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The Indian Partition in Literature and Films - History, Politics, and Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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The Indian Partition in Literature and Films - History, Politics, and Aesthetics (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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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.
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