Author: Anindya Raychaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190249765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal moment in time. Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on a direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways this event is remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed--and the narrator's role in this process. These stories also reflect on the themes of home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers within these public and private narratives. Crucially, Raychaudhuri is the first writer to use oral history in addressing the Bengal/Punjab partition as part of this same event, examining the memorial legacy in both the Bengali and Punjabi communities.
Narrating South Asian Partition
Author: Anindya Raychaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190249765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal moment in time. Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on a direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways this event is remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed--and the narrator's role in this process. These stories also reflect on the themes of home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers within these public and private narratives. Crucially, Raychaudhuri is the first writer to use oral history in addressing the Bengal/Punjab partition as part of this same event, examining the memorial legacy in both the Bengali and Punjabi communities.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190249765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal moment in time. Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on a direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways this event is remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed--and the narrator's role in this process. These stories also reflect on the themes of home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers within these public and private narratives. Crucially, Raychaudhuri is the first writer to use oral history in addressing the Bengal/Punjab partition as part of this same event, examining the memorial legacy in both the Bengali and Punjabi communities.
Narrating Partition
Author: Sukrita Paul Kumar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This volume delves into various Partition narratives both well-known novels and short fiction in search of critical tools and lenses specific to the growing body of Partition literature. The author engages with Partition literature in the context of various issues such as violence against women, memory, the Urdu/Hindi divide, and the aftermath of the event.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This volume delves into various Partition narratives both well-known novels and short fiction in search of critical tools and lenses specific to the growing body of Partition literature. The author engages with Partition literature in the context of various issues such as violence against women, memory, the Urdu/Hindi divide, and the aftermath of the event.
South Asian Partition Fiction in English
Author: Rituparna Roy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089642455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Dit boek is een literaire studie naar Zuid-Aziatische Engelstalige fictie vanaf midden jaren vijftig tot de late jaren tachtig over de afscheiding van Pakistan en Bangladesh van India, oftewel de Partitie. Het is een fascinerend verhaal over het ontstaan van een nieuw literair genre. Romanschrijvers van verschillende generaties geven hun kijk op dit beslissende moment in de Zuid-Aziatische geschiedenis. In het begin beschreven zij de catastrofe, later werd er meer getheoretiseerd. Aan de hand van zes romans, van onder andere Salman Rushdie, laat Roy zien welke factoren bepalend zijn geweest voor de grote thema's en verhaallijnen in deze romans.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089642455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Dit boek is een literaire studie naar Zuid-Aziatische Engelstalige fictie vanaf midden jaren vijftig tot de late jaren tachtig over de afscheiding van Pakistan en Bangladesh van India, oftewel de Partitie. Het is een fascinerend verhaal over het ontstaan van een nieuw literair genre. Romanschrijvers van verschillende generaties geven hun kijk op dit beslissende moment in de Zuid-Aziatische geschiedenis. In het begin beschreven zij de catastrofe, later werd er meer getheoretiseerd. Aan de hand van zes romans, van onder andere Salman Rushdie, laat Roy zien welke factoren bepalend zijn geweest voor de grote thema's en verhaallijnen in deze romans.
Writing Partition
Author: Bodh Prakash
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131719329
Category : Hindi literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131719329
Category : Hindi literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Partitioned Lives
Author: Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131714164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131714164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.
Witnessing Partition
Author: Tarun K. Saint
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429560001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429560001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
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.
The Postcolonial Short Story
Author: Maggie Awadalla
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137292083
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137292083
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
Narrating India
Author: I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Papers presented at the National Seminar on the Novel in Search of the Nation, held at New Delhi in February 1999.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Papers presented at the National Seminar on the Novel in Search of the Nation, held at New Delhi in February 1999.
Partition’s First Generation
Author: Amber H. Abbas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350142689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO), that became the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 1920 drew the Muslim elite into its orbit and was a key site of a distinctively Muslim nationalism. Located in New Dehli, the historic centre of Muslim rule, it was home to many leading intellectuals and reformers in the years leading up to Indian independence. During partition it was a hub of pro-Pakistan activism. The graduates who came of age during the anti-colonial struggle in India settled throughout the subcontinent after the Partition. They carried with them the particular experiences, values and histories that had defined their lives as Aligarh students in a self-consciously Muslim environment, surrounded by a non-Muslim majority. This new archive of oral history narratives from seventy former AMU students reveals histories of partition as yet unheard. In contrast to existing studies, these stories lead across the boundaries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Partition in AMU is not defined by international borders and migrations but by alienation from the safety of familiar places. The book reframes Partition to draw attention to the ways individuals experienced ongoing changes associated with “partitioning”-the process through which familiar spaces and places became strange and sometimes threatening-and they highlight specific, never-before-studied sites of disturbance distant from the borders.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350142689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO), that became the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 1920 drew the Muslim elite into its orbit and was a key site of a distinctively Muslim nationalism. Located in New Dehli, the historic centre of Muslim rule, it was home to many leading intellectuals and reformers in the years leading up to Indian independence. During partition it was a hub of pro-Pakistan activism. The graduates who came of age during the anti-colonial struggle in India settled throughout the subcontinent after the Partition. They carried with them the particular experiences, values and histories that had defined their lives as Aligarh students in a self-consciously Muslim environment, surrounded by a non-Muslim majority. This new archive of oral history narratives from seventy former AMU students reveals histories of partition as yet unheard. In contrast to existing studies, these stories lead across the boundaries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Partition in AMU is not defined by international borders and migrations but by alienation from the safety of familiar places. The book reframes Partition to draw attention to the ways individuals experienced ongoing changes associated with “partitioning”-the process through which familiar spaces and places became strange and sometimes threatening-and they highlight specific, never-before-studied sites of disturbance distant from the borders.
Partitions
Author: Stefano Bianchini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276540
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. These innovative volumes use comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276540
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. These innovative volumes use comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies.