Partition Literature and Cinema

Partition Literature and Cinema PDF Author: Jaydip Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000067548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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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.

Partition Literature and Cinema

Partition Literature and Cinema PDF Author: Jaydip Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000067548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
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.

The Indian Partition in Literature and Films

The Indian Partition in Literature and Films PDF Author: Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317669940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is only in the last few decades that literary critics and film scholars have begun to analyse the work. The emerging critical scholarship on the Partition and its aftermath has deepened our understanding of the relationship between historical trauma, collective memory, and cultural processes, and this book provides critical readings of literary and cinematic texts on the impact of the Partition both in the Punjab and in Bengal. The collection assembles studies on Anglophone writings with those on the largely unexplored vernacular works, and those which have rarely found a place in discussions on the Partition. It looks at representations of women’s experiences of gendered violence in the Partition riots, and how literary texts have filled in the lack of the ‘human dimension’ in Partition histories. The book goes on to highlight how the memory of the Partition is preserved, and how the creative arts’ relation to public memory and its place within the public sphere has changed through time. Collectively, the essays present a nuanced understanding of how the experience of violence, displacement, and trauma shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in the Indian subcontinent. Mapping the diverse topographies of Partition-related uncertainties and covering both well-known and lesser-known texts on the Partition, this book will be a useful contribution to studies of South Asian History, Asian Literature and Asian Film.

Narrating South Asian Partition

Narrating South Asian Partition PDF Author: Anindya Raychaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190249749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
'Narrating Partition' features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on their 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 in which the events of partition are remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed and the themes (home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers) that are recycled in the narration.

Evacuee Cinema

Evacuee Cinema PDF Author: Salma Siddique
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009151207
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian history and popular culture. It examines partition's impact on cultural production, based on hard to access archives and collections situated in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and the United States.

Indian Literature and Popular Cinema

Indian Literature and Popular Cinema PDF Author: Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134062559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.

Partition

Partition PDF Author: Farzana S. Ali
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788171920945
Category : Forced migration
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia

Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia PDF Author: Nukhbah Taj Langah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000422577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.

Popular Literature

Popular Literature PDF Author: Rupayan Mukherjee
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3838216660
Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. The essays are inclined to question the idea of 'the Canon' and re-consider the divide between the canonical and the popular. As such, besides engaging in a serious critical reading of typical popular literary texts like The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book also considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre and Frankenstein. It will be of interest to young scholars and readers of popular literature, science fiction, detective fiction, genre studies, and culture studies. The volume's contributors are: Anisha Ghosh, Arnab Dasgupta, Goutam Karmakar, Jaya Sarkar, Jaydip Sarkar, Madhuparna Mitra Guha, Mandika Sinha, Mitarik Barma, Pinaki Roy, Puja Chakraborty, Rajadipta Roy, Rupayan Mukherjee, Shirsendu Mondal, Shubham Dey.

Violent Belongings

Violent Belongings PDF Author: Kavita Daiya
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 159213744X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

The Performance of Nationalism

The Performance of Nationalism PDF Author: Jisha Menon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Jisha Menon's book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan.