal conflict |
| ISBN | : 9789004350809 |
War, rape, domestic violence, child sexual abuse and loss challenge all those affected to find ways to come to terms with and transcend their experience. This book strives to offer new understandings.
| Author | : Tarun K. Saint |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2019-08-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429560001 |
This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.
| Author | : Anita Desai |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618056804 |
Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
